Special Projects Lead (India-Based)

The role

The Special Projects Lead will own the motion from first conversation to live workflows. You will work with founders across sales, customer success, and go-to-market to shape the expansion playbook for India and beyond.

What you will do

• Meet with partners, senior counsel, and in-house legal teams to understand critical workflows
• Lead product demonstrations and translate field insights into cases for adoption
• Own deals end-to-end from first conversation through commercial close
• Drive customer success post-deployment to ensure product impact
• Lead training sessions, workflow design, and ongoing check-ins
• Represent August at conferences, industry events, and client sites
• Work with product and engineering teams to build field insights into August
• Scope new client opportunities across practice areas, firm sizes, and geographies

Required qualifications

• Significant experience at a tier 1 Indian law firm
• Exceeding 4 years of post-qualification experience
• Track record of navigating complex, multi-stakeholder relationships
• Strong commercial instincts
• Comfort working without a defined playbook
• Ability to communicate clearly across audiences
• Willingness and enthusiasm for significant travel

Nice to have

• Prior exposure to legal operations, legal tech, or professional services
• JD or legal industry background

Benefits

• Founding Impact: Shape not just your role but the company
• Uncapped Upside: Competitive base + commission, early equity ownership
• Top-tier Team: Work alongside people who move fast, think clearly, and care deeply
• Category-Defining Work: Help build the first true AI agents for the legal profession
• Fast Growth: Scale your career as we scale the company
• In-person in NYC: Collaborative, talent dense and high energy environment
• Global Reach: Our clients span 4 continents and use August in multiple languages and jurisdictions
• Frontier of Applied AI: August has access to proprietary data inaccessible to foundation model providers

About the company

August allows law firms to compound their expertise by building an autonomous organization of AI agents that run the firm's knowledge work. They partner closely with firms and grow alongside them through sharing revenue on agents and equity in the firms they transform.