Paralegal / Legal Engineer

The role

This early-career legal professional will shape and build legal processes and tools. They will work on commercial legal matters including drafting and reviewing agreements under the supervision of lawyers.

What you will do

• Identify recurring legal bottlenecks and design better ways for the company to get legal support.
• Translate legal rules and approved playbooks into practical workflows, templates, structured guidance and automations.
• Build and improve legal workflows using Dust and other appropriate tools.
• Test workflows, gather feedback, document how they work and iterate.
• Build appropriate controls into processes including lawyer review points and escalation paths.
• Draft, review and prepare redlines for commercial agreements including NDAs, SaaS agreements, MSAs, order forms, DPAs, vendor contracts and partnership agreements.
• Support negotiation and deal execution with Sales, GTM and other teams.
• Help identify legal, privacy, data protection, security and AI-related issues in commercial matters.
• Conduct legal research and prepare issue summaries.
• Help create and improve templates, playbooks, legal knowledge resources and tools.

Required qualifications

• Legal training, such as a law degree, paralegal qualification or equivalent experience.
• Clear legal writing, research and issue-spotting skills.
• Interest in commercial law.
• Interest or experience in process design, automation, no-code or low-code tools, AI workflows or contract-management systems.
• Business-standard English.
• Willingness to travel to the US or Paris from time to time when required.

Nice to have

• Some experience in a paralegal, legal assistant, commercial contracts or legal operations role.
• Business-standard French is a strong advantage.

About the company

Dust empowers AI Operators at the world’s fastest-moving companies to rewire how work gets done. The company is backed by Sequoia and serves customers like Datadog, 1Password, Cursor, Clay, Vanta and Persona.