Wordsmith

Legal Engineer (Transformation)

Edinburgh. Posted 11 days ago

The role

Legal Engineers design, configure, and implement legal workflows inside the Wordsmith platform. You will work with customers to translate legal processes into structured workflows and AI-enabled automation.

What you will do

  • Lead implementation projects for new customers
  • Design workflows and automation tailored to each organisation
  • Configure the platform to support real legal use cases
  • Scope implementations for complex enterprise customers
  • Work with legal teams and Legal Ops leaders to understand operations
  • Translate legal processes into structured workflows and AI-enabled automation
  • Advise on best practices for implementing legal technology
  • Build integrations and connect Wordsmith to customers systems
  • Build agents, skills, automations and workflows
  • Act as the escalation point for technical issues and complex training questions

Required qualifications

  • Experience in legal tech, legal operations, or process transformation
  • Strong understanding of how in-house legal teams work
  • Ability to manage customer projects and guide stakeholders through change
  • Comfortable working across legal and technical domains
  • Technical enough to build integrations, agents and automations yourself
  • A fixer's instinct
  • Structured thinker
  • Strong communication skills and confidence working directly with customers

Nice to have

  • Prior Legal Engineering experience
  • Implementation or solutions consultants in SaaS (CLM / Legal Tech is a plus)
  • Legal Operations Professionals

About the company

Wordsmith is building the legal operating system for in-house teams. The company is backed by over $100M from Index Ventures, General Catalyst, Highland Europe and others.