Senior Talent Partner - Legal Engineering

The role

You will deliver bar-raising legal engineers each quarter. You will own a recruiting process, map legal talent, and assess legal judgment and technical aptitude.

What you will do

• Deliver bar-raising legal engineers each quarter
• Own a robust, fair and fast recruiting process
• Map legal talent across law firms, in-house teams, legal ops and legal tech
• Build pipelines before roles open
• Assess legal judgment, comfort with AI and data, and ability to work with customers and engineers
• Work with stakeholders on how the archetype of who we hire changes
• Report on your funnel every week and fix what the data shows

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting
• At least some exposure of hiring in legal
• Ability to get a deep understanding of a new role and/or new area quickly
• A track record of hires per quarter, offer acceptance, and hire performance
• Most of recent hires sourced by you
• Fluency with Ashby or a similar ATS
• Real use of AI in your own workflow

Nice to have

• Hired for a legal tech or AI company
• Hired hybrid roles that blend a profession with product or engineering
• A legal background yourself

About the company

Wordsmith is building the legal operations platform for in-house teams. The company aims to help legal teams move faster and reduce unnecessary external counsel spend.