Remote | Strategic Project Lead, J.D./Legal Expertise — $400,000–$550,000/year

Job description

We are sharing a full-time opportunity for an experienced legal professional with strong project leadership, legal-domain expertise, stakeholder management, data operations, and human-data workflow experience to lead complex initiatives supporting advanced AI organisations and legal-focused data projects.

The role combines legal expertise with end-to-end project execution. The successful candidate will translate ambiguous customer requirements into clear project specifications, design and improve legal-domain workflows, coordinate Operations and Legal subject-matter experts, manage delivery milestones, and maintain direct communication with senior stakeholders. A JD or equivalent law degree is required.

Key Responsibilities

Project & Legal Workflow Leadership

- Own complex projects from scoping through execution and final delivery

- Translate strategic objectives and customer requirements into structured project plans

- Define workstreams, milestones, dependencies, quality standards, and deliverables

- Design workflows for legal research, contract analysis, litigation, regulatory, and compliance-related tasks

- Resolve blockers quickly and maintain delivery momentum

Data Operations & Quality

- Design and refine legal-domain data pipelines and human-data workflows

- Coordinate expert-driven annotation, review, and evaluation processes

- Improve workflow efficiency, scalability, and operational reliability

- Establish quality-control and review procedures

- Identify bottlenecks and implement practical process improvements

Stakeholder & Team Management

- Work closely with attorneys, senior Legal experts, Operations teams, and project leads

- Own client communication across scope, quality, timing, progress, and risk

- Align contributors around clear responsibilities and execution expectations

- Provide concise updates, feedback, and next steps

- Support rapid deployment of expert teams for new project needs

AI & Human-Data Project Delivery

- Support projects involving AI training, evaluation, and human-generated legal data

- Translate customer objectives into scalable operational systems

- Apply legal-domain judgement to project specifications and evaluation criteria

- Maintain strong execution across legal, operational, and technical workstreams

- Improve workflows supporting complex AI and data initiatives

Ideal Profile

- JD or equivalent law degree required

- 2+ years of experience in legal practice, legal research, regulatory/compliance, or a related field

- 2+ years of experience leading complex projects, operational workflows, or legal-related initiatives

- Strong legal-domain knowledge and project-management skills

- Demonstrated ability to manage projects from ambiguity through delivery

- Strong stakeholder-management and cross-functional coordination skills

- Excellent written and verbal communication

- Ability to work effectively with attorneys and senior Legal professionals

- Strong attention to detail, ownership, urgency, and operational discipline

- Experience with legal research, contract analysis, litigation, or regulatory/compliance work is valuable

- Experience with legal, technical, or data-intensive projects is advantageous

- Familiarity with AI/ML organisations, data annotation, evaluation workflows, or human-in-the-loop systems is beneficial

Engagement Details

- Full-time engagement

- Fully remote

- Compensation: $400,000–$550,000/year

- Work will involve strategic project leadership, legal workflows, stakeholder management, data operations, human-data pipelines, project delivery, and cross-functional coordination

- A JD or equivalent law degree is required

- Responsibilities may span legal research, contract analysis, litigation workflows, regulatory/compliance work, AI-training operations, and expert evaluation

- Regular communication with customers, Legal domain experts, Operations teams, and project leads is expected

- Project scope, priorities, customer requirements, and workflows may evolve based on business needs

- Work must be completed without using confidential, privileged, proprietary, client-identifiable, sealed, regulated, or otherwise restricted information belonging to any client, law firm, court matter, employer, government entity, financial institution, or other third party

About the Platform

This opportunity is available through 24-MAG LLC. We connect experienced professionals with remote consulting opportunities across technical, evaluation, and project-based workstreams.

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