Principal, Legal GenAI

Location: US; remote

Company

hirify.global provides legal management consulting and legal transformation services for corporate legal departments.

What you will do

• Lead major workstreams and selected engagements covering Legal GenAI strategy, readiness, tool selection, pilots and adoption.
• Structure engagements, define deliverables, facilitate workshops and interviews, and synthesize qualitative and quantitative information into actionable recommendations.
• Assess legal business needs, use cases, processes, technology, data, governance, risk, organisational readiness and adoption requirements.
• Design AI-enabled legal workflows combining GenAI, agentic workflows, automation and human legal judgement; develop prompt libraries, reusable workflows, testing methods, evaluation criteria, training and adoption approaches.
• Own the quality of client deliverables, manage engagement risks and stakeholder expectations, and guide Consultants and Junior Consultants.
• Contribute to proposals, RFPs, statements of work, business development, methodologies, accelerators, thought leadership and market analysis.

Requirements

• 5–7+ years of relevant experience in legal consulting, legal technology, legal operations, technology-enabled transformation, professional services or an in-house legal function, including recent direct GenAI experience.
• Strong practical understanding of GenAI in corporate legal departments and professional services, including use-case identification, workflow design, prompting, evaluation, governance, adoption and model limitations.
• Experience applying GenAI to contracting, such as contract review, drafting or AI-enabled contract lifecycle tools.
• Hands-on knowledge of enterprise Legal GenAI platforms such as Harvey, Legora, CoCounsel, Wordsmith or equivalent, together with prompt development, workflow design or evaluation methodologies.
• Degree in law, business, finance, information technology, information systems, data science or another relevant discipline.
• Experience leading consulting workstreams or complex technology adoption initiatives and understanding how corporate legal departments operate.
• Strong consulting skills in problem structuring, stakeholder management, analysis, facilitation and practical recommendation development.
• Experience engaging with General Counsel, Heads of Legal Operations and senior functional leaders; excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience developing executive presentations, findings reports, business cases, roadmaps or strategic recommendations, plus knowledge of the Legal GenAI market and commercial delivery requirements.

Nice to have

• Experience translating GenAI opportunities into business cases, roadmaps or technology strategies while considering value, feasibility, risk and organisational impact.
• Change management experience or certification, such as Prosci.
• Formal process improvement or business analysis qualifications.
• Consulting or professional services experience with large multinational organisations.
• A second language relevant to hirify.global’s international client base.

Culture & Benefits

• Leadership responsibility on complex engagements with major global legal departments and direct relationships with senior legal and legal operations leaders.
• Opportunity to specialise in Legal GenAI and help redesign legal service delivery in an AI-enabled environment.
• Responsibility for developing GenAI consulting methodologies and coaching consultants.
• Opportunities to contribute to business development, thought leadership and practice growth.