Manager, Legal Knowledge Engineering

Job Description

Join Our Team at Litera: Where Legal Technology Meets Excellence

Litera has been at the forefront of legal technology innovation for over 25 years, crafting legal software to amplify impact and maximize efficiency. Developed by the best legal minds in the industry, our comprehensive suite of integrated legal tools is both powerful and user-friendly and simplifies the way modern firms manage core legal workflows, secure collaboration, and organize firm knowledge and experience. Every day, we help more than 2.3 million legal professionals focus on their craft. Litera: Less busy work, more of your life’s work.

Join Litera as a Manager, Legal Knowledge Engineering and lead a team of lawyers shaping the future of legal tech. If you're a seasoned attorney ready to apply your expertise in a new, innovative way—this is your chance. You'll collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to build impactful legal solutions, explore generative AI, and help redefine how lawyers work. Make a real difference in the profession—on your terms.

As Manager, Legal Knowledge Engineering, you’ll lead the development of one or more of Litera’s legal tech products. You’ll guide a team of Legal Knowledge Engineering Associates, oversee testing outcomes, and help shape how our products extract meaningful insights from legal documents. You’ll also experiment with prompting large language models (LLMs) and define rigorous testing standards to ensure our AI solutions are accurate, reliable, and impactful.

Key Responsibilities

• Working with our product/engineering/design teams to help set the vision for new legal tech products and features within Kira and the rest of Litera.

• Experimenting and testing Generative AI to ensure our products are built the best they can be.

• Creating prompts to allow for the accurate extraction of information from a document set.

• Designing, conducting and analyzing robust AI testing.

• Maintain a thorough understanding of developments in your legal domain and continuously identify new opportunities to build into the products.

• Identify opportunities to improve processes, gain efficiencies, and share best practices.

Qualifications

• You have three or more years practicing in transactional law, ideally gained at a large law firm, in house, or at a legal service provider.

• Experience working with AI (prompting, training or building products around it), whether on the job, or not.

• You are meticulous, highly organized and have a great attention to detail and deeply care about producing highly accurate products.

• Have a JD and have been called to the bar in at least one state/province.

• Experience with legal operations, legal program management, and/or contract management systems is an asset.

• Strong Interest in legal technology and artificial intelligence.

• You have strong client service skills and excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• You have the ability to learn new technologies quickly and are not intimidated by trying something new.

• You are relentless and a creative problem solver, and your analytical skills are exceptional.

• You have strong time management skills and can successfully juggle multiple priorities.

• You are highly responsible, self-motivated and able to work with minimal supervision.

• You empathize with people. Your first instinct when asked for something is to try to find a way to say yes.

Why Join Litera?

• The company culture: We emphasize helping each other grow, doing the right thing always, and being part of a journey to amplify impact, creating an exciting and fulfilling work environment

• Commitment to Employees: Our people commitment is based on what employees love most about being part of the team, focusing on tools that matter to the difference-makers in the legal world and amplifying their impact

• Global, Dynamic, and Diverse Team: Our is a global company with ambitious goals and unlimited opportunities, offering a dynamic and diverse work environment where employees can grow, listen, empathize, and problem-solve together

• Comprehensive Benefits Package: Experience peace of mind with our health insurance, retirement savings plans, generous paid time off, and a supportive work-life balance. We invest in your well-being and future, ensuring a rewarding career journey.

• Career Growth and Development: We provide career paths and opportunities for professional development, allowing employees to progress through various technical and leadership roles

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