Your Impact
You will own the success of frontier legal AI pilots, taking emerging use cases to validate projects that meet defined standards for legal quality, feasibility, and cost.
Your judgement will shape how case law, contracts, statutes, regulatory filings, and legal reasoning are used for model training and evaluation, with appropriate consideration for privilege, confidentiality, and jurisdictional requirements.
Across Appen's global delivery organization, you'll establish the workflows, expert requirements, quality standards, and operational blueprint needed to move successful pilots into scalable programs.
Success in this role will create legal AI pilots that meet their defined success criteria, trusted partnerships with Researchers and Customers, and proven approaches that can be operationalized across future legal programs.
What You Bring
- JD or equivalent law degree, with 2+ years in private practice, in-house, legal research, or regulatory and compliance work.
- 2+ years leading complex projects, operational workflows, or subject-matter initiatives.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills when working with attorneys, legal experts, researchers, and customers.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
Nice to Have
- Experience working with AI/ML companies, AI labs, or data annotation and evaluation projects.
- Experience managing legal, technical, or data-intensive projects.
- Familiarity with legal research, contract analysis, litigation, regulatory/compliance work, or other complex legal workflows.
Why You'll Love Working Here
At Appen, we foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We value curiosity, accountability, and a commitment to delivering the highest quality AI solutions for frontier models.
You'll work on complex challenges that shape the future of AI across industries and geographies, alongside talented people in a culture that values humility over ego. You'll have the flexibility to deliver in a way that works for you and your team, supported by tools, resources, and development opportunities to continue to build your capability over time.
About Appen
Skills Required
- JD or equivalent law degree
- 2+ years of experience in private practice, in-house legal work, legal research, or regulatory and compliance work
- 2+ years leading complex projects, operational workflows, or subject-matter initiatives
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills with attorneys, legal experts, researchers, and customers
- Ability to work comfortably in a fast-paced environment
- Experience working with AI/ML companies, AI labs, or data annotation and evaluation projects
- Experience managing legal, technical, or data-intensive projects
- Familiarity with legal research, contract analysis, litigation, regulatory or compliance work, or other complex legal workflows
What We Do
We help our clients enhance their best-in-class products and services around the world, including search engines, social media platforms, voice recognition systems, sentiment analysis, and eCommerce sites. All of that wouldn’t be possible without our team of more than 1 million flexible workers. The world of tech is moving fast, and we help our clients meet the ever-changing needs of their customers. We take pride in our diverse, international team and the flexible and full-time opportunities we offer.
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