AfterQuery
Strategic Projects Lead - Legal
$150K–$225K
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 12, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years practicing law; qualifying settings include a leading firm, sophisticated in-house role, government or regulatory body, or legal AI startup.
- Education
- JD (or equivalent qualification).
About the job
Leads legal data and evaluation projects for frontier AI labs, managing expert legal teams and designing training datasets and evaluation standards for legal reasoning.
What you'll do
- Scope and deliver client projects addressing legal data and evaluation needs.
- Recruit and lead attorney and specialist contractor teams, ensuring high-quality work.
- Design legal reasoning datasets, tasks, grading rubrics, and evaluation criteria for AI training.
What they ask for
- 3+ years practicing law in a leading firm, sophisticated in-house role, government or regulatory body, or legal AI startup.
- JD (or equivalent qualification) and substantive legal work experience.
- Deep command of legal reasoning and research methodology.
- Strong analytical, leadership, communication, and execution skills; comfort with data and AI tools.
Nice to have
- Python proficiency or hands-on data analysis experience.
- Experience in legal technology, e-discovery, contract analytics, AI-assisted legal workflows, or using AI tools to automate workflows and build products.
Pay
$150K – $225K (base salary)
Tools
Python
AI focus
Design legal reasoning training data, contract and document review tasks, legal research workflows, and evaluation standards that assess AI legal reasoning, citation integrity, and jurisdictional accuracy.
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