Carta
Legal Product Builder
$204K–$240K
San Francisco, CA +2 · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York City, NY
New York, New York, United States - Experience
- 4+ years of substantive training and experience; Big Law, in-house at an asset manager or PE firm, comparable legal practice, or a legal-adjacent role.
- Visa sponsorship
- Carta uses E-Verify in the United States for employment authorization.
About the job
Build and improve AI-powered legal products by translating legal judgment and workflows into agent behaviors, evaluations, and prototypes.
What you'll do
- Partner with engineers and product managers to design AI-powered legal products and agent-driven workflows.
- Create examples, evaluation criteria, and test cases; assess agent performance and help address failure modes and edge cases.
- Prototype legal capabilities using AI tools, prompts, workflows, and agent behaviors.
What they ask for
- Lawyer with substantive legal training and experience.
- Demonstrated ability to identify breakdowns in legal workflows and propose or build improvements.
- Comfortable collaborating with engineers and translating legal judgment into actionable technical requirements.
- Strong written communication, sound judgment, and ability to work independently.
Nice to have
- Commercial contract negotiation experience or prior work in legal tech or a hybrid legal/product role.
- Familiarity with contract automation, document intelligence, or negotiation tooling; founder or build-from-scratch experience.
Pay
$204,000 - $240,000 USD minimum cash compensation (salary + commission if applicable) in New York City, NY and San Francisco, CA
Tools
AI
AI focus
Build, prototype, test, and improve AI legal agents and products, including contract review, compliance, negotiation, and document intelligence workflows.
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