Wordsmith AI
Senior Talent Partner - Legal Engineering
$140K–$200K
New York · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting; at least some exposure to hiring in legal.
About the job
Leads full-cycle recruiting for legal engineers, building talent pipelines and assessing candidates’ legal judgment, AI and data comfort, and ability to work with customers and engineers.
What you'll do
- Deliver strong legal engineering hires and own a fair, fast recruiting process.
- Map legal talent and build pipelines across law firms, in-house teams, legal operations, and legal technology.
- Track recruiting funnel metrics, report weekly, and improve the process based on data.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting, with some exposure to hiring in legal.
- Demonstrated ability to learn new roles or fields quickly and become a knowledgeable voice.
- A measurable recruiting track record, including hires per quarter, offer acceptance, or hire performance; most recent hires sourced directly.
- Fluency with Ashby or a similar ATS, and real use of AI in personal workflow.
Nice to have
- Experience hiring for a legal tech or AI company, or for hybrid profession/product/engineering roles.
- A legal background.
Pay
$140K – $200K USD base salary
Tools
Ashby
AI focus
Recruiting legal engineers for a legal operations platform where AI agents handle routine work and lawyers retain judgment; the recruiter assesses candidates’ comfort with AI and data and uses AI in their own workflow.
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