Description
Flagship Pioneering is building a dedicated Legal Operations & Technology function and is hiring a Legal Technology and AI Specialist to help lead its hands-on build-out of AI-powered tools and workflows across the legal department.
The ideal candidate brings strong technical fluency in AI/ML systems and a working understanding of legal operations gained through direct exposure to in-house legal work. This is a ground-floor opportunity to shape how a leading life sciences and venture creation organization integrates AI into its legal function from day one.
Key Responsibilities
AI Development and Implementation
- Build, configure, and deploy AI-powered tools and workflows for the legal team, including solutions for contract review, legal research, document drafting, compliance monitoring, and knowledge management.
- Develop, test, and maintain prompt libraries and prompt engineering frameworks for generative AI systems used across the legal department.
- Design and implement integrations between AI tools and the Legal Operations & Technology stack (CLM, document management, matter management, e-billing).
- Prototype and iterate on AI-assisted workflows, moving from proof-of-concept to production deployment.
- Monitor emerging AI capabilities and evaluate their applicability to Flagship's legal operations.
AI Governance and Quality Control
- Support the development and maintenance of internal AI usage policies and acceptable-use standards for the legal department.
- Build quality control procedures for AI-generated legal work product, including validation protocols, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and output review standards.
- Conduct technical risk assessments on new AI tools, evaluating for data security, confidentiality, bias, and hallucination risk before deployment.
- Partner with Flagship's IT, information security, and data privacy teams to ensure legal AI tools comply with organizational security standards.
Process, Training, and Adoption
- Serve as a go-to AI resource for the legal team: design and deliver training sessions on effective use of AI tools, responsible prompting, and output verification.
- Document and standardize AI-assisted workflows, creating playbooks and best-practice guides that fit within the broader Legal Operations & Technology process framework.
- Track adoption metrics, define KPIs, and measure the ROI of AI initiatives across the legal team, reporting results to Legal Operations leadership.
Vendor and Tool Evaluation
- Support Legal Operations & Technology vendor evaluations, product demonstrations, and pilot programs for legal AI platforms and adjacent legal technology.
- Provide technical assessment of vendor AI capabilities, architecture, and data handling practices.
- Recommend tools and platforms based on technical merit, integration feasibility, total cost of ownership, and alignment with the legal team's needs.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with business and technology stakeholders across Flagship to identify opportunities where legal AI capabilities can support broader organizational objectives.
- Contribute to enterprise-wide AI governance initiatives as the Legal Operations & Technology team's technical representative.
- Collaborate with attorneys and legal operations colleagues to translate legal workflow needs into technical requirements.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, AI/ML, data science, engineering, or a related technical field.
- Demonstrated experience building or engineering AI/ML solutions, including working with large language models, natural language processing, or related technologies.
- Practical understanding of prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), fine-tuning, and AI system evaluation.
- Exposure to legal operations, legal workflows, or the legal industry through internship, work experience, or coursework.
- Familiarity with the legal technology landscape (CLM platforms, AI-assisted research tools, document automation, e-discovery).
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate technical AI concepts for legal and business audiences.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and prioritize in a fast-paced, build-from-scratch environment.
Preferred
- Prior internship or work experience in an in-house legal department, law firm, or legal operations team.
- Experience with legal-specific AI tools (contract AI, legal research platforms, document review systems).
- Familiarity with responsible AI use policies, digital and data governance, data privacy frameworks (GDPR, state privacy laws) as they relate to AI deployment.
- Background in or exposure to life sciences, biotech, or venture capital.
- Experience developing AI governance frameworks, usage policies, or responsible AI guidelines.
- Coursework or certifications in legal studies, legal technology, or legal operations.
Work Environment & Benefits
- Standard office environment in Cambridge with hybrid flexibility options.
- Collaborative, interdisciplinary teams engaged in high-impact innovation.
- Professional growth opportunities across Flagship Pioneering and its portfolio.
- Competitive compensation and benefits package.