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AppenStrategic Project Lead - Legal
Appen is currently seeking a Strategic Project Lead - Legal to join their Strategic Project Management team. For over thirty years, Appen has operated as a…
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Appen is currently seeking a Strategic Project Lead - Legal to join their Strategic Project Management team. For over thirty years, Appen has operated as a prominent provider of human-generated training data, supporting generative artificial intelligence, large language models, computer vision, and speech recognition through a global crowd and an annotation platform. In this position, the professional will pilot and research initiatives focused on legal artificial intelligence model training and…
Job Description
Appen is currently seeking a Strategic Project Lead - Legal to join their Strategic Project Management team. For over thirty years, Appen has operated as a prominent provider of human-generated training data, supporting generative artificial intelligence, large language models, computer vision, and speech recognition through a global crowd and an annotation platform. In this position, the professional will pilot and research initiatives focused on legal artificial intelligence model training and evaluation, guiding projects from their initial scope to operational execution.
This hands-on opportunity is well-suited for a legally trained professional who can bridge customer goals, regulatory expertise, and international delivery networks. The person in this role will take responsibility for the overall performance of frontier legal artificial intelligence pilots, ensuring they meet established criteria for cost, feasibility, and quality. Duties involve determining how statutes, case law, contracts, regulatory filings, and legal reasoning apply to model training while addressing jurisdictional rules, confidentiality, and privilege. Furthermore, the role requires building operational blueprints, quality benchmarks, expert guidelines, and workflows to transition successful trials into broad programs.
Responsibilities
- Manage strategic legal pilots and research tasks for legal artificial intelligence model training and evaluation from scoping to operations
- Validate projects to ensure they satisfy defined benchmarks concerning legal quality, financial cost, and operational feasibility
- Determine the proper application of case law, contracts, statutes, regulatory filings, and legal reasoning for model training and evaluation
- Address jurisdictional needs, confidentiality, and privilege during project execution
- Establish workflows, expert criteria, quality frameworks, and operational blueprints to scale successful pilots into major programs
Requirements
- Hold a Juris Doctor or equivalent law degree
- Bring a minimum of two years of experience in private practice, in-house roles, legal research, or regulatory and compliance work
- Possess at least two years of experience directing complex projects, operational workflows, or subject-matter initiatives
- Demonstrate strong communication and stakeholder management capabilities when interacting with attorneys, legal experts, researchers, and clients
- Adapt to a fast-paced work environment
Qualifications
- Experience collaborating with artificial intelligence or machine learning companies, artificial intelligence labs, or data annotation and evaluation initiatives
- Background in handling legal, technical, or data-intensive projects
- Familiarity with contract analysis, litigation, legal research, regulatory and compliance tasks, or similar complex legal workflows
Core Skills
Benefits
- Work on complex challenges that shape the future of artificial intelligence across industries and geographies
- Collaborate alongside talented colleagues within a culture prioritizing humility over ego
- Benefit from flexibility in delivery supported by tools, resources, and development opportunities
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Candidates must hold a Juris Doctor or an equivalent law degree.
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