Strategic Project Lead - Legal

Team: Applied AI & Research

Location: Remote US

Commitment: Permanent - Regular Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Your Impact

You will own the success of frontier legal AI pilots, taking emerging use cases to validate projects that meet defined standards for legal quality, feasibility, and cost. 

Your judgement will shape how case law, contracts, statutes, regulatory filings, and legal reasoning are used for model training and evaluation, with appropriate consideration for privilege, confidentiality, and jurisdictional requirements. 

Across Appens global delivery organization, youll establish the workflows, expert requirements, quality standards, and operational blueprint needed to move successful pilots into scalable programs. 

Success in this role will create legal AI pilots that meet their defined success criteria, trusted partnerships with Researchers and Customers, and proven approaches that can be operationalized across future legal programs.

What You Bring

• JD or equivalent law degree, with 2+ years in private practice, in-house, legal research, or regulatory and compliance work.
• 2+ years leading complex projects, operational workflows, or subject-matter initiatives.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills when working with attorneys, legal experts, researchers, and customers.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment. 

Nice to Have

Experience working with AI/ML companies, AI labs, or data annotation and evaluation projects.
Experience managing legal, technical, or data-intensive projects.
Familiarity with legal research, contract analysis, litigation, regulatory/compliance work, or other complex legal workflows. 

Why Youll Love Working Here

At Appen, we foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We value curiosity, accountability, and a commitment to delivering the highest quality AI solutions for frontier models.

Youll work on complex challenges that shape the future of AI across industries and geographies, alongside talented people in a culture that values humility over ego. Youll have the flexibility to deliver in a way that works for you and your team, supported by tools, resources, and development opportunities to continue to build your capability over time.

About Appen

Appen has been a leader in AI training data for over 30 years. We specialise in human generated data to train, fine tune, and evaluate models across generative AI, large language models, computer vision, and speech recognition. Our AI assisted data annotation platform and global crowd of more than 1 million contributors in over 200 countries support model pre training, supervised fine tuning, evaluation and benchmarking, safety and red teaming, and multilingual global expansion.