{"id":3687394,"url":"https://alion.io/job/wordsmith-legal-engineer","title":"Legal Engineer","company":{"id":45785,"name":"Wordsmith","domain":"wordsmith.org","url":"https://alion.io/company/wordsmith","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":91,"open_postings":14,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.143,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":73,"computed_at":"2026-11-08T05:47:12Z"}},"role":"Legal","role_family":"Legal","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Edinburgh, United Kingdom","London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Canva","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-03T13:15:50Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-03","last_verified_at":"2026-11-08T22:20:17Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":5,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":5},"description":"Wordsmith\nWordsmith is building the legal operating system for in-house teams, and we are growing fast.\nWe believe in-house legal is becoming one of the most important functions in the AI era. Every business is moving faster, but legal work is still too often scattered across inboxes, chats, documents and disconnected systems.\nWordsmith brings that work into one system. Requests come in from across the business, AI agents handle the routine, lawyers stay in control where judgement matters, and every step is captured as work happens.\nWe are built for in-house legal, not law firms. Our goal is to help legal teams move faster, reduce unnecessary external counsel spend and become a function the business can run with.\nMore than 500 companies, including Financial Times, Safelite, Trip.com, Canva, Starling and Sage, use Wordsmith. Backed by over $100M from Index Ventures, General Catalyst, Highland Europe and others, we are building one of the defining companies in legal AI.\nThe role\nLegal Engineers turn the product into real outcomes for customers.\nYou’ll work with customers after purchase to design, configure, and implement legal workflows inside Wordsmith. This role sits close to the customer, helping them embed the platform into how their legal function actually operates.\nIt’s part implementation, part problem solving, and part advisory. You’ll combine legal understanding with product knowledge to help customers get meaningful value from the platform.\nThis is a technical, hands-on role. You don’t need to be a lawyer, and we’re not necessarily looking for one. We’re looking for analytical thinkers who are comfortable with technology and ideally have deployed legal tech before - people who can understand how a legal team works, then build the system that supports it. Where the work turns on legal judgement, we already have lawyers as part of the team who can bring the legal expertise.\nWhat you’ll do\n1. Customer Implementation\nLead implementation projects for new customers\n\nDesign workflows and automation tailored to each organisation\n\nConfigure the platform to support real legal use cases\n\nScope implementations for complex enterprise customers - use cases, sequencing, and where value will land first\n\n2. Solution Design\nWork directly with legal teams and Legal Ops leaders to understand how they operate\n\nTranslate legal processes into structured workflows and AI-enabled automation\n\nAdvise on best practices for implementing legal technology\n\nBuild and adapt playbooks with the customer, bringing in Legal Intelligence where clause language or negotiation positions need a lawyer’s judgement\n\n3. Technical Build\nBuild integrations and connect Wordsmith to customers’ systems, knowing when to bring in Engineering\n\nBuild agents, skills, automations and workflows, from standard templates to complex multi-step processes\n\nTake on complex reports and playbooks, leaving standard ones, such as a basic NDA blueprint, to the wider customer team\n\n4. Escalation & Fixes\nReconfigure playbooks and workflows when a customer’s risk appetite or process changes\n\nAct as the escalation point for technical issues and complex training questions from Support and Enablement\n\nRun deeper health checks where a setup needs technical or process review\n\n5. Customer Success & Expansion\nSupport onboarding and early adoption\n\nHelp customers expand into additional workflows and use cases\n\nCreate the template flows Enablement uses to demo and train on standard product workflows\n\nProvide on-site embedded support where a customer needs hands-on technical help\n\n6. Product Feedback\nSurface patterns, insights, and recurring requests to Product and Engineering\n\nHelp shape how the product evolves based on real usage\n\nWhat we’re looking for\nExperience in legal tech, legal operations, or process transformation\n\nStrong understanding of how in-house legal teams work\n\nAbility to manage customer projects and guide stakeholders through change\n\nComfortable working across legal and technical domains\n\nTechnical enough to build integrations, agents and automations yourself, and to judge when a problem needs Engineering\n\nA fixer’s instinct - comfortable diagnosing a live setup and reworking it when a customer’s needs change\n\nStructured thinker - you can turn messy processes into clear systems\n\nStrong communication skills and confidence working directly with customers\n\nTypical backgrounds include\nPrior Legal Engineering experience\n\nImplementation or solutions consultants in SaaS (CLM / Legal Tech is a plus)\n\nLegal Operations Professionals\n\nHow we work\nWe’re an in-person team based in Edinburgh or London. You should expect to work from the office or visit customers as your default.\nWe set a high bar, move quickly and give people meaningful ownership. There will not always be an established playbook, so you’ll need to bring curiosity, structure and persistence to unfamiliar situations.\nYou’ll sit in the Transformation team, reporting to the VP of Transformation, and work alongside Legal Intelligence, Enablement, Customer Success, Support Engineering and Product.\nOur customer teams have clear but closely connected responsibilities: Transformation leads implementation, Support Engineering resolves technical issues, Account Management owns renewals and commercial growth, Customer Success owns adoption, customer health and value realisation, and Enablement owns onboarding, training and customer capability.\nWhy Wordsmith\nWordsmith is growing quickly, winning new customers and expanding within larger organisations. How legal work gets rebuilt around AI is still being written, and Legal Engineers are the people writing it with our customers.\nYou’ll work directly with ambitious in-house legal teams, see how dozens of legal functions really operate, and take that back into a product you help shape. 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