📈 The Mission: SmartScale HR 

SmartScale focuses on empowering individuals and organizations to harness the transformative potential of AI. We believe AI-first talent is defined by the ability to integrate AI into daily workflows, using it as a creative partner and efficiency driver. We don't just look for skills; we look for the 'AI Multiplier.' We support professionals who leverage technology to turn manual friction into scalable value.

🚀 The Opportunity 

We are currently partnering with an innovative organization to find an AI-First Legal Counsel. Our partner is transforming how work gets done in their industry. They are looking for someone who doesn't just view this role as a list of tasks, but as a chance to build scalable systems and drive data-driven decision-making. This role is ideal for someone who sees manual work as a design problem, not a necessity.

📍 The Role 

You will be joining our partner’s team directly. In this role, you will evolve the legal function from a manual "bottleneck" to an automated "enabler." We are looking for a lawyer who believes that reading standard NDAs line-by-line in 2026 is a misuse of talent. 

You won’t just be redlining documents; you will be architecting the legal engineering stack that pre-screens them. Your mandate is to treat law as code: building self-serve workflows that allow the business to move fast while maintaining safety. 

You operate with the mindset that high-volume, low-risk legal work should be handled by agents, allowing you to focus on high-stakes strategic counsel. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Leadership, and Operations to ensure strategic alignment and delivery of high-quality results.

⚙️ What You’ll Do

• Automated Contract Operations: Implement and manage AI-driven CLM (Contract Lifecycle Management) tools to auto-review standard agreements against playbooks, flagging only true anomalies for human review.
• Self-Serve Legal Bots: Build and train an internal "Legal Concierge" agent that answers routine questions (e.g., policy queries, data privacy standard responses) for Sales and HR instantly.
• Regulatory Intelligence: Use AI scanning tools to monitor global regulatory changes (e.g., EU AI Act, GDPR) and automatically map potential impacts to company policies.
• Structured Legal Data: Transform the contract repository from a folder of PDFs into a structured dataset, utilizing AI to instantly query liability caps, renewal dates, and non-standard clauses across the entire portfolio.

💡 What You Bring

• Experience: 3–5 years of experience as Legal Counsel (In-house or Law Firm), with a focus on Commercial/Corporate law or Tech transactions.
• AI-First Mindset: You view contracts as logic puzzles. You use LLMs to draft clauses, summarize long agreements, and stress-test definitions. You are bored by repetition and energized by efficiency.
• Adaptability: You are comfortable with ambiguity and can navigate the shifting priorities of a growing company.
• Skills: Licensed to practice law. Proficiency with modern Legal Tech (e.g., Ironclad, LinkSquares, Juro) and a comfort level with legal engineering concepts.
• Communication: Clear, professional communication skills with the ability to work effectively.

💎 What Our Partner Offers 

We select our partners carefully. We only work with companies that offer environments designed for professional acceleration and genuine growth.

• Innovation-First Culture: Work in a company that truly embraces AI-First thinking.
• Impact: Play a key role in building a scalable setup where your expertise matters.
• Trust: High ownership and a transparent culture where collaboration happens on eye level.
• Competitive Package: Salary and benefits commensurate with experience and market standards.

You don’t need to match every single requirement to apply. If you have the drive and the right mindset, we want to hear from you.