Legal Engineer - Commercial Real Estate lawyer - Sydney

We are partnering with a well funded, fast growth start up with an incredible automation platform, powered by AI. This software platform is easily customisable with accuracy and superfast turnaround, so can be adapted to any law firm's or in house team's internal processes with expedience.

The team are seeking a Commercial Real Estate lawyer to join as a Legal Engineer, working directly with clients and the internal Sales and Product teams.

As the inaugural Legal Engineer, you will be the Product Specialist/ SME in Commercial Real Estate law. You are a Commercial Real Estate lawyer, within a specialist mid market or top tier firm and possess deep knowledge of processes in the Commercial Real Estate legal domain.

You will be eager to apply this experience and your passion for innovation, technology and AI in new ways. You are naturally curious and happy to apply this knowledge and ask pertinent questions to understand their specific workflows and uncover bottlenecks, pain points and customise requirements. As the subject matter expert to clients, run pilots, focus on seamless onboarding and guide the ongoing adoption of the solution. Your role will help drive the adoption, utilization, and long-term expansion of this incredible, new-to-market automation solution, powered by AI.

About the Role:

• Build trusted, long term relationships as the Commercial Real Estate / SME with law firms.

• Work with Clients, Sales lead and Technical experts to define and design workflow requirements, manage pilots, design tailored onboarding programs and ensure regular cadence, engagement and adoption of the platform.

• Translate Commercial Real Estate legal workflows into actionable product feedback ongoing.

• Facilitate feedback loops with engineers to improve platform accuracy and usability.

• Identify patterns in daily legal tasks to determine which processes can be optimized or automated.

• Work closely with Sales/ Pre-sales, Customer Success Lead and Product team to maximize platform value, adoption, customer experience and the renewal process.

About You:

• 5-8 years PQE in a law firm and / or in house roles.

• Deep expertise in Commercial Real Estate law.

• Based in Sydney or willing to move to Sydney

• Can demonstrate skills and passion for innovation in law.

• Ideally exposure in the roll out or adoption of legal tech / AI within legal teams

• Can thrive in a start up environment which is fast paced and sometimes ambiguous.

Work hybrid from fantastic office near Circular Quay. This role comes with a great salary and share options post probation.