Head of Legal Engineering

**Job Description** At Norton Rose Fulbright, people thrive because of a shared commitment to quality, unity and integrity. The highly regarded law firm consistently receives recognition from Great Place to Work and Top Workplaces, two companies that specialize in assessing organizational culture. Teams collaborate across regions, value new ideas and deliver meaningful client solutions, supported by a culture that embraces ambition, development and shared success. With more than 3,000 lawyers and 3,000 business services professionals working together across 50 offices worldwide, this global law firm provides a full range of legal services to leading corporations and financial institutions operating in key markets and sectors. ## **About you** You are a builder at heart and a natural problem solver. You don’t just theorize about AI, you design, prototype, and deliver solutions that solve real problems. You are equally comfortable whiteboarding with attorneys, vibe coding, and translating ambiguity into working commercial products. You bring a pragmatic mindset: focusing on speed to value while ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with firm risk tolerance. ## **About the role** Norton Rose Fulbright has a long-standing commitment to leveraging technology to enhance legal services and streamline operations. We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Head of Legal Engineering **** to play a central role in designing, building, and scaling AI-enabled solutions across the firm. This role sits within the US Innovation team and reports to the US Director, Head of Innovation, and collaborates closely with legal practice groups, IT, and other business services functions. A successful candidate will bring strong legal acumen, a practical understanding of AI technologies, and the ability to lead a team as well as complex, cross-functional initiatives. This is a unique opportunity to help build a legal engineering function inside one of the world's leading law firms -- with organizational support, a growing team, and genuine executive sponsorship. The work is consequential, the problems are hard, and the potential to reshape how legal services are delivered is real. ## **Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:** As a builder-coach, this is a hands-on role where you will be focused on both product and people by directly building solutions and leading a growing team. Equally, you will build trusted relationships with attorneys and business service colleagues across the firm to drive alignment and support for the Innovation program’s initiatives. You will also help shape the firm’s broader approach to applied AI, contributing to standards, governance practices, and solution architecture that enable responsible and sustainable adoption at scale. ## **Solution Design and Build** - Own the full product lifecycle for legal engineering initiatives: from scoping, workflow decomposition, and prototyping; through production deployment and scaled adoption across the firm (in collaboration with other Innovation teams) - Design and develop AI-powered legal workflows, solutions, and internal products from concept through deployment, using tools such as LLM APIs, and legal-specific platforms (e.g., Legora, Harvey) - Develop and maintain evaluation frameworks to measure accuracy, consistency, and defensibility of AI outputs against legal standards and firm expectations - Identify high-value automation and augmentation opportunities across practice groups and business services - Collaborate with attorneys, business services, and firm leadership to surface unmet needs and translate them into engineered solutions - Integrate AI tools into existing legal workflows, ensuring usability and adoption - Build and test prototypes rapidly, iterating toward production-ready solutions ## **Capability Building and Team Development** - Manage and mentor a team of legal engineers and automation specialists, with accountability for hiring…