Junior AI Lawyer (1+ years PQE)

This is an exciting opportunity for a practising lawyer who is passionate about the transformative potential of AI in legal services. This is not a purely legal, knowledge, ortechnology role. If you are energised byshaping a firm's legaltechnologydirection and ensuring it stays ahead of a fast-moving market,this role is for you.

You will bring your legal expertise and technological skills to a team focused on embedding AI tools into the heart of how we work, how we effectively share our legal knowledge using our tools and how we serve clients. You will be a credible voice internally and externally, capable of speaking the language of both the lawyer and the technologist.

You will be part of the LegalTech and AI Practice, which sits alongside the global LegalTech and Innovation team.

Bird & Bird's LegalTech Team mission is to support the strong technology focus of the Firm, provide modern technology to support the business and creative solutions for our Clients. Bird & Bird's LegalTech Team operates across 33 international offices, and this role reflects that global reach. Our primary hubs for this position are London and Frankfurt, though we welcome candidates based in other Bird & Bird locations.

Across whichever office you sit, you will work closely with colleagues internationally, engaging with practice groups, knowledge teams, and business services functions across the network.

The LegalTech Product Lead is a new and distinct role within this team, sitting alongside the Business Applications team and focused specifically on ensuring the firm's technology portfolio functions as a coherent whole: well-connected, well-adapted, and continuously improving. We are a diverse, energised group focused on service, international collaboration, and contribution beyond IT delivery, both internally and externally.

We seek people who are keen to engage across the network and make wider contributions than service and delivery alone.

Key Responsibilities

• Combining a broad range of insights and experiences, including law, technology, knowledge management, AI, data, design, process, and change, our LegalTech and Innovation team develops a wide range of creative and forward-thinking solutions to complement the firm's trusted legal expertise. Working closely with Partners, other fee earning lawyers, Knowledge Development Lawyers, our Digital Champions network and business services staff across the firm, this role will focus on various knowledge sharing and collaboration initiatives, working with our people to translate practical user journeys across our tools into tangible, repeatable, workflows and processes.
• Act as one of the team's embedded LegalTech and AI specialists, with a deep understanding of AI tools, legal workflows / mapping, and the practical realities of fee earner adoption, with an emphasis on how knowledge (prompts, workflows, skills, legal knowledge) can be shared within teams and across the firm more generally using our tools.
• Work closely with the intranet's content editors on a day-to-day basis to ensure they are posting, editing and tagging correctly so it is optimised for search and AI and ensuring the most helpful content is easily accessible.
• Help to deliver LegalTech and Innovation projects, including trialling proposed new systems/features and providing feedback and suggestions.
• Support the growth of quality precedents and know-how in the firm's central database and build momentum in the visibility, use and effectiveness of these tools across all practice areas and acting as a day-to-day point of contact for the Knowledge Development Lawyers and Digital Champions network in an AI context.
• Actively contribute to a culture that values and leverages the firm's responsible AI use by assisting with training, new joiner inductions, communications and attending face to face meetings to raise the profile of the LegalTech and AI Practice and wider LegalTech and Innovation team.
• Deliver statistical usage reports and analysis of the firm's knowledge systems.
• Attend vendor user groups and supplier meetings.
• Keep up to date with industry developments and new technologies.
• Design engaging AI training sessions and workshops for fee earners, including at firm retreats and practice group away-days.
• Develop client-facing AI workshops, helping organisations explore use cases, refine processes, and build confidence in working with AI tools.
• Design workshop slides and prepare tangible takeaways (prompting guides, workflow mapping etc).
• Act as a change agent within practice groups, helping teams identify new use cases and continuously improve how they deliver legal work.
• Contribute to the development of internal training materials, playbooks, pitch materials and best practice guidance.
• Help grow a culture of curiosity, experimentation, and continuous improvement within the team.

What You'll Bring

• Qualified lawyer with at least one year's experience in private practice
• Demonstrable interest in and knowledge of AI and legal technology, including familiarity with AI-assisted legal tools and platforms such as Legora.
• An aptitude for using technology and be highly computer literate, including strong knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and database software.
• Knowledge and experience of how to use relational databases, content management systems, such as SharePoint Online, enterprise search and AI functionality.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Experience of, or a clear aptitude for, project delivery, including requirements gathering, process mapping, testing, and training.
• Comfortable facilitating workshops and training sessions for professional audiences.
• Prior experience in a LegalTech, innovation, or knowledge management role within a law firm or legal team.
• Experience with AI tools applied to legal workflows (e.g. contract review, due diligence, document drafting, or research).
• Familiarity with client-facing technology platforms and portal products.
• A solid understanding of metadata, taxonomies, ontologies and knowledge graphs and how they can be used to classify and structure data.

What's In It For You

• Our agile approach to office and remote working enables you to find the right balance to deliver at your best. Supporting you, our business and our clients in a flexible way.
• Progress your career and personal development with our award-winning development programmes, from our global mentoring scheme to our bespoke coaching opportunities.
• Equip yourself with a board range of technical and business skills as well as a deep understanding of business issues through our skills-based curriculum.
• Competitive, market-led salary and bonus structure
• Family friendly policies as well as health schemes and wellbeing support
• A flexible benefits package which allows you to tailor your benefits to your current needs and lifestyle.

In addition to a competitive salary and benefits package, Bird & Bird operates two discretionary bonus schemes.

We offer a performance related bonus that reflects the contributions you make to the firm. We know an inclusive culture, alongside a diverse workforce, makes us more innovative and agile, so whilst some of the criteria for being awarded a bonus is based on chargeable hours, we also include an allowance for hours spent contributing to Diversity & Inclusion, ESG, and Pro Bono work.

We see 'winning work' as significantly different to the day-to-day business development activities you carry out as part of your role as an Associate, so in addition to the Performance Bonus, Bird & Bird are keen to reward Associates for winning work. Winning Work Bonuses are paid in addition to the Performance Bonus and are intended to be a thank you for your contribution to introducing a client or generating additional work from an existing client.

If you require any assistance, please email us at talentacquisitionlondon@twobirds.com

To apply, click on the 'apply' button to submit your details.

Bird & Bird opens up a world of possible for lawyers everywhere. Here you can advise major enterprises and high-growth businesses on matters that are often transformative in nature, and alongside people who are truly collegiate in the way they work with everyone at Bird & Bird. We are one international firm, where over 70% of our work involves teams from across our firm. And that is only going to increase. It is this common purpose and shared approach that makes for a more productive, and collaborative place to work.

If you want to find out more, visit www.twobirds.com

As a disability and neurodiversity inclusive employer we want to ensure that you have a barrier-free recruitment experience at Bird & Bird. If you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, please provide details to your recruitment contact who will be in touch to discuss any details provided and understand more about your individual adjustment needs.

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