Senior AI Lawyer (6+ years PQE)

This is an exciting opportunity for a senior practising lawyer who is passionate about the transformative potential of AI in legal services and wants to shape how we deliver value to our clients through smarter, technology-enabled workflows.

You will bring your legal expertise and practice group knowledge to a team focused on embedding AI tools into the heart of how we work 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

• Act as one of the team's embedded LegalTech and AI specialists, with a deep understanding of AI tools, legal workflows, and the practical realities of fee earner adoption.
• Advise internal teams and clients on how AI can be applied effectively and responsibly within their legal matters and business operations.
• Bring credibility to client-facing conversations about AI by grounding recommendations in genuine legal and practice group experience.
• 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.
• Keep up to date with industry developments and new technologies.
• Support the full delivery lifecycle of client LegalTech projects, from initial requirements gathering and analysis through to configuration, testing, onboarding, and post-launch user enablement.
• Serve as the primary client engagement lawyer for new client products, managing client relationships, onboarding experiences, and ongoing engagement to maximise adoption and value.
• Work closely with clients to understand their workflows and tailor AI solutions to their specific needs and risk appetite.
• Design and deliver engaging AI training sessions and workshops for senior fee earners, including at firm retreats and practice group away-days.
• Develop and facilitate client-facing AI workshops, helping organisations explore use cases, refine processes, and build confidence in working with AI tools.
• Design workshop slides nuanced to specific clients / sectors 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 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.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders including partners.
• 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 would be advantageous.
• 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.

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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