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Wordsmith AI

GTM Legal Engineer

AI summary of the role

Wordsmith is hiring a GTM Legal Engineer to guide in-house legal teams through AI adoption.

What you’ll do

  • Partner with Account Executives across the full sales cycle, bringing in-house credibility to discovery, demos, and commercial conversations with legal leadership.
  • Lead tailored product demonstrations for in-house legal teams, grounding demos in operational realities of legal work.
  • Conduct in-depth discovery to understand legal department structure, workflows, and inefficiencies, and map where Wordsmith delivers impact.
  • Translate AI value into language that resonates with in-house stakeholders: reduced cycle times, cost efficiency, risk reduction.

What you’ll bring

  • Qualified attorney with experience in an in-house legal team (corporation, financial institution, or high-growth company).
  • Strong understanding of how in-house legal departments are structured and how decisions get made.
  • Ability to engage credibly across in-house stakeholders: legal leadership, legal ops, procurement, business clients.
  • Executive presence and communication skills — comfortable presenting to a GC, facilitating workshops, or running business case discussions.

Technologies

AI · automation · contract lifecycle management · matter management · e-billing · compliance platforms · legal tech

Source and classification

Technical pre-sales · Evidence for this classification:

GTM broadly, you will support engagements with General Counsels, Heads of Legal, Legal Operations leaders, and lawyers across inhouse departments — from first conversation through to deep team wide adoption. This isn't a traditional sales support role. It combines legal ops expertise, solutions architecture, change advisory, and client partnership. Your mission is to help in-house legal teams understand what AI can genuinely do for them — and then make that real. What You'll Do Pre-Sale & GTM Support Partner with Account Executives across the full sales cycle, bringing in-house credibility and knowledge to discovery, demos, and commercial conversations with legal leadership and team members. Lead tailored product demonstrations for and in-house legal teams — grounding every demo in the operational realities of inhouse legal work. Conduct in-depth discovery to understand how each
More from the job description

GTM Legal Engineer New York Wordsmith Wordsmith is building the AI-enabled command centre for in-house legal teams. Legal teams are under pressure to move faster while managing increasing complexity. Wordsmith combines AI, automation and structured workflows to help legal teams operate at the speed of the businesses they support. We work with ambitious legal teams that want to modernise how legal work gets done. The Role In-house legal teams are navigating one of the biggest shifts in how corporate legal operates — from pressure to do more with less, to increasing demand for strategic input, to the arrival of AI that can genuinely change how work gets done. This role exists to be their guide through that shift. You will come from a background in law with in-house experience who brings credibility to every stage of the commercial cycle. Working alongside Account Executives and GTM broadly, you will support engagements with General Counsels, Heads of Legal, Legal Operations leaders, and lawyers across inhouse departments — from first conversation through to deep team wide adoption. This isn't a traditional sales support role. It combines legal ops expertise, solutions architecture, change advisory, and client partnership. Your mission is to help in-house legal teams understand what AI can genuinely do for them — and then make that real. What You'll Do Pre-Sale & GTM Su [... source excerpt omitted ...] nance stakeholders evaluate and articulate the business case for AI adoption internally. Map how AI will impact specific functions and workflows. Act as the voice of the in-house customer within the GTM team, feeding commercial and product teams with insight on how corporate legal departments think, prioritise, and buy. Product Feedback Be a leading voice for in-house users inside the company — sharing insights from legal ops teams, commercial lawyers, and compliance functions that directly inform product development and roadmap priorities. Work closely with product and engineering teams as well as embedded legal engineers to translate real-world in-house legal needs into cle [... source excerpt omitted ...] Ops leaders, and in-house teams. Contribute to the development of the legal engineering function as it scales, helping to define how the company engages with and serves in-house customers globally. What we’re looking for Essential Qualified attorney with experience in an in-house legal team — whether at a corporation, financial institution, or high-growth company. Direct experience of the operational pressures, budget constraints, and strategic priorities facing corporate legal is central to this role. Strong understanding of how in-house legal departments are structured and how decisions get made — from the GC down to legal ops as well as interacting with other members of

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