Director of Data Curation & Knowledge Systems in London

We offer a flexible working policy that supports a healthy balance between personal and professional well-being. This role requires in-office presence on Tuesdays & Thursdays to collaborate, connect, and learn from peers - while also maintaining the flexibility for meaningful work-life balance.

You will lead the transformation of legal content into reliable, AI-ready data assets that power next generation legal technology solutions. This role combines strategic leadership with deep technical expertise in data engineering, unstructured data, data-for-NLP principles, and knowledge systems within our document management ecosystem. You will improve and evolve existing data pipelines and systems to support AI-ready legal data, design semantic pipelines, and establish governance frameworks that ensure compliance and trust. Your team will directly enable AI-driven insights, intelligent search, and knowledge discovery for legal professionals worldwide. Additionally, your team will grow and curate the data repository that serves as ground truth for AI development, product, and engineering initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Owning the data curation roadmap and data standards adopted across product & R&D.
• Building and operating scalable pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and storing unstructured legal content.
• Developing entity extraction, embeddings, and semantic search workflows; managing annotation programs for AI training with measurable quality & throughput goals.
• Evolving pragmatic taxonomies, schemas, and semantic structures that improve search, retrieval, and AI performance.
• Implementing a data acquisition and ground-truth annotation program including quality assurance tooling and documentation.
• Embedding governance, lineage, and privacy controls directly into data workflows rather than treating them as separate processes.
• Leading, developing, and inspiring a high-performing team of 8–10 engineers and specialists; fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and growth.
• Driving team development through coaching and career progression.
• Partnering with senior stakeholders across Product, Legal, Security, and R&D to shape data strategy and deliver integrated solutions.

Qualifications:

• 8–10+ years in data engineering or knowledge management; 3-5 years in leadership.
• Hands-on experience or strong working knowledge in NLP/text analytics (entity extraction, embeddings, semantic search).
• Proficiency with modern data stacks.
• Exposure to data governance and compliance topics.
• Proven ability to lead, inspire, and develop high-performing teams.
• Experience setting vision and strategy for data initiatives while mentoring team members to grow into leadership roles.
• Worked on evaluating LLM outputs and task performance, with skills in fashioning and manipulating data.
• Understanding of programming languages commonly used for text data, such as Python.
• Demonstrated success in influencing stakeholders and driving alignment across Product, Engineering, and AI teams.
• A self-propelled, proactive leader who thrives in ambiguity and consistently drives initiatives from concept to execution.

Bonus Points If:

• I have familiarity with vector databases and RAG architectures (Milvus, Weaviate, Pinecone).
• Knowledge of legal taxonomies, ontologies, and knowledge graphs.
• Experience in legal tech, DMS, or regulated data environments.
• Exposure to DMS platforms (iManage, NetDocuments) or eDiscovery systems.

At iManage, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive environment, and encourage everyone to show up as their full authentic selves. We welcome those that come with a growth mindset and a hunger for learning; so, if you are excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification we encourage you to apply anyways!

Benefits:

• Creating an inclusive environment where I can help shape the culture.
• Providing a market competitive salary that is applied through a consistent process.
• Rewarding me with an annual performance-based bonus.
• Offering comprehensive Health/Vision/Dental/Life Insurance, and a 401k Retirement Savings Plan with a company match up to 4%.
• Granting enhanced leave for expecting parents; 20 weeks 100% paid for primary leave, and 10 weeks 100% paid for secondary leave.
• Providing a flexible time off policy to take the time off that I need.
• Having multiple company wellness days each year to prioritize mental health and well-being.
• Providing access to RethinkCare, a global behavioral health platform.

iManage provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.