At a Glance
- Tasks: Automate legal processes and improve efficiency with AI-driven workflows.
- Company: Dynamic legal team in a collaborative environment.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, wellbeing allowance, private health insurance, and paid time off.
- Other info: 5-month contract with opportunities for hands-on project delivery.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by streamlining legal operations and reducing admin burdens.
- Qualifications: Experience in process automation and comfort with AI tools; legal training not required.
The predicted salary is between 80000 - 90000 £ per year.
You might currently hold a title such as Business Analyst, Process/Digital Transformation Manager, Legal Technology Project Manager, RPA & Automation Analyst, or Business Process Analyst — legal training is not required for this role.
Location: Cambridge
In‑office expectation: Wednesdays in the office (hybrid)
Employment type: 5 month Fixed Term Contract
Start date: ASAP, ideally you will be immediately available or on a one week notice period
Salary: £80,000–£90,000 full-time-equivalent, pro rata for the 5-month term
Closing date for applications: Friday 17th July
About The Role
We’re looking for a Legal Operations Engineer for a period of 5 months to work directly with our General Counsel and the wider Legal team on a focused, hands‑on build project. Over the last two months, our Legal team has already mapped its core operating processes and documented where the friction and administrative burden sit. That diagnostic work is done. This role is not about re‑running that exercise: it’s about taking the existing process maps and improvement plan and building the automation that makes them real. You’ll work from our current Legal process map and our documented issues‑and‑improvements analysis to design, build, and roll out AI‑driven and workflow automations that reduce manual admin and free up the Legal team for higher‑value legal work. This is a delivery role: you’ll be building and shipping from day one, not spending months on discovery.
Responsibilities
- Prioritise from the existing map: Take Legal’s existing process map (in Lucidchart) and its documented issues‑and‑improvements analysis, and turn it into a prioritised, effort‑vs‑impact build plan for automation.
- Automate the highest‑volume, highest‑admin processes e.g. NDA and contract intake and routing.
- Design and deploy AI agentic workflows — Working closely with the General Counsel and Legal team, using LLMs such as Claude, to remove manual steps from routine legal intake and requests.
- Retire interim fixes: replace the interim MS Forms workaround and similar stopgaps with durable, automated solutions once the proper build is ready.
- Implement and configure legal technology: contract automation/CLM, e‑signing (DocuSign), workflow tools, and the Legal SharePoint hub, so what you build is actually usable and adopted by the team.
- Deliver a clean handover; leave behind documented, running automations and a clear record of what’s automated, what isn’t, and why, so the Legal team can maintain and extend the work after the contract ends.
- Report progress regularly: track build progress against the prioritised list and give the General Counsel real‑time visibility of what has shipped, on a short, fixed timeline.
- Use whatever tooling fits: business process mapping, RPA (robotic process automation), and low‑code/no‑code workflow tools (e.g. Power Automate, Zapier) alongside AI agentic workflows — whichever combination gets automations shipped fastest.
Qualifications
- Must be comfortable working with LLMs such as Claude to design and implement AI agentic workflows, ideally with examples of doing so within a legal, compliance, or other regulated operations function.
- Demonstrable, hands‑on experience building process or workflow automations; able to pick up an existing process map and improvement backlog and start shipping automations quickly, without a long discovery phase.
- Legal training is not required: a background in project management, AI‑based technical delivery, or process/automation engineering is more relevant.
- Background may include: Business Analysis, Business Process Re‑engineering, Digital/Process Transformation, RPA, or Legal Technology delivery.
- Experience with legal or contract operations technology is strongly preferred, e.g. contract lifecycle management (CLM), e‑signature, matter management, or similar.
- Strong delivery mindset: comfortable prioritising a backlog and delivering incremental, working improvements against a short, fixed 5‑month timeline.
- Excellent analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Able to explain technical builds clearly to a non‑technical legal audience, and to work independently with light‑touch oversight.
- Strong understanding of in‑house legal risk and operational challenges, so automation is designed to reduce admin burden without cutting corners on control.
Benefits
- £80,000–£90,000, pro rata for the 5‑month contract term.
- Monthly wellbeing allowance and paid time off.
- Private health insurance.
We believe people do their best work in an environment built on respect, fairness, and trust — and that diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes. We’re an equal‑opportunity employer and make hiring decisions based on skill, potential, and alignment with our values.
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