Searce Inc
Website:
searce.com
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/searceinc
Seniority: Director
Industries: Business Consulting and Services
Job details:
Your Mission: The Role
solving for better.
You are the Operational Engine of our legal function. As Legal Director, your mission is to transform legal from a "cost center" into a "velocity-multiplier." You don't just identify risks; you build the machinery that neutralizes them in real-time.
You are the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for the global AI legal framework, emerging tech policy, and top-tier strategic commercial partnerships. You will bridge the gap between executive board ambition and ground-level technical execution, ensuring our AI deployments remain globally compliant, commercially dominant, and "Always in Beta."
You’re not just a Director. You’re our Legal Systems Architect.
Your Responsibilities
what you will wake up to solve.
As Legal Director – AI, Tech & Frontier Strategy, you serve as the executive anchor of our legal function, translating market-shifting technology into safe, high-velocity enterprise frameworks. You own the global legal governance lifecycle for our AI products, cloud ecosystems, and strategic tech alliances, ensuring Searce leads the industry in responsible, high-speed innovation.
Here’s how you’ll make your mark:
The following high-impact pointers define your responsibility to drive Operational Excellence and Systemic Efficiency, reinforcing the leadership nature of this role at Searce.
AI-Powered Legal Operations
AI isn’t just a tool here; it’s the core architecture of our workflow.
- LLM Deployment Ownership: Architect the hands-on orchestration of Large Language Models for automated contract intelligence—from risk scoring to real-time playbook generation. You own the prompts, the validation, and the systemic uptime.
- CLM as a Product: Manage Ironclad, SpotDraft, or native stacks as an engineer-operator. You build the API-led integrations and self-healing escalation logic that turn Legal into a high-velocity engine.
- Eval-Driven Legal AI: Engineer the internal benchmarks that define the "quality bar." You instrument the telemetry that determines when AI can run autonomously and when human intervention is vital.
Global Litigation & Dispute Management
Solving for velocity through data-driven resolution.
- Tactical Dispute Ownership: Drive the global dispute lifecycle with precision. Ensure external partners are hitting strategic milestones rather than just tracking hours. Monitor everything through live dashboards, not static documents.
- Notice-to-Settlement Velocity: Re-engineer the pre-litigation phase to neutralize 80% of threats before they escalate. Leverage AI-assisted case modeling to dictate a winning settlement strategy.
- e-Discovery Infrastructure: Establish speed-of-thought preservation protocols across GCP, Slack, and Jira. Build automated, court-ready evidence systems that stay auditable at scale.
Commercial & Transactional Execution
High-velocity deals fueled by sprint-based execution.
- High-Velocity Deal Desk: Act as the "Yes-Architect" for enterprise-scale AI and Cloud partnerships. Use automated redline analysis and AI drafts to dismantle negotiation friction and halve cycle times.
- AI Contract Governance: Define the contractual frontier for AI deployments—managing data provenance, model liability, and frontier SLAs to safeguard both our products and our clients.
- M&A Diligence Automation: Lead boots-on-the-ground diligence for strategic acquisitions. Implement AI document review pipelines that compress typical 90-day integration cycles into radical new timelines.
AI Regulation & Global Compliance
Compliance is native to the system, never bolted on.
- AI Act Fluency: Own our posture under the EU AI Act, US executive orders, and DPDP. Translate regulatory complexity into technical engineering guardrails before they ever become liabilities.
- Cross-Border Data Sovereignty: Partner with engineering to embed GDPR and data localization requirements directly into the product codebase. You architect the rules; engineering executes the build.
- 10+ Jurisdiction Integrity: Safeguard the legal integrity of our global entities. Your frameworks must be version-controlled, auditable, and evolve at the blistering pace of the modern market.
People Engineering & Team Leadership
Engineering solvers, not just managing staff.
- AI-Augmented Team Design: Scale a lean, high-leverage unit where AI-nativity is a prerequisite. Train every member to treat technology as a mandatory force-multiplier for legal intelligence.
- Playbook Architecture: Build the decision trees and automated logic paths that empower junior "solvers" to act autonomously, bypassing traditional hierarchy and maximizing velocity.
Functional Skills
- 0→1 Legal Engine Architecture: A proven track record of building scalable legal functions, playbooks, and contract infrastructures from scratch—turning raw business chaos into streamlined, repeatable operational systems.
- Commercial Deal Velocity & High-Stakes Contracting: Mastery of the "Art of the Deal" in complex SaaS, Enterprise AI, Hyperscaler (GCP/AWS), and cloud ecosystems—crafting aggressive liability, IP, and data-use frameworks that close deals faster without taking on existential risk.
- Tech & AI Native Product Counseling: Ability to sit shoulder-to-shoulder with CTOs, Product VPs, and ML engineers, reading data pipeline architectures and translating complex tech stacks into clear, actionable commercial guardrails.
- Executive Leadership & Cross-Functional Authority: A decisive leader who commands the room with the C-Suite, Board, and GTM executives—shifting legal from a conservative review center into a proactive, revenue-enabling business partner.
Tech Superpowers
- CLM & AI Mastery: Expert at configuring and utilizing modern Legal-Tech (Ironclad, SpotDraft, CoCounsel).
- Forensic Intelligence: Ability to orchestrate digital forensics and data-mapping across cloud ecosystems.
- Process Automation: Using low-code/no-code tools to automate routine legal workflows and reporting.
Experience & Relevance
- Executive Legal Leadership (12+ Years): Proven track record of leading high-performing legal functions in-house at scale-up/enterprise tech companies or heading a leading AI/Tech practice group at a top-tier law firm.
- AI & Frontier Tech Native: Extensive experience advising on cutting-edge AI deployments, large-scale data ingestion, and cloud-native software platforms.
- Cross-Functional Authority: Demonstrated success acting as a trusted advisor to C-Suite executives, Board members, and engineering leadership.
- Global Footprint: Deep familiarity managing cross-border tech operations, international entity governance, and global regulatory bodies across US, EU, and APAC markets.
- The "Director" DNA: A history of taking "1 to 10" ownership—taking a functional area and scaling it into a world-class operation.
Bonus Points (you will thrive if you have)
- 1→10 Scaling Specialist: A track record of taking a foundational legal function and scaling it into a world-class, high-efficiency operation that supports rapid global expansion.
- The "Legal Agile" Practitioner: An entrepreneurial mindset that defaults to "sprints" and "iterations," prioritizing business velocity and real-world outcomes over theoretical legal caution.
- Hands-on Tech Architect: Deep experience in the successful implementation and daily orchestration of AI-led Legal Ops, CLM, and automated risk-spotting tools.
- Operational Translator: The ability to dismantle complex board-level strategy into actionable, technical workflows for the legal team and cross-functional engineering leads.
Join the ‘real solvers’
ready to futurify?
If you are excited by the possibilities of what an AI-native engineering-led, modern tech consultancy can do to futurify legal intelligence, apply here and experience the ‘Art of the possible’. Don’t Just Send a Resume. Send a Statement.
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