Legal Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Spearhead the creation of a practical risk operating model that encompasses Legal, Engineering, Privacy, Compliance, AI Governance, and various business functions.

• Evaluate the methods used to identify, classify, assess, own, govern, monitor, and document risk across the organization.

• Compile an inventory of risk terminology, categories, classifications, tags, fields, and data structures utilized in tools and business processes.

• Conduct interviews with stakeholders from Legal, Privacy, Compliance, business teams, and AI Governance.

• Detect inconsistencies, duplications, gaps, unclear ownership, and opportunities for standardization within risk processes.

• Develop an enterprise risk ontology/taxonomy that encompasses risk domains, categories, types, attributes, controls, mitigations, legal and regulatory obligations, processes, systems, owners, and supporting documentation.

• Convert the taxonomy into a practical operating model that defines roles, responsibilities, decision rights, governance structures, escalation channels, and maintenance protocols.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proficient experience in legal engineering, legal operations, enterprise risk management, GRC, compliance operations, or legal technology.

• Comprehensive understanding of risk taxonomies, ontologies, control frameworks, governance models, and structured data.

• Proven experience in mapping intricate legal, privacy, compliance, AI, or regulatory requirements into operational workflows and technology systems.

• Established capability to perform current-state assessments and design scalable future-state processes and operating models.

• Experience collaborating with stakeholders across Legal, Engineering, Privacy, Compliance, Product, and business domains.

• Exceptional skills in workshop facilitation, stakeholder interviewing, process mapping, and requirements gathering.

• Ability to interpret legal and risk concepts into structured fields, classifications, workflows, controls, evidence requirements, and reporting structures.

• Experience in implementing or designing workflows within GRC, legal technology, compliance, risk management, or enterprise workflow platforms.

• Strong project management capabilities, including roadmap development, stakeholder coordination, issue tracking, and executive-level communication.

• Legal authorization to work may be necessary.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Paid holidays and PTO.

• Flexible work arrangements.

• Professional development opportunities and tools.

• Equal employment opportunity.

• Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.

• Background check, proof of identity, and legal work authorization may be required for employment.