Associate Director of Artificial Intelligence – Knowledge Transformation

Latham & Watkins LLP • New York, NY

9d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Associate Director of Artificial Intelligence – Knowledge Transformation is an integral part of Latham’s Technology & Information Services team. This role will be responsible for leading a team of expert knowledge professionals who are focused on identifying, curating, structuring, and optimizing the firm’s transactional precedents, playbooks, and accumulated practice expertise for use in AI-powered systems, while leading and developing a team of expert knowledge professionals responsible for transforming the firm’s institutional legal knowledge into AI-ready assets, providing strategic direction, performance oversight, coaching, and professional development, and ensuring all team members maximize their effective use of AI to better serve the firm. This role will be located in either our New York, Washington D.C., Boston, Los Angeles, or Bay Area offices. Please note that this role may be eligible for a flexible working schedule that allows for a hybrid and in-office presence.

Requirements

• Possess deep expertise in knowledge management, taxonomy development, and information architecture, with the ability to structure complex legal content for optimal AI consumption and retrieval
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of transactional legal practice, including M&A, finance, and capital markets workflows, with the ability to identify and curate high-value precedents and practice knowledge
• Exhibit advanced knowledge engineering capabilities, including developing taxonomies, metadata schemas, tagging standards, knowledge repositories, and quality assurance frameworks for AI-powered legal tools
• A bachelor’s degree, preferably in law, library science, information science, computer science, or a related field
• A Juris Doctor (JD), preferably
• A minimum of ten (10) years of experience in knowledge management, legal technology, or legal practice, with demonstrated experience in knowledge engineering, taxonomy development, or AI systems
• Previous management experience required
• Experience in transactional legal practice, preferably, with litigation practice experience also valued

Responsibilities

• Defining and implementing the firm’s knowledge transformation strategy, establishing multi-year roadmaps for converting transactional precedents, contract templates, and practice playbooks into structured, AI-optimized knowledge repositories
• Establishing and overseeing knowledge engineering standards, including taxonomies, metadata schemas, tagging conventions, and quality assurance protocols to ensure consistency, accuracy, and retrievability of knowledge assets across AI systems at scale across the firm
• Overseeing the development and maintenance of structured knowledge repositories, including clause libraries, negotiation playbooks, market terms databases, brief banks, motion templates, litigation strategy guides, and practice-specific guidance materials optimized for utilization as AI context
• Partnering closely with Innovation Attorneys, Legal Engineering teams, Knowledge Management Lawyers, AI Services Attorneys, and other technology colleagues to ensure knowledge assets are effectively integrated into AI-powered workflows for document drafting, due diligence, contract analysis, deal execution, legal research, brief drafting, and case strategy development
• Establishing and monitoring KPIs, quality metrics, and utilization measures for knowledge assets, using data-driven insights to guide prioritization, optimization, and expansion of knowledge transformation initiatives
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains

Benefits

• Healthcare, life and disability insurance
• A generous 401k plan
• At least 11 paid holidays per year, and a PTO program that accrues 23 days during the first year of employment and grows with tenure
• Well-being programs (e.g. mental health services, mindfulness and resiliency, medical resources, well-being events, and more)
• Professional development programs
• Employee discounts
• Affinity groups, networks, and coalitions for lawyers and staff

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director