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. Being a Director of Data Curation & Knowledge Systems at iManage Means… 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. iM Responsible For… 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; This role combines people leadership with hands-on involvement in early wins, process repair, and system improvements; 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; acting as a self-driven leader who proactively identifies opportunities and drives initiatives from concept to execution.