Principal, Legal GenAI

Consilio LLC • ,

8d • Remote

About The Position

Consilio’s Legal Management Consulting team advises corporate legal departments on improving how they work. This role focuses on Legal GenAI, helping legal departments determine where generative AI is useful, select appropriate tools and implement them safely. Work may include strategy and readiness, use-case identification and prioritisation, tool selection, pilot design and implementation planning, AI-enabled workflow redesign, prompt and workflow development, governance and risk, and training and adoption.

The role leads substantial GenAI workstreams and, where appropriate, smaller client engagements. It works directly with General Counsel, Heads of Legal Operations and other senior stakeholders to understand challenges, identify opportunities for GenAI, structure solutions and turn analysis into practical recommendations. The position also contributes team leadership, junior-colleague development, methodology development, business development and Consilio’s market position.

Requirements

• 5–7+ years of relevant experience in legal consulting, legal technology, legal operations, technology-enabled transformation, professional services or an in-house legal function, including recent, direct GenAI experience.
• Strong practical understanding of GenAI in corporate legal departments and professional services, including use-case identification, workflow design, prompting, evaluation, governance, adoption and current model limitations.
• Experience applying GenAI to contracting, such as contract review, drafting or AI-enabled contract lifecycle tools.
• Hands-on knowledge of enterprise Legal GenAI platforms such as Harvey, Legora, CoCounsel, Wordsmith or equivalent, together with prompt development, workflow design or evaluation methodologies.
• A degree in law, business, finance, information technology, information systems, data science or another relevant discipline.
• Demonstrable experience leading consulting workstreams or complex technology adoption initiatives.
• Strong understanding of corporate legal departments and how legal work is performed in practice.
• Strong consulting skills, including problem structuring, stakeholder management, analysis, facilitation and development of practical recommendations.
• Experience engaging credibly with senior stakeholders, including General Counsel, Heads of Legal Operations and senior functional leaders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to explain complex topics clearly without losing substance.
• Experience developing executive-level presentations, findings reports, business cases, roadmaps or strategic recommendations.
• Good understanding of the Legal GenAI market, its main tools and vendors, and how they fit alongside other technology used by legal departments.
• Commercial awareness and ability to balance client objectives, project scope, quality and delivery requirements.
• Collaborative leadership style and willingness to remain hands-on when required.

Nice To Haves

• Experience translating GenAI opportunities into business cases, roadmaps or technology strategies, considering value, feasibility, risk and organizational impact.
• Change management experience or certification, such as Prosci.
• Formal process improvement or business analysis qualifications.
• Previous consulting or professional services experience with large multinational organizations.
• A second language relevant to Consilio’s international client base.

Responsibilities

• Lead major workstreams and selected engagements across Legal GenAI strategy, readiness, tool selection, pilots and adoption.
• Structure consulting engagements and define the analysis, activities and deliverables needed to address client objectives.
• Facilitate workshops and interviews with General Counsel, Heads of Legal Operations, and senior legal, procurement, technology and business stakeholders.
• Synthesize qualitative and quantitative information into clear findings, strategic options and actionable recommendations.
• Lead Legal GenAI strategy and readiness engagements, assessing business needs, use cases, processes, technology, data and knowledge sources, governance, risk, organizational readiness and adoption requirements.
• Lead Legal GenAI selection and pilot engagements, covering use-case prioritization, requirements, vendor evaluation, success criteria, benchmark tasks, user testing, business cases, risk and governance, and implementation planning.
• Design AI-enabled legal workflows, combining GenAI, agentic workflows, automation and human legal judgment where appropriate to improve legal service delivery.
• Develop and guide GenAI enablement assets, including prompt libraries, reusable workflows, prompt-testing methodologies, evaluation criteria, user guidance, training and adoption approaches.
• Challenge AI-led assumptions and help clients determine when GenAI creates value and when conventional technology or process change is more appropriate.
• Develop pragmatic GenAI adoption roadmaps that account for business priorities, dependencies, organizational readiness, risk and available resources.
• Own the quality and consistency of major client deliverables and ensure recommendations are evidence-based, practical and aligned with client objectives.
• Manage engagement activities, dependencies, risks and stakeholder expectations in collaboration with the engagement lead.
• Direct and review Consultants’ and Junior Consultants’ work and support their professional development.
• Contribute to client proposals, RFP responses, statements of work, scoping and effort estimation.
• Support business development discussions and identify opportunities to expand or deepen client relationships.
• Develop GenAI methodologies, accelerators, points of view, training materials, whitepapers and other thought leadership.
• Track developments in GenAI models, Legal GenAI tools and the wider legal technology market, and translate them into practical client implications.

Benefits

• Leadership responsibility on complex engagements with major global legal departments.
• Direct relationships with senior legal and legal operations leaders.
• Opportunity to specialize in Legal GenAI and help major legal departments redesign service delivery for an AI-enabled environment.
• Meaningful role in developing Consilio’s GenAI consulting methodologies and market propositions.
• Responsibility for coaching and developing the next generation of consultants.
• Opportunities to contribute to business development, thought leadership and practice growth.

What This Job Offers

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