Senior lawyer (USA)

Alaro • New York City, NY

12d • Onsite

About The Position

Alaro is the AI operating partner for business-critical work, starting with legal. We turn recurring, document-heavy processes into reliable AI-enabled operations - scoped by legal experts, managed as an extension of the team, and improved with every matter. Founded in 2025 by Willem (ex-Paul Hastings PE, Cambridge) and Igor (ex-Monzo ML, Cambridge). Backed by tier-one VCs. Work monitored by our licensed attorneys. Fixed fee. No retainers. We have processed $5bn of legal work to date, with anchor clients including a £2.4bn London real estate developer, an elite US law firm, and international banks. The US entity is live in New York. The US market is next.

Requirements

• Trained and qualified at a top-tier firm - Paul Hastings, Kirkland & Ellis, Allen & Overy, a Magic Circle firm, or an elite US firm of the Skadden tier.
• Roughly 3-8 years' PQE, or junior-to-mid-level associate in US terms.
• Able to pick up unfamiliar work and codify it quickly. Handed a matter type you have never run, you work out how it is judged and turn it into a repeatable process
• Process-obsessed and automation-driven. Your instinct on any recurring task is the steps plan, not the grind
• Commercially pragmatic. You understand what the client is paying for and calibrate the output to that, without being asked
• Comfortable doing the work manually while you build the automation. Quality holds in both modes

Nice To Haves

• Transactional background preferred over litigation. A preference, not a hard requirement

Responsibilities

• Execution of client legal work, end to end, at the standard of a top-tier firm - from day one, unsupervised
• The steps plan: codifying every workflow you touch into a process precise enough for the agents to take over
• Scoping and mapping new workflows from the historical documents clients send - what the work is, how it is judged, where the edge cases live
• Quality monitoring of agent output on workflows you have codified. Your name stays on the standard
• The feedback loop to engineering: what the agents get wrong, what the steps plan missed, what to build next

Benefits

• OUTPUT, NOT HOURS: We measure work by the matter closed, not the time recorded. No timesheets, no billable targets, no incentive to be slow.
• RIGOUR WITH SPEED: Speed is expected; quality is non-negotiable. AI does the heavy lifting so the judgment work gets the attention it deserves.
• AUTOMATE YOURSELF FORWARD: The best work you do here is work nobody has to do again. Every workflow you codify compounds - for you, the team, and the client.
• BUILD THE FIRM WITH US: You shape playbooks, tooling, hiring and direction. The work you do now sets the standard the next ten lawyers operate to.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed