Manager of Legal Engineering

Responsibilities

• NetDocuments is seeking a Manager of Legal Engineering to own the substantive legal quality of that intelligence - and to build the discipline of legal engineering inside our R&D organization.
• You'll operate as a player-coach: a senior individual contributor who also builds and leads a small, special-forces team of legal engineers, working across every product team in R&D.
• You will:
• Build the evaluation discipline for legal AI at NetDocuments. Design and run evaluation harnesses that define what "good" looks like for legal work product, briefs, analyses, extractions, and agent outputs, and prove with rigor that each iteration of our products is better than the last.
• Develop our legal skill strategy. Author, test, and validate the skills (structured, executable domain knowledge) that let agents perform substantive legal tasks correctly, and build the testing scaffolding that validates they actually matter.
• Define legal taxonomy and structure. Bring frameworks like practice-area ontologies, document typologies, and matter lifecycles into a coherent semantic layer that agents and products can rely on.
• Hire and lead a small team of legal engineers while remaining deeply hands-on yourself.
• Work across all of R&D. Partner with Product, Engineering, and Design teams across our AI, user experience, and platform groups, serving as the substantive legal authority for agentic product decisions.
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Additional Information

NetDocuments is committed to providing an excellent candidate experience and will never ask you to engage in recruitment activity without phone, video, and in person meetings and communications from emails using the @netdocuments.com domain. If you have any concerns or questions about communications you have received, please send them to hrgroup@netdocuments.co m so our team members can review. NetDocuments is the world's #1 trusted cloud-based content management and productivity platform that helps legal professionals do their best work. We strive to win together through passionate hard work, exploring new things and recognizing every interaction matters. NetDocuments provides rewarding career growth in an inclusive, diverse environment where employees are encouraged to openly contribute creative ideas and innovation, backed by supportive peers and leadership working together to achieve our goals as a unified team. At our core, we are dedicated to empowering our employees to drive successful business outcomes and better user experiences for our customers and partners. Our customer-centric approach and employee enablement has allowed us to enjoy many accolades, including being named among the 2022, 2023, & 2024 list of Inc. Magazine's 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America. Other recent awards include: Five-time winner (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021) Top Workplace in the US by the Salt Lake Tribune Four-time winner (2025, 2023, 2022, 2021) Best Companies to Work for by Utah Business magazine Three-time winner (2025, 2023, 2022) Top Workplace Employee Appreciation and Employee Well-Being Three-time winner (2024, 2023, 2022) Top Workplace Work-Life Flexibility Three-time winner (2024, 2023, 2022) Top Workplace Compensation & Benefits Two-time winner (2024, 2023) National Top Workplaces Two-time winner (2024, 2023) Top Workplace Innovation 2025 Remote Work 2024 Technology Industry NetDocuments is a hybrid, remote-friendly workplace. Come join our team and work inspired each day!

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