Legal Engineer
Our client is a reputable legal tech business seeking a Legal Engineer to join their collaborative team. Due to growth, this is a newly created permanent opportunity reporting to the Chief Product Officer.
They are looking for a key subject matter expert and open to candidates based either in the UK or North America as this is a remote-first opportunity.
Responsibilities include:
- Working closely with the Client Success Managers and Product team to help evolve their platform and demonstrate its value to their clients.
- Guide product development, client strategy and broader business direction using your legal expertise.
- Contribute insights into the Sales and Marketing teams, helping stay ahead of the market trends and client needs, while shaping their positioning in the legal tech ecosystem.
- Deliver engaging, tailored demonstrations—virtual and in-person—that validate client challenges and clearly articulate the value of our platform to stakeholders at every level, from end-users to C-suite.
- Partner with Sales and Client Success to drive client engagement throughout the customer journey. Facilitate demos, trial programs, and create strategies that boost adoption, usage, and ROI.
- Gather and interpret user feedback, explore unfamiliar workflows across legal practices, and provide strategic input to guide product development and business direction.
- Act as a go-to expert for legal and transaction domain knowledge. Help internal teams understand the market landscape and our customers’ needs.
- Build and present compelling use cases that showcase impact. Create materials that clearly communicate the platform’s capabilities and benefits.
- Support product innovation by identifying and exploring partnership and integration opportunities with tools such as document and entity management systems.
- Represent at key industry events and build a strong network of advocates and champions within the legal tech space.
The successful candidate:
- Legal Expertise: 2+ years’ experience as a lawyer or professional in corporate transactions, litigation, dispute resolution, or other relevant legal fields. Experience in a legal tech or client-facing product role is a strongly preferred.
- Exceptional Communication: Confident presenter and storyteller, able to translate complex features into clear value-based narratives.
- Technical Curiosity: Comfortable working with product and engineering teams. Eager to learn and translate client needs into product requirements.
- Creative Problem-Solving: Adaptive, inquisitive, and quick to grasp unfamiliar workflows. Solutions-oriented with a flair for thinking differently.
- Strong Organisation: Highly detail-oriented, capable of managing multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines with clarity and focus.
- Innovative Mindset: Entrepreneurial, proactive, and excited by the opportunity to shape the future of legal tech.
Highly desirable but not essential:
- Experience working on canvas-based or visual collaboration tools
- Familiarity with AI technologies like NLP or OpenAI tools
What the job offers:
- Competitive salary
- Opportunity to join an early-stage start up with strategic influence directly shaping the product's market fit and client satisfaction
- High impact work that really matters
- Flexible working - remote first model with an office in central London for those who want to use it
- Career development budget and support
- Join a dynamic team with regular socials and events
- Services
- Career search
- Locations
- New York, London
- Remote status
- Hybrid

Novum Global - Worldwide Legal Sector Specialist
We create opportunities for legal technology businesses and law firms through business advisory and talent acquisition services and for candidates through building long-term careers.
Novum Global bring over 20 years of expertise together from a variety of disciplines to make the future of technology vendors and professionals brighter. Our team is dedicated to being the partner that businesses, firms and professionals can go to with ease of mind that their growth aspirations are in the best hands.
Novum Global's services range from start to end as we find the best matches between open roles and professionals and support the development and successful execution of strategic goals.
About Novum Global
Novum Global is a global specialist in the legal sector, connecting legal tech businesses, law firms, and candidates with opportunities for growth. Trusted by 130+ businesses, law firms, and thousands of candidates, Novum Global delivers exceptional consulting, talent acquisition, and tailored advisory services in sales, marketing, and HR. Focused on driving growth at personal and corporate levels, Novum Global empowers clients with the tools and expertise needed to stay ahead in the legal industry.
Legal Engineer
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