AI Innovation Advisor

About Kirkland & Ellis

Kirkland & Ellis is a law firm that sets the standard for legal excellence. Our culture is built on teamwork, ingenuity, and a commitment to continuous growth. We provide innovative solutions to complex legal challenges, supported by the expertise of 7,000+ people, including 4,000+ attorneys, globally.

What You’ll Do

As an AI Advisor, you will work within practice groups to develop AI solutions that enhance legal workflows. You will own the end-to-end workflow development, working closely with engineers and contributing to a playbook of best practices. You may also support client-facing matters, collaborating with practice teams to deliver AI-enhanced legal services directly to clients. Additionally, you will champion responsible AI adoption, ensuring attorneys understand the capabilities and limitations of generative AI.

Practice Group Engagement

• Act as a credible advisor on AI workflow and integration strategy
• Guide attorneys on where and how AI can add value across their practices
• Document current-state workflows with sufficient specificity to drive enhanced design
• Translate attorney tasks and needs into scoped requirements and identify opportunities to leverage existing builds or address failure points
• Partner with practice teams to deliver AI-assisted legal services directly to clients
• Champion responsible AI adoption by ensuring attorneys understand the capabilities and limitations of generative AI
• Carefully coordinate tasks, timelines, and stakeholders for AI workflow development initiatives

Workflow Development & Testing

• Own end-to-end AI legal workflow development
• Decompose complex legal tasks, design prompts, align outputs to firm standards, and iterate rapidly across platforms
• Design and execute sing protocols, including prompt engineering, output benchmarking, and iterative attorney-driven refinement
• Maintain structured decision logs capturing each workflow's task requirements, prompt logic, validation criteria, failure modes, and platform constraints
• Partner with engineers as workflows mature, bridging attorney domain knowledge and technical execution
• Build deeper technical fluency through exposure to pipeline design and failure analysis

Playbook & Training

• Contribute to a scalable AI workflow playbook codifying best practices, templates, decision trees, and implementation guides
• Provide informed recommendations on AI tools, capabilities, and roadmaps grounded in direct legal practice experience
• Proactively share learnings and emerging patterns across the team
• Collaborate with training and development teams to design and deliver attorney training programs, including demonstrations, user guides, and feedback mechanisms
• Track and report project status, adoption metrics, and outcomes to Innovation leadership
• Stay current on AI developments, regulatory changes, and industry best practices

What You’ll Bring

• A J.D. from an accredited law school is preferred, but candidates with five or more years of experience leading innovation initiatives, driving technology adoption, or overseeing AI implementation at a large law firm or legal technology company will also be considered
• Comfort operating in a billable, client-service environment, with an understanding of the pace, quality expectations, and confidentiality requirements associated with delivering work product directly to clients
• Strong aptitude for process improvement and legal technology, including generative AI/large language models with sufficient understanding of where AI succeeds and fails
• Direct experience with legal AI platforms (Harvey, Legora, CoCounsel, Lexis+ AI, or comparable), including hands-on building and iterating on prompts and workflows with accountability for output quality
• Ability to collaborate with attorneys and leadership at all levels, establishing credibility with senior stakeholders and influencing decisions in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
• Strong writing, project management, and organizational skills with sound judgment — able to manage multiple concurrent initiatives, lead and document design calls, translate technical concepts for varied audiences, and independently advance priorities
• Collaborative and adaptable team player who tackles challenges with initiative, creativity, and accountability, bringing a client-focused, solutions-oriented mindset

Compensation

• The base salary range for this position varies based on your geographic location and cost of living considerations. For example, in Chicago, the range is $153,000 - $191,000.
• We offer an exceptional range of flexible benefits including comprehensive healthcare, paid time off, and retirement.
• We also offer personal support and tailored learning and development opportunities all designed to help you realize your full potential both in life and at work.

How to Apply

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