Legal Engineer - Chicago

About the role

We are currently seeking an experienced Legal Engineer to lead the design and development of a practical, scalable enterprise risk taxonomy and operating model for a large, complex organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of a practical risk operating model spanning Legal, Engineering, Privacy, Compliance, AI Governance, and business functions.
• Assess how risk is currently identified, classified, assessed, owned, governed, monitored, and evidenced across the organization.
• Inventory existing risk terminology, categories, classifications, tags, fields, and data structures across current tools and business processes.
• Interview key stakeholders across Legal, Privacy, Compliance, business teams, and AI Governance to understand current practices, requirements, pain points, and future-state needs.
• Identify inconsistencies, duplication, gaps, unclear ownership, and opportunities for standardization across existing risk processes.
• Design an enterprise risk ontology/taxonomy establishing clear definitions and relationships across:
  • Risk domains and categories
  • Risk types and attributes
  • Controls and mitigations
  • Legal and regulatory obligations and requirements
  • Processes, systems, owners, and supporting evidence
• Translate the taxonomy into an actionable operating model defining roles, responsibilities, decision rights, governance structures, escalation pathways, and ongoing maintenance processes.

Qualifications

• Experience in legal engineering, legal operations, enterprise risk management, GRC, compliance operations, or legal technology.
• Strong understanding of risk taxonomies, ontologies, control frameworks, governance models, and structured data.
• Experience mapping complex legal, privacy, compliance, AI, or regulatory requirements into operational workflows and technology systems.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct current-state assessments and design scalable future-state processes and operating models.
• Experience working across Legal, Engineering, Privacy, Compliance, Product, and business stakeholders.
• Strong workshop facilitation, stakeholder interviewing, process mapping, and requirements-gathering skills.
• Ability to translate legal and risk concepts into structured fields, classifications, workflows, controls, evidence requirements, and reporting structures.
• Experience implementing or designing workflows within GRC, legal technology, compliance, risk management, or enterprise workflow platforms.
• Strong project management skills, including roadmap development, stakeholder coordination, issue tracking, and executive-level communication.

Compensation

The estimated total compensation for full-time Axiom attorney roles is $104,500–$325,000 per year and for non-attorney roles is $71,250–$309,750 per year. Compensation decisions are based on various factors, including, but not limited to, experience, skills, certifications, location, and business needs. Employees may be eligible for additional benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance; paid holidays and PTO; flexible work arrangements; and professional development opportunities and tools.