Senior AI & Innovation Counsel

About the role

The Senior AI & Innovation Counsel plays a central role in embedding AI into legal practice and driving adoption across the firm. This role sits within the US Innovation team and reports to the US Director, Head of Innovation.

Responsibilities

• Embed within priority practice group(s) and support other Innovation teams and key Innovation initiatives by encouraging adoption of AI tools and workflows
• Validate AI outputs through a practiced legal lens, ensuring they meet professional, ethical, and client standards
• Translate attorney needs into actionable requirements for other innovation and legal engineering teams
• Maintain a pipeline of practice driven priorities and use cases
• Contribute to a library of reusable workflow patterns and agentic playbooks that can be adapted across practices
• Identify, prioritize, and develop high-value use cases based on real legal work and practice experience
• Decompose legal matter workflows into discrete tasks, decision points, and dependencies to identify where AI and agentic solutions can drive the greatest impact
• Partner with other Innovation functions and translate decomposed workflows into clear functional specifications: agent behaviors, guardrails, evaluation criteria, and success metrics
• Support rapid prototyping and testing of new workflows and tools; and help iterate solutions from concept to scalable, production-ready offerings
• Capture feedback and measurement loops from attorneys to continuously improve and validate solutions performance against attorney expectations and matter quality standards

Qualifications

• JD required
• Minimum seven years' experience as a practicing attorney or in KM/ Innovation within professional services, preferably at an AmLaw 100 in a practice group of strategic importance to Norton Rose Fulbright
• Demonstrated and deep understanding of legal workflows and how legal work is delivered in practice
• Proven experience with legal technology, project management, business planning, and team management
• Comfort operating in ambiguity: this function is still being defined, and you will help define and mature it
• Excellent communication skills and ability to translate business or legal requirements into technical solutions and workflows; able to present to senior partners and work alongside engineers in the same day
• Experience developing scalable frameworks, playbooks, or reusable solution patterns
• Understanding of data privacy, security, and responsible AI considerations in a professional services context