Strategic Project Lead - Legal

Appen is hiring a Strategic Project Lead - Legal for a remote role open to applicants in United States. Level rates it ; you can apply on Appen.

Level's read on this job

On Level's scale, this role is Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
The posting lists this role as remote.
Tools and skills the posting cites include fine tuning, AI data labeling and computer vision.
Level classifies it as a lead role.
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Appen's Strategic Project Management team is central to the company's growth strategy, partnering with leading AI companies and frontier model developers to deliver the data that makes models work. As Strategic Project Lead - Legal, you will run strategic legal pilots and research projects for legal AI model training and evaluation, from initial scoping through to operationalization. This is a hands-on role bridging customer objectives, legal expertise, and Appen's global delivery capability.

Your Impact

You will own the success of frontier legal AI pilots, taking emerging use cases to validate projects that meet defined standards for legal quality, feasibility, and cost.

Your judgement will shape how case law, contracts, statutes, regulatory filings, and legal reasoning are used for model training and evaluation, with appropriate consideration for privilege, confidentiality, and jurisdictional requirements.

Across Appen's global delivery organization, you'll establish the workflows, expert requirements, quality standards, and operational blueprint needed to move successful pilots into scalable programs.

Success in this role will create legal AI pilots that meet their defined success criteria, trusted partnerships with Researchers and Customers, and proven approaches that can be operationalized across future legal programs.

What You Bring

JD or equivalent law degree, with 2+ years in private practice, in-house, legal research, or regulatory and compliance work.
2+ years leading complex projects, operational workflows, or subject-matter initiatives.
Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills when working with attorneys, legal experts, researchers, and customers.
Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to Have

Experience working with AI/ML companies, AI labs, or data annotation and evaluation projects.
Experience managing legal, technical, or data-intensive projects.
Familiarity with legal research, contract analysis, litigation, regulatory/compliance work, or other complex legal workflows.

Why You'll Love Working Here

At Appen, we foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We value curiosity, accountability, and a commitment to delivering the highest quality AI solutions for frontier models.

You'll work on complex challenges that shape the future of AI across industries and geographies, alongside talented people in a culture that values humility over ego. You'll have the flexibility to deliver in a way that works for you and your team, supported by tools, resources, and development opportunities to continue to build your capability over time.

About Appen

Appen has been a leader in AI training data for over 30 years. We specialise in human generated data to train, fine tune, and evaluate models across generative AI, large language models, computer vision, and speech recognition. Our AI assisted data annotation platform and global crowd of more than 1 million contributors in over 200 countries support model pre training, supervised fine tuning, evaluation and benchmarking, safety and red teaming, and multilingual global expansion.

How we rate this

Strategic Project Lead - Legal at Appen rates 74 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Strategic Project Lead - Legal is an open job at Appen.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The role is based in Remote US and is marked remote.
The job was posted on September 1, 2026.
Seniority: lead.
Applications are handled by Appen. Apply on Appen

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