Director, Generative AI Software Engineering

Job Description

Join Our Team at Litera: Where Legal Technology Meets Excellence

Litera has been at the forefront of legal technology innovation for over 25 years, crafting legal software to amplify impact and maximize efficiency. Developed by the best legal minds in the industry, our comprehensive suite of integrated legal tools is both powerful and user-friendly and simplifies the way modern firms manage core legal workflows, secure collaboration, and organize firm knowledge and experience. Every day, we help more than 2.3 million legal professionals focus on their craft. Litera: Less busy work, more of your life’s work.

Overview: As a Director of Generative AI Software Engineering at Litera, you will be part of a dynamic team that is passionate about driving innovation in the legal technology space. You will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge tools and collaborate with industry experts to deliver solutions that make a real difference in the legal profession.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and execute the generative AI roadmap aligned with business and engineering goals
• Lead ideation, prototyping, and scaling AI-driven solutions, including LLMs. Copilots and AI autonomous agents
• Act as a creative leader, inspiring engineering teams to push the boundaries of innovation
• Lead technology architecture and development as per product needs
• Oversee the daily activities and progress of multiple SCRUM teams 
• Monitor and update team metrics for measurement of engineering and operational excellence. Ensure a consistent, regular process for assessment of goals and improvement of deliveries 
• Lead many SCRUM teams through estimating engineering effort to build new features and fix prior mistakes
• Collaborate with Product Managers on new products and new features 
• Collaborate with architects to deliver secure, scalable and performant products
• Implement a data driven approach to drive transparency and accountability across all stakeholders
• Identify market gaps, product/client requirements or issues
• Work with geographically distributed cross-functional teams, such as product, customer success and sales, to define detailed plan and execute it with agility and speed
• Create an impact on our overall software development approach, setting engineering, roadmaps, partnering with product management and product marketing
• Strategic thinker with abilities to create or work on 90, 120, 180-day plans designed along with leadership team for self and teams.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s, Masters’ or PhD in computer science or equivalent experience is required 
• 15+ years of technology including 5+ years of management experience in various elements of full-stack software development front end, back end, data and insights and hands-on technical design & implementation experience preferably in SaaS products
• Strategic thinker with the ability to formulate Product/business strategy
• Experience leading artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives, ideally in a product-driven engineering environment.
• Deep understanding of generative AI technologies, including LLMs, MCP Servers, agents, and prompt engineering.
• Excellent understanding of software development life cycles (SDLC) with experience guiding teams through planning, development, and rollout
• Prior experience in managing multi-disciplinary teams of engineers simultaneously working on multiple projects
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and influencing skills at high levels
• Comfortable interacting and presenting in front of C-level executives
• Experience with Docker / Kubernetes, web APIs, and React.js
• Familiarity with DevOps CI/CD principles
• Possess innate customer service skills including the ability to be empathetic, accurate, compassionate, responsive, resourceful, and conscientious
• Strong relationship management, strategizing, project management, problem solving, and change management skills
• Thrive in fast-changing environments and ambiguity while being execution-oriented, hands-on, pragmatic, and focused on results
• Motivated problem solver who can accurately document and communicate issues

Why Join Litera?

• The company culture: We emphasize helping each other grow, doing the right thing always, and being part of a journey to amplify impact, creating an exciting and fulfilling work environment
• Commitment to Employees: Our people commitment is based on what employees love most about being part of the team, focusing on tools that matter to the difference-makers in the legal world and amplifying their impact
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