Product Legal Engineer

Edinburgh (in-office)

Wordsmith

Most legal teams are drowning. They’re buried under internal questions, contract reviews, policy approvals, and constant fire drills.

Wordsmith is the AI command centre for in-house legal. We combine AI, automation, and structured workflows to help legal teams operate at the speed of the businesses they support.

We’re building at the frontier of legal technology, and our Legal Engineering team sits at the centre of how the product actually works.

Why this role is different

This is not a support or advisory role. You’ll sit inside the product team and help define how the product behaves.

You’ll take how strong legal operators think and work, and turn that into systems, workflows, and AI-driven behaviour that scale across every customer.

AI is core to how we build. You’ll be expected to use it, test it, and push it — shaping how it’s applied across real workflows.

You won’t just describe legal work. You’ll define how it gets done.

The Role

You’ll own a domain within the product, going deep on workflows, edge cases, and customer needs.

Working closely with engineers, product managers, and designers, you’ll translate legal expertise into product features, playbooks, and systems.

This role blends legal knowledge, product thinking, and hands-on building.

What you’ll do

Build and Own

• Build, curate, and maintain legal workflows, playbooks, and product logic

• Translate legal expertise into structured, scalable systems

• Continuously improve product quality based on real-world use

Product Development

• Contribute to product specs, prototypes, and feature design

• Work closely with engineering and design to ship new capabilities

• Help define how AI is applied across workflows and use cases

Testing and Evaluation

• Design and run testing protocols to assess accuracy, reliability, and usability

• Identify gaps, edge cases, and improvement areas

• Ensure features are fit for real customer use

Customer Insight

• Work directly with customers to understand how they operate

• Identify patterns, unmet needs, and high-impact opportunities

• Feed insights back into product and roadmap decisions

Use Case Development

• Build and maintain a library of high-value use cases

• Partner with GTM to support sales conversations and product positioning

What we’re looking for

• Strong understanding of how in-house legal teams operate

• Experience in legal operations, legal tech, or legal practice

• Comfortable working across legal and technical domains

• Clear communicator, confident working with customers and stakeholders

• High ownership — you take responsibility for outcomes, not just ideas

• Curious and proactive — you look for better ways to do things

AI capability (important):

• Practical experience using AI tools (work or personal use)

• Strong point of view on where AI works, where it breaks, and where it adds value

• Willingness to experiment and apply AI directly in product development

Typical backgrounds:

• Legal Engineers

• Legal Operations professionals

• Lawyers or Legal Advisors with an interest in AI and product

How we work

We’re an in-office team in Edinburgh. We work together because it helps us build faster, collaborate closely, and make better product decisions. You should expect to be in the office as your default.

This is a high ownership environment. You’ll be trusted to run projects, define domains, and drive outcomes without heavy oversight.

The problems are often not fully defined. Part of the role is bringing structure and clarity to them.

Why this role matters

The value of legal technology comes from how well it reflects real legal work.

This role ensures the product stays grounded in how legal teams actually operate — and turns that into systems that scale.

What you can expect

• Direct impact on product and feature development

• Ownership of a domain within the product

• Close collaboration with Product, Engineering, and GTM

• Opportunity to shape how AI is applied in legal workflows

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity