Principal Legal Associate

Join Scissero – The Law Firm of the Future About Us - Scissero is an AI-enhanced legal services company built for financial institutions. - We combine expert legal support with intelligent automation, transforming how transactional law is delivered. - We’re not a traditional law firm. - We are a diverse and globally distributed team of lawyers, engineers, and innovators working across the U.S, EMEA, and APAC. - We believe technology augments, not replaces legal expertise. - Our culture values collaboration, inclusivity, and flexibility. Position Overview - We are looking for a qualified U.S. Attorney to fill this position. - As a Principal Legal Associate, you will lead day-to-day legal delivery and own the client relationship for a portfolio of leading global investment firms, asset managers, and corporates across live private equity, M&A, and financing transactions. - You will combine senior legal judgement with hands-on account management, taking ultimate responsibility for the quality of legal work and the overall health of the accounts in your allocated client group. - You will draft, review, negotiate, and oversee NDAs and ancillary transaction documentation in accordance with client-approved playbooks, while acting as the senior escalation point for complex, sensitive, or novel matters. - You will oversee and develop a team of Junior Legal Specialist, Legal Specialist, and Senior Legal Specialists, taking responsibility for their work product and for their ongoing training and development. - This role carries direct account-management responsibility. - You will be the day-to-day owner of client relationships within your allocated group, available on call to clients, tracking account health, hosting quarterly business reviews, handling complaints and issues end-to-end, and identifying opportunities to deepen and grow accounts in partnership with the Account Manager. - You will be expected to blend commercial awareness with legal expertise, ensuring clients receive both technically excellent legal work and a trusted, responsive service relationship. - You will leverage our proprietary AI-enabled platform to drive speed, consistency, and accuracy across document review, deviation identification, and playbook application, while maintaining full ownership and accountability for the final output of your team. - You will also partner with our product and engineering teams, helping refine and improve the AI tools that underpin our delivery model. - This is an opportunity to operate at the senior end of an AI-native legal services business, leading both the legal delivery and the commercial relationship for sophisticated clients on complex, real-world transactions. - Location: U.S., Remote - Hours: 9am – 6pm (EST) Key Responsibilities - Lead day-to-day delivery for your allocated client group, ensuring high-quality legal services, strong client experience, deadline compliance, and consistent execution. - Draft, review, negotiate, and oversee complex NDAs and ancillary transaction documents across private equity, M&A, and financing transactions. - Act as the senior point of escalation for difficult legal, commercial, client, counterparty, or workflow issues, identifying, challenging, and formulating high-quality solutions. - Oversee and review the work product of junior, specialist, and senior team members, ensuring quality, consistency, legal substance, and readiness for client distribution. - Lead, sign off, review, and refine client playbooks, templates, and precedents, ensuring consistency with internal guidelines, format, and structure. - Serve as the day-to-day account lead and ultimate “responsible person” for allocated clients, owning the overall health of each account. - Be available and on call to clients, hosting regular check-ins, negotiation calls, and quarterly business reviews (QBRs) to assess platform usage, service performance, and account direction. - Track customer health across allocated accounts, proactively identifying risks to satisfaction, retention, or renewal and acting early to address them. - Take ownership of client complaints and issues end-to-end, drafting competent responses and driving them through to resolution. - Support customer outreach and account growth, identifying opportunities to expand or deepen relationships — including onboarding additional document types, new workflows, or changes to scope — in partnership with the Account Manager. - Provide coaching, feedback, mentoring, and training to team members, identifying development needs and designing and delivering targeted training. - Monitor capacity, workload distribution, SLA performance, and service quality across your allocated group, escalating resourcing or performance issues as appropriate. - Contribute to hiring, interviewing, onboarding, performance calibration, and progression discussions. - Identify opportunities to improve service delivery, legal technology adoption, workflow design, and managed services scalability. - Contribute to the continuous improvement of internal processes and delivery of workflows. Legal Technology & AI Integration - Lead by example in the effective use of our proprietary AI tools across your allocated client group, modelling best practice for the team. - Ensure team members use the tools consistently and appropriately across document review, playbook application, deviation identification, and quality control. - Maintain full oversight of legal output, ensuring technology-assisted work is reviewed, validated, and aligned with client-approved positions. - Provide structured feedback to product and engineering teams to support ongoing platform improvement. - Work within an AI-native legal delivery model that combines legal expertise with technology Experience - Required: 3+ years PQE - must be a qualified U.S. Attorney. - Law degree (LLB or equivalent). - Proven experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating core transactional or commercial documents, including confidentiality agreements, engagement letters, and release letters. - Demonstrable client-facing experience, including direct ownership of client relationships, client calls, and handling client issues or complaints. - Demonstrable experience supervising, mentoring, or indirectly managing legal team members and reviewing their work product. - A genuine blend of legal and commercial capability — technically strong in the practice of law and commercially astute in the management of client relationships. - Excellent written and spoken English, including the ability to explain legal concepts clearly to lawyers, non-lawyers, clients, and senior stakeholders. - Strong attention to detail and commitment to producing consistently high-quality work. Preferred Experience - Experience working with private equity, asset management, hedge fund, or other alternative asset manager clients. - Account management or customer success experience, including tracking account health and running client review meetings such as QBRs. - Experience at legal tech, law firms, ALSPs, Big 4 legal teams, or in-house legal departments. - Experience working with structured playbooks or standardised legal frameworks. - Experience in a venture-backed technology scale-up environment. Why Join Us? - Gain valuable experience at the forefront of AI-enhanced legal services. - Work with a diverse and innovative global client base, including leading financial institutions. - Opportunity for professional growth and development in a tech-enabled environment. - Join a dynamic, enthusiastic, and diverse team committed to collaboration and excellence. - Learn from experienced professionals across multiple disciplines and jurisdictions. - Global Benefits - Hybrid and remote working options, with the ability to work from other countries (upon request) - Paid Sick Leave days per year to recover or care for family. - Confidential Support: Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) offering mental health and wellbeing support. - Professional Development: 7 days per year of paid study leave annually for exams and structured learning. - Annual Bonus: Discretionary and performance-based. - Generous Paid Time Off: Annual leave + bank holidays At Scissero, you’ll be part of a scale-up blending law and technology to create meaningful impact. If you’re excited about redefining the future of legal services with AI, apply now to join our team. Inclusivity - At Scissero, we value diversity in all its forms and believe that varied perspectives make us stronger. - We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.