Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Axiom is a global provider of on-demand legal talent and alternative legal services supported by advanced AI tools. The Legal Engineer will lead the design and development of a scalable enterprise risk taxonomy and operating model, assessing current risk practices and translating legal, privacy, compliance, and AI governance requirements into structured workflows, controls, and governance processes.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development of a practical risk operating model spanning Legal, Engineering, Privacy, Compliance, AI Governance, and business functions
- Assess how risk is currently identified, classified, assessed, owned, governed, monitored, and evidenced across the organization
- Inventory existing risk terminology, categories, classifications, tags, fields, and data structures across current tools and business processes
- Interview key stakeholders across Legal, Privacy, Compliance, business teams, and AI Governance to understand current practices, requirements, pain points, and future-state needs
- Identify inconsistencies, duplication, gaps, unclear ownership, and opportunities for standardization across existing risk processes
- Design an enterprise risk ontology/taxonomy establishing clear definitions and relationships across: + Risk domains and categories. + Risk types and attributes. + Controls and mitigations. + Legal and regulatory obligations and requirements. + Processes, systems, owners, and supporting evidence
- Translate the taxonomy into an actionable operating model defining roles, responsibilities, decision rights, governance structures, escalation pathways, and ongoing maintenance processes
Skills
- Experience in legal engineering, legal operations, enterprise risk management, GRC, compliance operations, or legal technology
- Strong understanding of risk taxonomies, ontologies, control frameworks, governance models, and structured data
- Experience mapping complex legal, privacy, compliance, AI, or regulatory requirements into operational workflows and technology systems
- Demonstrated ability to conduct current-state assessments and design scalable future-state processes and operating models
- Experience working across Legal, Engineering, Privacy, Compliance, Product, and business stakeholders
- Strong workshop facilitation, stakeholder interviewing, process mapping, and requirements-gathering skills
- Ability to translate legal and risk concepts into structured fields, classifications, workflows, controls, evidence requirements, and reporting structures
- Experience implementing or designing workflows within GRC, legal technology, compliance, risk management, or enterprise workflow platforms
- Strong project management skills, including roadmap development, stakeholder coordination, issue tracking, and executive-level communication
Benefits
- Employees may be eligible for health, dental, and vision insurance
- Employees may be eligible for paid holidays and PTO
- Employees may be eligible for flexible work arrangements
- Employees may be eligible for professional development opportunities and tools
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