Director, AI

Overview

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Goodwin is seeking a Director of AI to lead the design and deployment of proprietary AI models trained on localized datasets. This role will accelerate the way our attorneys deliver value to our clients by embedding AI into the heart of our practice. The Director of AI will be responsible for setting the technical roadmap, leading custom AI developments, and pioneering AI solutions and awareness across the firm. The ideal candidate will balance long-term AI solution roadmap planning with day-to-day engineering execution and hands-on technical oversight.

Responsibilities

• Set proprietary models for a list of targeted use cases with documented accuracy, latency and ROI targets.
• Stand up a secure AI data layer (feature store, vector DB, retrieval pipelines) over firm content with permissions-aware retrieval.
• Develop auditable governance including model cards, evaluation harness, bias testing, and quarterly review with legal and information security.
• Operationalize CI / CD models / agents, evaluations, observability, rollback and cost tracking.
• Hire and mentor a blended team to machine learning, data and prompt engineers.
• Partner with KM on domain taxonomies, embeddings strategies, and feedback loops to continuously improve models.
• Work with general counsel and privacy operations on confidentiality, data retention, vendor due diligence and AI policy – aligning to Goodwin Model Risk Management and Responsible AI standards.
• Lead end to end lifecycle including problem framing, data pipelines, model selection, fine tuning, evals, deployment, monitoring and iteration.
• Architect RAG over privileged content with strict access controls. Implement safety layers including prompt hardening and output filtering.
• Build evaluation and assurance reference sets from attorney labeled data, offline / online A / B and human in the loop review.
• Own change management and adoption including training plans, playbooks and success metrics with named practice leaders.
• Publish internal guidance on model cards, decision logs, and user guidelines.

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Benefits

Consistent with city and state fair chance hiring ordinances, the firm provides equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected status. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, please contact the Benefits Department or Recruiting Department as appropriate.

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