Artificial Intelligence Solutions Lead

Job Description

At K&L Gates, we are looking for smart, imaginative and hard-working people with diverse backgrounds, experiences and ideas to join us. Perhaps our search for talented visionaries and your search for important and impactful work lead to the same place.

We are seeking an AI Solutions Lead to join the firm. As the AI Solutions Lead, you will develop AI tools to enhance lawyers' efficiency, security, and overall productivity. This pivotal role combines technical expertise with business strategy, working closely with lawyers, IT, leadership, and business teams. You will assess AI technologies, address user needs, and drive organizational change to promote AI adoption and literacy. By guiding stakeholders through cultural and operational transitions, you will ensure impactful innovation and sustainable advancements across the firm. Your efforts will deliver scalable, compliant, and secure AI solutions that align with the firm's strategic goals.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• Developing and implementing a detailed AI enablement strategy aligned with organizational goals and legal service delivery requirements is essential.
• Establishing an AI Center of Excellence with structured governance frameworks, support networks, and communities of practice ensures effective implementation and collaboration.
• Developing clear roadmaps for AI adoption across practice groups, identifying impactful use cases, and creating business cases to optimize organizational value.
• Developing metrics and feedback systems to monitor adoption, performance, and impact of AI initiatives, ensuring ongoing improvement and alignment with strategic objectives.
• Collaborating directly with lawyers and allied professionals to understand workflows, pain points, and desired outcomes, ensuring solutions are tailored to real needs
• Leading requirements gathering, design workshops, demos, pilots, and feedback loops to co-create practical AI solutions, build confidence, and demonstrate value to stakeholder
• Translating complex technical concepts into clear, compelling narratives for non-technical audiences. Developing power users and champions to support peer learning and adoption
• Collaborating with stakeholders and end users to identify requirements, use cases, and success criteria for artificial intelligence initiatives and solutions.
• Determining whether projects are best implemented using Microsoft platforms (Azure AI, Power Platform, or Copilot) or using alternative AI tools.
• Creating and managing prompt libraries, APIs, and integration frameworks for generative AI and LLM-based solutions. Ensuring implementations are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with firm standards.
• Integrating AI technologies into existing legal and business systems, leveraging platforms like Power Platform and Power Automate to enhance data flow, reliability, security, and compliance
• Overseeing cloud-based deployment and containerization of AI solutions (Azure, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes). Monitoring usage data and user feedback to drive iterative enhancements and optimization
• Performing thorough testing, validation, and optimization of AI models and applications while remaining updated on advancements in AI and legal technology. Encouraging knowledge sharing by guiding junior specialists and promoting cross-functional collaboration.

ADDITIONAL DUTIES

EXPERIENCE SKILLS REQUIRED

Compensation Salary $111,000 - $209,000

The compensation salary for this position will be determined during the interview process and will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to prior experience, relevant expertise, current business needs, and market factors.

ABOUT THE FIRM

K&L Gates is a fully integrated global law firm with lawyers located across five continents in more than 40 offices. We have experienced dramatic growth in the past decade and now rank among the largest U.S. based law firms in the world. We take pride in constantly striving for innovation, imagination and an entrepreneurial spirit. We come up with big ideas and then roll up our sleeves to get the job done, guiding our clients through their most complex issues in a variety of industry sectors and across multiple regions of the world.

The industry recognition the firm has garnered emanates from the foundation of a global community aligned on behalf of our clients. The people at K&L Gates are committed to working together to create a legacy for each other, the firm, our clients, and the communities in which we serve. We thrive in an inclusive and socially conscious environment that embraces diversity and takes a holistic approach to the career evolution of all our professionals.