Checkbox · 1 day ago
Legal Product Specialist (NYC, US)
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expCheckbox is a Series A Sequoia-backed technology start-up focused on enabling meaningful work through a no-code automation platform. The Legal Product Specialist will serve as a legal domain expert, translating legal workflows into scalable product behavior and collaborating with product teams to enhance user experience for legal teams.
Document PreparationLegalLegal TechPaaSSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Define and drive the long-term product strategy for authorization, identity, and access management
Partner with product, design & engineering during discovery, design, and delivery
Contribute legal domain insight to the team, as well as PRDs, UX flows, and AI behaviour
Help teams make pragmatic trade-offs between legal correctness, usability, and scale
Model legal workflows such as intake, triage, approvals, risk assessment, and outcomes
Define legal defaults, guardrails, and exception paths
Help design legal abstractions that work across customers and jurisdictions
Support complex customer implementations where legal nuance matters
Identify patterns that should become productised (not bespoke)
Help reduce time-to-value for legal teams adopting our platform
Pressure-test product experiences from a legal team’s perspective
Help ensure our AI features are interpretable, defensible, and trusted by legal users
Feed structured customer insights back into product strategy
Qualification
Required
Qualified lawyer with 8+ years of experience
3+ years of experience working in-house (preferably across legal teams of varying sizes)
Passionate about technology & efficiency
Some experience in legal operations, legal tech or process improvement
Experience implementing legal tech or workflows
Interest & exposure to AI-enabled products & automation
Ability to think in term of systems, workflows, abstractions & patterns
Comfortable working in ambiguous, fast-paced environments
Benefits
Competitive salary & equity – We believe in employee ownership and comfortable compensation for our employees so that they can be as happy and productive as possible without any reservations.
Hybrid working arrangements – We have an office in the city and the team comes in on Tuesdays for our weekly all-hands kick-off (and we’ll grab coffee and lunch together), and on Fridays where we celebrate our weeks effort and go out for dinner.
Personal learning & development budget - Continuous development and growth is one of our core value, and we believe in developing our own home-grown leaders.
Flexible leave policy – You can choose to work on weekends or public holidays and take equivalent days off at another time to maximise your time off.
Expense policy & salary sacrifices – You can expense small work-related items and salary sacrifice larger items within reason.
Start-up hub in the heart of the city - Enjoy our city office which is decked full of snacks, drinks, premium coffee and coffee machine, and of course, a ping pong table and beers.
Company wide social events - Enjoy amazing company coffee, lunches & Friday night hangs and annual off sites to fun & exciting locations like Australia, Bali & Korea.
Transparent & flat culture - Enjoy the benefits of an open culture where all questions and feedback are welcomed so we can be a better company day by day.
Company
Checkbox
No code platform for the automation of forms, decisions, documents and workflow, using only drag and drop.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$6.2M2024-01-01Series Unknown
2022-01-27Seed· $4.43M
2022-01-25Pre Seed
Leadership Team
Evan Wong
Co-founder | CEO
Paul Wenck
Co-Founder, Investor & Chairman
Recent News
LegalTech Breakthrough
2025-11-14
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