Senior AI Acceleration and Adoption Lead

Weil seeks the best and brightest talent to join our Legal and Business services teams. Our employees are the future of Weil and we invest in their training and development. Our environment embraces and encourages positive-minded professionals who seek to be challenged and acquire knowledge and skills in an atmosphere built on teamwork. Highly skilled and knowledgeable Business Services professionals assist our lawyers in successfully meeting and exceeding client needs and are vital to the overall success of the Firm.

Job Description

Position:Senior AI Acceleration and Adoption Lead

Department: Legal Technology & Enablement

Based at: 110 Fetter Lane London EC4A 1AY

Reports to:Senior Manager AI Acceleration & Administrative Enablement

Overview

Reporting to the Senior Manager AI Acceleration & Administrative Enablement the person in this role will be a senior hands-on member of the firms global AI Enablement team based in our London office. This role is for an experienced legal technology or AI enablement professional who combines deep expert-level fluency in leading AI platforms with the ability to design and deliver training build trust with senior stakeholders and drive lasting adoption across business services teams.

The postholder will own AI enablement training and adoption for the firms London office and more broadly our EU and Asia offices serving as the teams resident subject-matter expert on Claude Gemini ChatGPT Copilot Harvey and other generative AI and legal AI platforms in use across the firms administrative and business services groups.

Primary Objectives

• Serve as the firms go-to platform expert across Claude Gemini ChatGPT Copilot Harvey and other AI tools used by business services professionals translating platform capabilities into practical role-specific use cases.

• Lead the design and delivery of AI training enablement programmes and adoption campaigns for administrative and business services staff across London and other EU/Asia offices.

• Build and maintain trusted relationships with EU/Asia business services leadership practice group administrators and regional stakeholders to drive habitual AI adoption.

• Partner with the Senior Manager AI Acceleration & Administrative Enablement and the broader global AI Enablement team to ensure EU/Asia programmes align with the firms global AI strategy while reflecting regional and local nuances.

• Track platform updates new AI tool releases and vendor roadmaps providing early assessment of relevance to business services workflows.

Main Responsibilities (not exhaustive)

AI Platform Expertise

• Maintain expert-level hands-on fluency with Claude Harvey Gemini and other AI and legal AI platforms adopted by the firm including new features prompt engineering techniques and known platform limitations.

• Serve as an escalation point for advanced or unusual platform questions from business services staff across EU/Asia.

• Evaluate new AI tools and platform updates representing administrative and business services user needs in vendor discussions and firm-wide platform evaluations.

• Translate platform capabilities into role-specific workflows and use cases for practice assistants secretaries and other administrative teams.

Training & Enablement Delivery

• Design and deliver in-person and virtual training sessions workshops and drop-in office hours for London and EU/Asia-based business services staff.

• Develop training materials playbooks quick-reference guides and recorded content tailored to EU/Asia audiences.

• Track training participation and platform usage/adoption metrics and report on outcomes to firm leadership.

Change Management & Stakeholder Engagement

• Build and maintain relationships with London and EU/Asia business services leadership office managers and department heads to identify enablement priorities and address adoption barriers.

• Support change management planning for AI-related technology rollouts affecting EU/Asia administrative teams.

• Act as regional liaison between the global AI Enablement team and EU/Asia offices ensuring regional feedback informs the firms global AI strategy.

Collaboration & Mentorship

• Collaborate with business services groups to incorporate AI legal technology or find other opportunities to streamline and increase workflow efficiencies wherever possible.

• Provide guidance and informal mentorship to administrative staff developing their own AI fluency and to junior enablement team members as the team scales.

• Collaborate with Legal Technology Portfolio Strategy and Ops IT Information Security Compliance and other teams on responsible compliant use of AI tools involving firm and client data.

Person Specification

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in promoting change through the adoption of technology change management and business process improvement in professional organisations.

• Demonstrated expert-level hands-on proficiency with Claude Gemini ChatGPT Copilot and Harvey plus working knowledge of other generative AI and legal AI platforms able to train others troubleshoot advanced use cases and speak credibly to platform capabilities and limitations.

• Prior experience designing and delivering technology training programmes to non-technical professional audiences.

• Strong understanding of the working practices of legal administrative and business services teams.

• Familiarity with UK/EU data protection considerations (UK GDPR) as they relate to AI tool usage is a plus.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable presenting to senior stakeholders.

• Right to work in the UK/EU required.

Location & Travel

• Based in the firms London office; working arrangement in line with firm policy (typically 34 days per week in-office).

• Frequent travel to other EU offices and periodically to other global offices for team meetings and training.

Weil offers a competitive compensation package which comprises of base salary and discretionary year-end bonus (for eligible employees). Benefits include but are not limited to Contributory Pension Scheme Life Assurance (4 x annual salary) Income Protection Scheme Private Medical Insurance GP Service 25 days holiday Subsidised Staff Restaurant Health Screening Annual Well Being Allowance On-site Gym Employee Assistance Programme and Season Ticket Loan.

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