Director, AI

Join Goodwin’s Global Operations Team, and make a real impact on a global scale. At Goodwin, we work with some of the world’s most successful and innovative investors, entrepreneurs and disruptors in the life sciences, private equity, real estate, technology and financial industries, and where they converge. As part of the Global Operations Team – all business professionals at the firm – you’ll collaborate with colleagues from varied backgrounds and experiences, fostering an environment where cross-functional learning, networking, and collaboration are at the core of what we do.
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This is your opportunity to grow professionally in a dynamic, global environment, surrounded by forward-thinking peers.

Goodwin is seeking a Director of AI to lead the design and deployment of proprietary AI model 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 demonstrate the ability to balance long-term AI solution roadmap planning, with day-to-day engineering execution, and hands-on technical oversight.

What You Will Do:

• 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 privilege 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, user guidelines.

Who You Are:

• Preference will be given to candidates with experience in regulated industries such as financial services, legal, or healthcare, where compliance, big data, and ethical AI practices are critical to success.

• 10+years building ML/AI products; 4+ years leading applied ML/LLM teams

• Hands-on with modern LLM stacks, vector search, orchestration frameworks

• Strong data engineering foundations (Python, PyTorch, Spark, SQL); MLOps (Docker, feature store, model registry)

• Demonstrated experience with high sensitivity data and regulated deployments (privacy, privilege and auditability)

• Great stakeholder management skills with attorneys / partners and business leaders.

• Proven record translating ambiguity into shipped systems.

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Benefits and More

At Goodwin, you will discover your next career opportunity with a rewarding compensation package and comprehensive benefits, including:

• Flexible work arrangements and hybrid work schedule

• Health, dental, and vision insurance

• Life and disability insurance

• Retirement & Savings Plan

• Emergency back-up child and adult care

• Paid vacation, sick time off, and holidays

• Professional development and career advancement opportunities

• Employee recognition and reward programs

• Employee wellness and assistance programs

• Employee discounts and perks

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