Director, Head of Legal Innovation

Director, Head of Legal Innovation BUILDING THE FUTURE OF CRYPTO Our Krakenites are a world-class team with crypto conviction, united by our desire to discover and unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology. What makes us different? Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values. As a Krakenite, you’ll join us on our mission to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. For over a decade, Kraken’s focus on our mission and crypto ethos has attracted many of the most talented crypto experts in the world. Before you apply, please read the Kraken Culture https://www.kraken.com/culture page to learn more about our internal culture, values, and mission. We also expect candidates to familiarize themselves with the Kraken app. Learn how to create a Kraken account here https://support.kraken.com/hc/en-us/articles/226090548-How-to-create-an-account-on-Kraken. As a fully remote company, we have Krakenites in 70+ countries who speak over 50 languages. Krakenites are industry pioneers who develop premium crypto products for experienced traders, institutions, and newcomers to the space. Kraken is committed to industry-leading security https://blog.kraken.com/crypto-education/security-at-kraken, crypto education https://blog.kraken.com/category/crypto-education, and world-class client support https://blog.kraken.com/crypto-education/support-at-kraken through our products like Kraken Pro https://pro.kraken.com/, Desktop https://www.kraken.com/desktop, Wallet https://www.kraken.com/wallet, and Kraken Futures https://www.kraken.com/features/futures. Become a Krakenite and build the future of crypto! PROOF OF WORK THE TEAM Kraken’s Legal Department is deploying AI across all four of its major practice groups — Regulatory, Litigation, Commercial, and Labor & Employment — with a detailed strategy, shared infrastructure, and a phased roadmap already defined. We are hiring a Director, Head of Legal Innovation to serve as the primary architect and builder of AI-powered solutions within the Legal team. This is a full-stack ownership role spanning opportunity identification, solution design, deployment, governance, and capability transfer. You will work strategically to automate legal workflows while building the team’s data-driven infrastructure across multiple practice groups. This role is ideal for someone who builds production systems, not slide decks — someone who can configure a workflow in the morning, train a team on it in the afternoon, and measure its impact by end of quarter. THE OPPORTUNITY Design and deploy AI-powered Legal solutions - Architect and build agentic workflows using n8n, Claude API, and MCP that take real actions in legal processes — contract review, research, drafting, intake triage, reporting, and deadline monitoring — with appropriate human oversight and approval gates. - Design and deliver solutions across priority legal use cases: NDA triage, regulatory analysis, board deck preparation, matter reporting, obligation tracking, and separation agreement drafting. - Architect the integration layer connecting internal systems (Jira, Agiloft, GEMS, SimpleLegal, Google Drive, Slack) into automated, AI-powered workflows that serve multiple practice groups simultaneously. - Build error handling, audit trails, privilege-awareness, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints into every production system before deployment. - Assess how legal work currently flows across intake, matter management, contracting, research, advice, and reporting — identify where AI and automation can eliminate manual work and reduce cycle times. - Ensure all automations comply with data classification requirements for privileged legal work product, PII, and cross-jurisdictional privacy obligations including GDPR and applicable data retention rules. Own governance and risk for Legal AI systems - Classify all automation builds by risk tier before work begins. No ... (truncated, view full listing at source)