Legal AI Counsel (Zurich) in Zürich

Legartis is on a mission: to unlock legal work at scale.

Today we build a holistic platform that changes how legal teams operate from review to negotiation, powered by our Legal Agent. We are a team of product builders and legal experts. This is not a classic legal role, and not a classic sales or product role. You operate at the intersection of Law, Revenue, and AI, where you are a lever, not a bottleneck: your job is to build the demos, playbooks, and standards that let the whole company scale, and to step into the calls where your expertise closes the gap.

You build and run demos that create a „wow“ moment, join high-stakes prospect calls as the legal expert who speaks at eye level with GCs, and run our trials and workshops: onboarding sessions where customers solve their own use cases live, with you coaching. You turn objections into use cases and interest into next steps, and you enable our Sales team to tell the legal story without you in the room. Once a deal is signed, you make the value real by acting as a strategic sparring partner in onboarding: defining review requirements, tuning playbooks and prompts, and showing legal teams where Legartis delivers the highest ROI. You work hands-on with the Legal Agent: prompting, testing, diagnosing where it breaks and why. You feed what you learn from customers back into Product and Engineering (playbook quality, test sets, edge cases) so the product improves with every customer.

Internal legal support. When necessary, you support Legartis as in-house counsel on contract reviews and specific legal questions.

We hire for aptitude and attitude, assess hands-on in a case study, and train the rest side by side, in real customer work.

In trials and hackathons, the customer drives and you navigate: you get them to enter their own real legal questions, create the first „wow“ moment themselves, and build the habits (saved prompts, reusable workflows) that make them stay.

When a customer says „that won’t work for us“ or „we’ll build it ourselves,“ you respond with a concrete path: a workaround, a workflow, the honest maintenance cost of the alternative. Speak at eye level with GCs and legal teams asking sharp discovery questions, translating their friction points into what the product can do, and framing value in their language (ROI, risk, time saved).

Legal foundation. Solid legal training and hands-on experience with commercial contracts from in-house, law firm, or legal tech. A German 2. Staatsexamen is welcome but not required : we explicitly encourage candidates with qualifications from other jurisdictions or non-traditional paths (e.g. law + IT).

You are structured enough to run projects with multiple stakeholders, and precise enough to know that a sharp prompt beats a thousand vague instructions. Excellent German and English; other languages are a plus.

You define a new discipline at the intersection of law, revenue, and AI. Your work directly shapes how thousands of legal professionals will operate.

Structured training on the Legal Agent, side-by-side customer calls, and a clear growth path — we build the capability the market doesn’t have yet.

Get to know each other: a chat with our People & Operations Manager.

# Deep dive with our General Counsel & Head of Legal AI into Legal Engineering at Legartis.

# Case study: real tasks at the crossroads of legal thinking, AI prompting, and making the commercial case to a customer .

# Our SaaS solution uses artificial intelligence to automate contract review for legal departments and law firms. We are a growing and ambitious team on a mission to eliminate repetitive tasks in everyday legal work. Since our founding in 2017, we have won various awards such as the Swiss Fintech Awards, been listed as a Top100 startup in Switzerland and named by Forbes as one of the best AI startups in the DACH region.