Full-Time
Legal Engineer
Privacy & Compliance
Wordsmith AI
51-200 employees
Legal intake, triage, drafting AI platform
No salary listed
London, UK + 1 more
More locations: Edinburgh, UK
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In-person role based in Edinburgh or London; office attendance is the default.
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- Deep privacy and compliance knowledge, with a strong command of privacy law and/or the wider compliance picture, including areas such as artificial intelligence governance, security, financial regulation, or employment law.
- Either qualification as a lawyer or substantial expertise as a privacy/compliance specialist, with comfort working across adjacent legal areas.
- Strong artificial intelligence literacy, including day-to-day use and reasoning about artificial intelligence tools and a clear understanding of their capabilities and limitations.
- Ability to turn messy legal, privacy, or compliance requirements into structured and workable solutions.
- Confidence working directly with clients to understand legal and compliance problems and build or demonstrate solutions in pre-sales and post-sales settings.
- Several years of experience in privacy law or compliance practice, ideally at a mid-to-senior level, with the proactivity to work independently.
- Build privacy and compliance products by translating legal, privacy, and compliance requirements into structured, workable solutions that an artificial intelligence agent can execute.
- Own and shape the privacy and compliance product vertical and determine how it is built.
- Support pre-sales by meeting customers, understanding their problems, and building or demonstrating solutions.
- Apply privacy law and the wider regulatory, governance, and compliance landscape to customer problems.
- Build general legal products beyond the core privacy and compliance focus when required.
- Use Wordsmith's platform to build solutions without coding while applying a confident, hands-on understanding of current artificial intelligence capabilities.
- Experience in legal technology, regulatory technology, or a software-as-a-service environment.
- Breadth across the compliance landscape, including security frameworks such as ISO 27001 and SOC 2, artificial intelligence governance regimes such as the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, or broader governance, risk, and compliance.
- Awareness of or exposure to legal practice beyond privacy and compliance.
- Hands-on building experience, such as prompt design, workflow automation, low-code tools, or similar.
Wordsmith AI is an in-house legal platform that acts as a central intake and workflow for all legal requests across a business. It auto-triages and routes requests based on priority, revenue impact, and jurisdiction, pulling context from tools like Salesforce, Slack, and Ironclad to draft redlines and flag issues, then records the outcome back in the originating system. It learns a team’s standards so routine matters are resolved automatically, with only complex issues reaching lawyers; it covers contract review and drafting, an AI assistant, AI agents, reporting, repositories, legal research, and intake, with integrations to Word, Slack, Microsoft 365, and MCP. Its goal is to speed up turnaround, reduce outside counsel spend, and make the legal operation more efficient and auditable.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$114M
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2023
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- August 5, 2026 extension added $14 million, funding North American and regulated-sector expansion.
- Wordsmith says revenue grew 14x year-on-year and serves over 500 customers in 2026.
- The September 2026 iManage partnership expands distribution through shared customers and joint go-to-market.
What critics are saying
- Legal AI commoditizes fast; Microsoft Copilot and point tools squeeze Wordsmith pricing by 2027.
- Wordsmith's enterprise promise depends on integrations with iManage, Salesforce, Slack, and Ironclad.
- A security breach or bad redline at Starling or BT would damage trust and stall renewals.
What makes Wordsmith AI unique
- Wordsmith runs legal intake-to-resolution workflows, not isolated drafting tools, as of 2026.
- Starling and Trustpilot use Wordsmith across multiple legal functions, proving operating-model breadth.
- The September 2, 2026 iManage integration gives Wordsmith governed knowledge access without new repositories.
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↓ -12%Wordsmith appoints Simon McCarthy as VP of Transformation. Legal technology veteran joins Wordsmith to build its enterprise transformation capability as AI reshapes how legal teams operate. Wordsmith AI Ltd is announcing today that Wordsmith AI Ltd has appointed Simon McCarthy as VP of Transformation, bringing one of the legal technology industry's most experienced transformation leaders into its business as Wordsmith AI Ltd expand its work with global enterprises. Simon's experience in legal transformation. Simon joins Wordsmith AI Ltd with 15 years of experience in legal technology and transformation and has worked across more than 150 enterprise Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) and legal transformation programmes spanning financial services, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, healthcare and other complex industries. He joins Wordsmith AI Ltd having worked across every side of enterprise legal transformation: leading change from within corporate legal teams, building legal technology products, advising organisations as a consultant, and helping technology vendors deliver complex transformation programmes. Wordsmith AI Ltd is welcoming Simon from ContractPodAI, where he most recently led Enterprise Transformation. Previously, he was Director of Contracting Transformation Services at KPMG UK and Director of Product Management at Exari, which was subsequently acquired by Coupa. He also founded CLM Nexus, an independent advisory business focused on CLM strategy and transformation. Why transformation matters now. Wordsmith AI Ltd is making this appointment as generative and agentic AI changes both what legal technology can do and what enterprises need from their technology providers. As AI platforms become increasingly powerful and configurable, Wordsmith AI Ltd see the challenge for legal teams shifting from selecting software features to deciding where and how AI should change the way legal work gets done: which processes to redesign, what to automate, where human judgement should remain, how to manage risk, and how to turn new capabilities into measurable business outcomes. As Simon explains, this changes both the questions legal teams need to ask and the role technology providers must play. "The technology has reached a point where it can be configured to do extraordinary things. The hardest question is no longer simply what the product can do - it's what we should do with it. AI is blurring the traditional boundary between product and transformation. Vendors need to understand the operating model they're helping to create, not just the technology they're deploying. And that means working differently with both customers and partners, bringing together deep product knowledge, transformation expertise and the specialist capabilities needed to make change successful at enterprise scale." Ross McNairn, its co-founder and CEO, said the appointment reflects its ambition to take greater responsibility for the outcomes its technology creates. "We're not asking legal teams to buy another piece of software. We're giving them the ability to fundamentally rethink how legal work happens across their organisation. That makes transformation expertise incredibly important. Simon has spent his career on the customer, consulting, product and vendor sides of this problem. He understands how to connect technology to operating-model change and measurable outcomes and how vendors, customers and partners need to work together to make that change stick." Building its enterprise transformation capability. Simon will lead its enterprise transformation capability, working with its customers and partners from the earliest stages of strategy and solution design through implementation, adoption and value realisation. Through this function, Wordsmith AI Ltd'll help enterprises understand their current maturity, define the target operating model for AI-enabled legal services, identify and prioritise high-value use cases, redesign processes, establish governance and define clear measures of success. Wordsmith AI Ltd is making this appointment after a period of rapid growth. Wordsmith AI Ltd recently announced a $70m Series B and subsequent $14m Series B extension. Wordsmith AI Ltd has grown revenue 14x year-on-year, and more than 500 customers now use its platform, including BT, FT, Sage, Starling, Deliveroo, Canva and Safelite. FEATURE SECTION BOOK A DEMO Ready to transform your legal department? See how the world's leading legal teams are building the future of in-house legal.
iManage and Wordsmith AI partner to connect trusted legal knowledge with agentic workflows. CHICAGO & NEW YORK, September 2nd 2026: In-house legal teams are absorbing more contracts, more questions and more risk every quarter, with headcount that rarely keeps pace. The tools meant to help often add a step rather than remove one. Work still has to be found, opened, drafted, checked and filed back by hand. Today, iManage and Wordsmith AI announced a technology partnership designed to help corporate legal teams get more value from the knowledge and work product they already manage in iManage. Wordsmith AI is joining the iManage Technology Partner Program, connecting its agentic legal workflows with the next-generation iManage platform, the AI-ready knowledge foundation for legal teams. The next-generation iManage platform brings AI into the flow of work while building toward a context fabric - a governed intelligence layer that connects an organization's documents, matters, people and institutional knowledge. Its open architecture is designed to enable approved AI tools, like Wordsmith AI, to access the trusted knowledge they need without requiring organisations to establish a new repository for every AI application. The partnership brings together two complementary capabilities: iManage provides the trusted knowledge foundation for legal work, while Wordsmith applies agentic workflows to tasks including drafting, review and answering routine legal questions. Through the integration, Wordsmith can securely access relevant content through iManage APIs. This enables customers to leverage that knowledge within Wordsmith's agentic workflows, with plans to return resulting work product back to iManage in future releases. "Corporate legal teams are building increasingly diverse AI ecosystems, and they need a governed foundation underneath them," said Ryan Begin, Vice President, Technology Partnerships and Ecosystem Strategy at iManage. "Our open architecture gives customers the flexibility to use great, specialised AI products while getting more value from the knowledge already held in iManage. Wordsmith AI is a strong example of that ecosystem in action - bringing agentic legal workflows together with the governed content and context that corporate legal teams rely on." "In-house legal teams already rely on iManage to hold critical matter content and institutional knowledge," said Ross McNairn, CEO and co-founder of Wordsmith AI. "Connecting Wordsmith to that knowledge gives our agents access to the context they need to support meaningful legal work, while enabling teams to bring resulting work product back into the systems they already depend on. We are not here to help lawyers search a little faster. We are here to take the request, do the work, and hand it back finished." What the integration delivers. The integration is built for in-house legal teams and connects Wordsmith's agents to the next generation iManage platform. It is designed to help corporate legal teams connect agentic workflows with the governed content and context already managed in iManage. * Work, not just retrieval: Wordsmith agents deliver substantive work, drafted, reviewed, redlined, within the workflow. Lawyers get finished-quality output ready for approval and sign-off, not raw material requiring assembly. * Intake to output in one flow: Requests triggered at intake route straight to the right agent, with matter workspaces created and populated automatically, so nothing is set up by hand. * Built on a trusted knowledge foundation: iManage remains the system where customers manage and govern their legal knowledge and work product. The integration enables Wordsmith AI to access relevant iManage content through supported APIs, helping agents work from an organisation's own legal knowledge rather than generic information alone. * Built for the in-house reality: Designed around the volume, mix and pace of corporate legal work, where a small team handles a long tail of contracts and queries. Availability. The iManage integration is offered to shared Wordsmith and iManage customers. Contact your Wordsmith account manager to discuss how iManage can be incorporated into your Wordsmith workflows. Joint go-to-market activity and enablement for in-house legal teams will follow over the course of the year. Media contacts iManage: [email protected] Wordsmith AI: [email protected] FEATURE SECTION BOOK A DEMO Ready to transform your legal department? See how the world's leading legal teams are building the future of in-house legal.
Wordsmith raises $14M in Series B extension funding. August 5, 2026 Wordsmith, an Edinburgh, Scotland, UK-based provider of an AI platform built exclusively for in-house legal teams, raised $14M in Series B extension funding The round was led by Intact Private Capital with participation from FT Ventures, Highland Europe, and Index Ventures. The company intends to use the funds to deepen its presence in North America and strengthen its footprint in the financial services and insurance sectors. Led by CEO Ross McNairn, Wordsmith provides a system of action designed for in-house legal teams to handle legal work internally, control outside counsel spend, and accelerate business support. Their platform codifies a legal team's judgment and carries work from request to resolution by receiving requests across the organization, routing them with context, resolving routine work using AI agents and approved playbooks, bringing in lawyers when judgment is required, and recording every step as work happens. The company has additional offices in London, UK and NYC. Don't just read the news. Own the data. Stop manually tracking deals. Access this round and over 100 others this week - in our structured Master Database (XML) + Weekly Intelligence PDF. [Access FinSMEs Intelligence Hub] 05/08/2026
Wordsmith AI raises $14m extension to their Series B. * August 5, 2026 Edinburgh founded legal AI company Wordsmith AI today announced a $14m extension to their $70m Series B, led by new investment from Intact Private Capital alongside existing investors Highland Europe and Index Ventures. FT Ventures has also become a shareholder in Wordsmith. Founded in 2023 by CEO Ross McNairn, CTO Volodymyr Giginiak and COO Robbie Falkenthal, Wordsmith focuses exclusively on corporate legal departments rather than law firms. Its platform uses AI agents to organise, route and complete legal work across the business, integrating with systems such as email, Slack, Microsoft Teams and Salesforce to automate routine legal tasks and enable legal teams to handle more work internally. The additional investment is said to follow a period of rapid growth for Wordsmith. Revenue has grown 14x year over year and the platform is now used by more than 500 companies, including BT, FT, Sage, Starling, Canva, and Safelite. It is anticipated that the funding will deepen Wordsmith's presence in North America, where demand from enterprise legal teams is accelerating, and strengthens its footprint in the financial services and insurance sectors. Justin Smith-Lorenzetti, managing director at Intact Private Capital, said: "In-house legal teams at financial services and insurance companies need legal infrastructure that can operate at enterprise scale while maintaining the control and auditability required in highly regulated environments. Wordsmith is built precisely for that challenge, with a deep understanding of how these organizations work and the infrastructure to match."
Edinburgh-based legal AI startup Wordsmith has secured $14m in a Series B extension round, bringing its total Series B funding to $84m. Index Ventures and FT Ventures participated in the extension. The legaltech company, which was founded in Edinburgh, develops AI-powered tools for the legal sector. The additional capital will support the company's continued expansion in the legal technology market.