--- title: 'Legal Engagement Manager at Centari' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/legal-engagement-manager-centari-new-york-bhwqg819q4pg' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # Legal Engagement Manager at Centari - **Company:** Centari - **Location:** New York, NY - **Compensation:** $110k–$150k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-08-11 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/centari/b13eb635-1995-4f0e-864b-7174836fa7b3 ## Job description ## ABOUT CENTARI At Centari, we're transforming the world's contracts into actionable intelligence. Every firm has the same AI now. What separates them is institutional intelligence: how the firm has structured deals, priced risk, and navigated markets across every transaction it has closed. It’s why a client picks one law firm over another, and why an LP backs one fund over the next. And today, this knowledge sits buried in closed deals and in the heads of the people who worked on them. Centari brings it to the surface as structured data that AI can act on, empowering companies to generate new revenue and see opportunities no one else can. The most demanding transactional practices in the world are already building on Centari, including deal teams at Ropes & Gray, DLA Piper, Willkie, Fried Frank, and Wilson Sonsini. We proved it in law. Finance and the enterprise face the same problem at even greater scale, and we're going after all of it. We raised an oversubscribed Series A from investors including Sentinel Global, GTMfund, South Park Commons, Jack Altman, RiverPark Capital, and Recall Capital, and now we're building the team to match our ambition. For more information, check out http://centari.com/centari.com http://centari.com or find us on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/centariapp/. ## ABOUT THE ROLE We are hiring a Legal Engagement Manager on our Customer team, bridging Centari's AI technology and our AmLaw 100 client base by working directly with senior legal executives to define data requirements and expand value. You will lead the project management of Centari’s client-facing engagements, translating complex client needs into technical requirements, with the ability to build trusted advisor relationships with partners at the world's most prestigious firms. While you will collaborate closely with our technical teams to deliver solutions, your primary focus is as the face of Centari's implementation team to our enterprise clients, driving successful rollouts and building long-term partnerships. ## WHAT YOU'LL OWN - Client delivery. Every active engagement runs on time, at quality, and with the client fully informed. When something slips, you see it first and fix it preemptively. - The operational infrastructure. The workflows, templates, and tracking systems that let our implementation team scale engagements without creating chaos. You build what doesn't exist and improve what does. - The health of the portfolio. On-time deliveries, client satisfaction, open requests, and escalations are your numbers. You own the answer when someone asks how a specific implementation project is going. - Client-to-team translation. You are the path between what a client needs and what our Applied Legal Research team builds. Requirements that reach the team from you are specific, prioritized, and actionable. - Business reviews. You prepare and run the reviews that show clients the value of what's been delivered, document ROI, and support conversations about what comes next. ## WHAT YOU BRING - You have run a complex, multi-stakeholder project end to end where the path wasn't clear at the start. Come with the specific example: what you inherited, what you decided, what it cost, what it produced. - 4+ years in project management, client engagement, or operations in enterprise software, professional services, or a similarly high-complexity service environment. - You have worked at an early-stage company where the processes you needed didn't exist yet. Come with an example of something you built from scratch and why it held up. - You've managed multiple concurrent client workstreams under competing priorities and delivered on time without cutting quality. - Strong executive-level communication to run meetings with key stakeholders and write a crisp status update in the same afternoon. - Based in NYC or willing to relocate. - Familiarity with how law firms operate — their hierarchy, workflows, practice groups, and what senior attorneys actually care about — is preferred, though not a requirement. ## WHAT WE OFFER - Competitive salary and meaningful equity - Comprehensive health coverage (Centari covers 100% of employee premiums) - Dental and vision (Centari covers 75% of employee premiums) - 401(k) with match up to 4% - Lunch covered for in-office team - Flexible PTO ## About Centari ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Centari is an AI-powered deal intelligence platform that transforms complex legal and financial documents into structured, searchable data for law firms and investment funds. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, raised $14M in October 2025) - **Headquarters**: New York, New York, USA - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: Kevin Walker (CEO) and Junyuan Lau (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Legal technology / Enterprise AI for dealmaking - **Target customers**: Law firms (transactional practices), investment funds (finance, IR, compliance), and corporate legal departments – predominantly B2B/Enterprise - **Mission**: “We believe that access to the right information changes everything. When you unlock the full potential of your proprietary deal data, you unlock economic growth.” ## Products & Services - **Deal Reasoning Engine**: A patent-pending AI system that processes agreements of any length or complexity with attorney-level precision, converting documents into structured data. - **Proprietary Deal Database**: A private, searchable repository that stores a firm’s historical deal data, enabling precedent searches, clause comparisons, and portfolio analytics. - **Deal Intelligence Platform**: A full-stack SaaS solution that surfaces market insights, negotiation context, and risk indicators from internal documents, supporting workflows for legal, IR, finance, and compliance teams. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $14M (Series A, October 2025, led by Sentinel Global; preceded by a $2M+ seed round in July 2024) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sentinel Global (lead), Jeremy Kranz (former DoorDash board member), Andy Appelbaum (Seamless co-founder), Jack Altman, South Park Commons, Recall Capital, GTMfund - **Growth Signals**: - 35 employees as of mid-2025 (up from a small founding team); headcount growing across Engineering, Sales, GTM, and Legal Research roles. - Recently opened a second office in Singapore for applied legal research. - SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified – enterprise-grade security. - Serving “leading global law firms” across M&A, debt finance, asset management, and real estate. ## Competitive Advantages - **Attorney-level precision**: The Deal Reasoning Engine is calibrated by domain experts, not just general LLMs, yielding higher accuracy on complex legal documents. - **Data privacy & security**: SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified; data is never used for training, never commingled, and fully under customer control. - **Institutional knowledge compounding**: Converts every closed deal into a searchable asset that grows over time, creating a proprietary data moat for each firm. - **Patent-pending technology**: Unique approach to structuring unstructured deal documents. ## Strategic Focus - Deepen product adoption in large law firms and investment funds, particularly in M&A, finance, and asset management. - Expand geographic presence (e.g., Singapore office) to serve APAC clients. - Continue building out the platform’s agentic features and analytics capabilities (reporting, visualizations, portfolio reviews). - Scale the go-to-market team (Enterprise AE, BDR, Strategic Growth Lead roles posted). ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Values-driven team that emphasizes “radical ownership,” “curiosity, adaptability, and speed,” and “measure success by results, not process.” Hybrid and remote-friendly with offices in New York and Singapore. - **Perks**: Competitive compensation including equity, 401(k) matching, health/dental/vision insurance, flexible time off, and a focus on merit-based rewards. - **Engineering culture**: Deep technical challenges in AI, legal NLP, and document processing; a collaborative cross-functional team of attorneys, financial professionals, and engineers. - **Growth opportunity**: Early-stage (35 employees, Series A) with strong investor backing; roles offer significant ownership and impact. ## Sources 1. [centari.com](https://www.centari.com/) 2. [centari.com/about-us](https://www.centari.com/about-us) 3. [builtin.com/company/centari](https://builtin.com/company/centari) 4. [linkedin.com/company/centari-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/centari-ai) 5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/centari](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/centari) ## Other roles at Centari - [Head of Law Firm Growth](https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-law-firm-growth-centari-new-york-gwf8hv6g6nd1) — New York, NY - [Founding GTM Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-gtm-lead-centari-new-york-dwpf9tjfysj5) — New York, NY - [Senior Software Engineer, AI](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-ai-centari-new-york-swf5kg02xabb) — New York, NY - [Senior Software Engineer, Backend](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-backend-centari-new-york-343t81eh00cf) — New York, NY - [Counsel, Applied Legal Research (Singapore)](https://feeny.ai/job/counsel-applied-legal-research-singapore-centari-singapore-zw1yqpsbtesc) — Singapore