--- title: 'Senior lawyer (USA) at Alaro' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-lawyer-usa-alaro-new-york-nzmhb86exzbx' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-10' --- # Senior lawyer (USA) at Alaro - **Company:** Alaro - **Location:** New York, NY - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-07-31 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/alaro/cfa2e22f-f4df-4889-bf87-a497922a5875 ## Job description Senior Lawyer New York · Full-time, permanent · Reports to Willem Jongert, CEO A lawyer embedded in Alaro's legal team. Take the workflow, execute it to top-firm standard, and codify it so the agents take it from you. 01 About Alaro Alaro is the AI operating partner for business-critical work, starting with legal. We turn recurring, document-heavy processes into reliable AI-enabled operations - scoped by legal experts, managed as an extension of the team, and improved with every matter. Founded in 2025 by Willem (ex-Paul Hastings PE, Cambridge) and Igor (ex-Monzo ML, Cambridge). Backed by tier-one VCs. Work monitored by our licensed attorneys. Fixed fee. No retainers. We have processed $5bn of legal work to date, with anchor clients including a £2.4bn London real estate developer, an elite US law firm, and international banks. The US entity is live in New York. The US market is next. 02 The role Legal execution capacity is the bottleneck on Alaro's growth, and this seat removes it. You sit inside Alaro's legal team. When a client sends a new workflow - a matter type, a document set, a recurring process - you pick it up, execute the legal work to the standard of the firm you trained at, and in parallel you codify it: a steps plan precise enough that our agents take the work over and you never have to do it manually again. The benchmark mindset on the team is simple. The first question our best lawyers ask when handed new work is "how do I create a steps plan so I don't have to do it?" You do the work and you automate yourself out of it, workflow by workflow, then move to the next one. Quality never drops while you do. Clients get top-firm output from day one, whether it came from you or the agents you trained. What this role is not: it is not a GTM seat, not a client-implementation seat, and not a product-onboarding seat. The relationship is owned by GTM. The work is owned by you. We are hiring a practising lawyer with an automation obsession, not a legal technologist who stopped practising. If your instinct on receiving new work is to build the machine that does it, keep reading. 03 What you'll own - Execution of client legal work, end to end, at the standard of a top-tier firm - from day one, unsupervised - The steps plan: codifying every workflow you touch into a process precise enough for the agents to take over - Scoping and mapping new workflows from the historical documents clients send - what the work is, how it is judged, where the edge cases live - Quality monitoring of agent output on workflows you have codified. Your name stays on the standard - The feedback loop to engineering: what the agents get wrong, what the steps plan missed, what to build next 04 Who we're looking for - Trained and qualified at a top-tier firm - Paul Hastings, Kirkland & Ellis, Allen & Overy, a Magic Circle firm, or an elite US firm of the Skadden tier. The kind of training where sloppy work gets spotted instinctively - Roughly 3-8 years' PQE, or junior-to-mid-level associate in US terms. Experienced enough to know what good client output looks like, early enough to be driven by automation rather than by traditional career milestones - Transactional background preferred over litigation. A preference, not a hard requirement - Able to pick up unfamiliar work and codify it quickly. Handed a matter type you have never run, you work out how it is judged and turn it into a repeatable process - Process-obsessed and automation-driven. Your instinct on any recurring task is the steps plan, not the grind - Commercially pragmatic. You understand what the client is paying for and calibrate the output to that, without being asked - Comfortable doing the work manually while you build the automation. Quality holds in both modes 05 How we work OUTPUT, NOT HOURS We measure work by the matter closed, not the time recorded. No timesheets, no billable targets, no incentive to be slow. RIGOUR WITH SPEED Speed is expected; quality is non-negotiable. AI does the heavy lifting so the judgment work gets the attention it deserves. AUTOMATE YOURSELF FORWARD The best work you do here is work nobody has to do again. Every workflow you codify compounds - for you, the team, and the client. BUILD THE FIRM WITH US You shape playbooks, tooling, hiring and direction. The work you do now sets the standard the next ten lawyers operate to. ## About Alaro ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Alaro is an AI-native law firm that delivers corporate, funds, and commercial legal work—specialising in high-stakes contract review, legal due diligence, and repeatable workflows—powered by senior lawyers and intelligent systems. - **Entity Type**: Private (Venture Capital-Backed; Seed Stage) - **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom (offices also in New York, NY) - **Founded**: 2025 - **Founders**: Not publicly listed ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Legal Services (B2B) / Legal Tech - **Target customers**: Investment funds, financial institutions, corporates needing high-stakes contract review, due diligence, and corporate/commercial legal support - **Mission or purpose statement**: To rebuild how legal work operates—combining elite legal judgment with intelligent systems to deliver clarity, speed, and accountability that modern businesses demand. AI is an internal amplifier, not a product or a substitute for judgment. ## Products & Services - **AI-Native Legal Services**: Premium legal work (corporate, funds, commercial) delivered by senior lawyers with AI-powered document review and workflow tools. Key services include demand counsel, real-time compliance monitoring, contract drafting, legal due diligence, and audit. - **Intelligent Legal Platform**: An internal, AI-driven operating model that enables 10× faster document review times and 100% document coverage across large due diligence transactions. The technology is a behind-the-scenes amplifier, never sold as a standalone product. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total funding of $9M raised across 2 seed rounds (latest seed round of $7M completed; status: Generating Revenue) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Concept Ventures, Credo Ventures (both venture capital firms, minority holdings) - **Growth Signals**: - Founded in 2025 and has already raised significant seed capital from prominent European VCs. - Claims over $25M+ in deal value reviewed (live counter). - Expanding operations with job postings for Associates, Partners, Operations, and Engineering roles in both London and New York. - Hiring aggressively for a young company (7 employees per PitchBook, but 13+ jobs listed, indicating rapid scaling). ## Competitive Advantages - **True AI-native model**: AI is deeply embedded into the operating model, not bolted on as a marketing gimmick. This enables 10× faster turnaround without sacrificing quality. - **Elite legal talent**: Employs senior lawyers who practice law, not manage process—the firm explicitly positions itself as "supercharged" by AI, not replaced by it. - **Speed and Precision as engineered deliverables**: The firm has built operational systems around fast turnaround and meticulous accuracy, treating speed as a calculated deliverable rather than a rushed reaction. - **Accountability framework**: Every matter has a single point of responsibility and a clear path to completion—a differentiator in a traditionally opaque industry. ## Strategic Focus - **Building the next generation of legal services** by combining senior legal expertise with intelligent systems. - **Scaling operations** in both London and New York, with active hiring across legal, engineering, and operations roles. - **Challenging an industry that hasn't changed in decades** by redesigning processes from scratch rather than accepting legacy workflows. - **Hiring people who care about outcomes, not process**—the company is actively recruiting lawyers, engineers, and operators who want to work at the frontier of law and technology. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Described as a place where "clarity, speed, and leverage matter" and where "quality is not optional." Employees are expected to challenge existing processes and redesign them for impact. - **Work Model**: Hybrid/Remote-flexible. Offices in London (hybrid) and New York (hybrid/in-office or remote). The company is described as a "Remote Workspace" overall with 2 office locations. - **Who Thrives**: Lawyers who want to practice law, not manage process; engineers applying AI in high-stakes environments; operators designing clean, scalable organizations. - **Perks & Environment**: Opportunity to work at the frontier of AI and law, with real-world consequences and high-impact work for top-tier clients. The firm is small (~7 employees) but hiring rapidly, offering significant ownership and early-stage influence. ## Sources 1. [alaro.ai](https://www.alaro.ai/) 2. [alaro.ai/careers](https://www.alaro.ai/careers) 3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/alaro) 4. [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/1172025-64) 5. 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