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# Special Projects Lead (India-Based) at August

- **Company:** August
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-05-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/august/089e48ab-b554-4ebe-872f-1312b6cdcc52

## Job description

THE WORLD’S LARGEST LAW FIRM WON’T BE A LAW FIRM. JOIN US IN BUILDING IT.

August allows law firms to compound their expertise by building an autonomous organization of AI agents that run the firm's knowledge work. We partner closely with our firms and grow alongside them through sharing revenue on our agents and equity in the firms we transform.

We believe that in five years, more than 95% of legal work will be concentrated among a select few elite law firms. The firms that get there will be the ones that rebuild how they deliver it. We're partnering with those firms and building the engine they run on to become the biggest legal service provider in the world.

We invest in partnerships, not just licenses. We sell finished legal work alongside our firms and take a share of what it earns. This enables them to scale their services and lets us grow along with it. That means we’re chasing the legal services market ($1T), which dwarfs the global legal tech market ($40b).

The problem is hard. An engine of agents sits underneath every matter we touch, connected to every step of a lawyer's workflow, in an industry where there is no margin for error. We’re challenged with building the perfectly accurate, infallibly secure, and yet all-powerful engine for legal work.

We're already live with several excellent firms and the early results are better than we expected. Lean team, in person, New York, backed by leading investors, growing fast.

Every role at August is a chance to remake an industry while the window is open.

The Opportunity

We are looking for someone who wants to work on a problem that matters. Not optimize a funnel. Not manage a pipeline. Work on a problem that actually matters — how AI gets adopted inside law firms and legal teams at scale, and what it takes to make that change stick.

The Special Projects Lead sits at the intersection of growth, strategy, and deployment. You will own the entire motion from first conversation to live workflows — helping clients understand what is possible, demonstrating the product, driving the deal, and staying accountable to outcomes long after the contract is signed. This is not a role for someone who wants to hand off and move on.

You will work directly with the founders, operate across every function — sales, customer success, and go-to-market — and shape the playbook for how August expands across India and beyond. The team is expanding massively, and the people who join now will define how we operate at scale. If you are energized by complexity, thrive in ambiguous environments, and want to see your work change how a profession operates, this role is for you.

## What You'll Do

- Meet with partners, senior counsel, and in-house legal teams to understand their most critical workflows and where they're losing time
- Lead product demonstrations and translate what you're seeing in the field into compelling cases for adoption
- Own deals end-to-end — from first conversation through commercial close
- Drive customer success post-deployment, ensuring the product creates real impact on day-to-day legal operations
- Lead training sessions, workflow design, and ongoing check-ins as clients expand to new practice groups and teams
- Represent August at conferences, industry events, and client sites across India (significant travel required)
- Work with the product and engineering teams to shape how field insights get built into August
- Scope new client opportunities across practice areas, firm sizes, and geographies

## What You'll Bring

- Significant experience at a tier 1 Indian law firm, ideally exceeding 4 years of post-qualification experience
- A track record of navigating complex, multi-stakeholder relationships and driving decisions through to outcomes
- Strong commercial instincts — you can quickly understand a client's business, identify the highest-leverage opportunities, and build a clear path forward
- Comfort working without a defined playbook and the judgment to build one from scratch
- The ability to communicate clearly across audiences — from associates to managing partners to in-house leadership
- Willingness and enthusiasm for significant travel

## Nice to Have

Prior exposure to legal operations, legal tech, or professional services. JD or legal industry background a plus.

Location

Remote (India).

## WHY JOIN AUGUST

- Founding Impact: Shape not just your role but the company.
- Uncapped Upside: Competitive base + commission, early equity ownership.
- Top-tier Team: Work alongside people who move fast, think clearly, and care deeply.
- Category-Defining Work: Help build the first true AI agents for the legal profession.
- Fast Growth: Scale your career as we scale the company.
- In-person in NYC: Collaborative, talent dense and high energy environment
- Global Reach: Our clients span 4 continents and use August in multiple languages and jurisdictions
- Frontier of Applied AI: August has access to proprietary data inaccessible to foundation model providers. We build agents to automate all challenging knowledge work.

## About August

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: August provides a configurable legal AI workspace for mid-sized law firms, enabling them to automate due diligence, document review, and firm knowledge search.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage – $7M raised)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Rutvik Rau (CEO & Co-Founder), Thomas Bueler-Faudree (Co-Founder), Joseph Parker (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Legal Technology (Legal AI)
- Target customers: Mid-sized law firms (B2B), also serves firms in real estate, healthcare, regulatory/ESG, capital markets, litigation, and corporate/M&A
- Mission: Build AI that mirrors each firm’s unique expertise so firms can take on more work, serve clients better, and run like the businesses they are

## Products & Services
- **[August Legal AI Workspace]**: A platform that includes an AI assistant, document research, review, drafting, and automated workflows. Key features: diligence summary, closing-checklist builder, clause drafting, contract comparison, and custom prompt/template libraries. Type: SaaS with configurable AI models (Llama, Anthropic, private OpenAI endpoints). Offers end-to-end encryption and SOC 2 compliance.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding: $7.0M (Seed round, September 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: NEA (lead), Pear VC (lead), Stanford Law School. Backed by additional investors from the seed round (7 investors total).
- **Growth Signals**: 1,500+ users; serving clients across five continents (North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia); headcount grew 262.5% YoY (from ~6 to 21 employees); 12 active job postings as of mid-2026; expanding into Canada, Australia, Africa, and India.

## Competitive Advantages
- Model-agnostic approach (supports Llama, Anthropic, OpenAI) – firms are not locked into one AI provider.
- Deep customization: AI is trained on each firm’s own precedents, templates, and guidelines, matching internal style and standards.
- Hands-on onboarding: engineers and lawyers work directly with firms to co-build workflows.
- SOC 2 compliant, end-to-end encryption, with EU/US data residency options.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue global expansion (already in 5 countries, targeting more).
- Deepen product capabilities for practice areas like litigation, corporate/M&A, and regulatory/ESG.
- Scale the go-to-market team (hiring Founding Account Executive, Growth Marketing Manager, Community & Partnerships Lead).
- Maintain an in-office culture in New York to foster collaboration.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-growing startup where ideas have real impact; team includes alumni from Blackstone, Amazon, DoorDash, Columbia University, and law firms like White & Case and Wachtell, Lipton.
- **Work Policy**: In-office (New York City) – all current openings are onsite.
- **Notable Perks**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge legal AI; close collaboration with lawyers and engineers; direct influence on product and company trajectory.
- **Engineering Culture**: Emphasis on forward-deployed engineering, AI deployment strategy, and hands-on customization for clients.

## Sources
1. [august.law](https://www.august.law/)
2. [august.law/careers](https://www.august.law/us/careers)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/august-law)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/augustlegal)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/august)

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