VP of AI (Remote in Arizona)
About the position Responsibilities • Develop and execute Rocket Lawyer's AI strategy, including LLM fine-tuning, prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, and scalable AI deployment, with a focus on Rocket Copilot. • Own the roadmap for AI-driven capabilities, ensuring alignment with business objectives and user needs. • Lead the design and implementation or usage of AI/ML models, particularly LLMs, NLP applications, and generative AI for legal tech solutions. • Drive innovation in AI-driven legal assistance, contract analysis, and intelligent conversational document generation and processing. • Build and lead a high-performing AI team, fostering a culture of innovation, ownership, and technical excellence. • Collaborate with engineering leadership to integrate AI models into production systems at scale. • Ensure AI models are ethical, explainable, unbiased, and aligned with privacy and security standards. • Evaluate and implement AI infrastructure, MLOps best practices, and cloud-based AI deployments. • Stay ahead of AI trends, academic research, and emerging LLM techniques to maintain a competitive edge. • Work cross-functionally with legal, product, and customer teams to deliver user-friendly AI-powered solutions. Requirements • 10+ years of experience in AI, machine learning, and data science, with at least 5+ years in a leadership role. • Proven experience leading LLM-driven projects, including fine-tuning, RAG, and prompt engineering. • Deep expertise in NLP, deep learning, and AI model deployment at scale. • Hands-on experience with LLMs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, Mistral, Llama), vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, Pgvector), and MLOps frameworks. • Strong knowledge of Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, LangChain, and AI/ML cloud services. • Experience deploying AI models in production-grade applications with security, reliability, and scalability. • Understanding of data pipelines, data engineering, and feature engineering for ML. • Experience with at least one of the clouds (GCP, AWS or Azure). • Exceptional leadership, strategic thinking, and ability to drive AI adoption across an organization. • Strong communication skills to translate complex AI concepts into business value. Nice-to-haves • Experience working in legal tech, fintech, or heavily regulated industries. • Understanding of legal NLP applications, contract automation, and AI-driven compliance solutions. • Experience with AI safety, AI governance, and responsible AI practices. • Track record of publishing AI research, patents, or contributions to open-source AI projects. Benefits • Comprehensive health plans (including Medical, Dental and Vision insurance for full-time employees) • Unlimited PTO • Competitive salary packages • Life insurance • Disability benefits • Supplemental Optional Life Insurance Benefits • FSA Options Optional • HSA with Company Match • 401k program with Company Match • Fertility Assistance and Planning options • Wellhub & ClassPass fitness platforms • Comprehensive Pet Insurance options • Financial Wellbeing & Student Loan Program access • Access to additional Mental Health & Wellbeing resources • Pre-tax Commuter/Transit Benefits • Free Rocket Lawyer account with online access to an extensive legal documents library and brilliant licensed attorneys at discounted rates Apply tot his job