Technical Lead, Ironclad
Contract AI
$245-295k
Offers Equity
Enterprise software for managing contracts
Open for applications
Enterprise software for managing contracts
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$245-295k
Offers Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To power the world’s contracts.
Role
Who you are
- Proven Track Record: 5+ years of software experience architecting, building, launching, and maintaining complex systems. We prioritize industry experience and a history of shipping production-grade software
- Engineering Management: 2+ years of technical leadership or management experience, with a demonstrated ability to grow and mentor high-performing teams
- High Agency: You thrive in "zero-to-one" environments and are comfortable navigating the ambiguity of a rapidly evolving AI landscape
- Technical Expertise
- Backend & Distributed Systems: Extensive experience designing the high-performance infrastructure required to power complex, real-world AI workflows
- AI/ML Fluency: Hands-on experience with LLM orchestration, RAG, and establishing rigorous AI quality frameworks (evals, benchmarking, and error analysis)
- Modern Stack Awareness: While experience with our specific stack is not required, we work with TypeScript, React, Node.js, and Docker/Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform
- Product Mindset: A passion for building tools that users love. You care deeply about the "why" behind the code and how it solves mission-critical problems for legal professionals
- Collaborative Builder: Experience working closely with researchers, designers, and product managers to rapidly prototype and iterate on novel features
What the job involves
- Technical Vision: Define and execute a roadmap including intelligent LLM-based agentic systems, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), LLM post-training and domain adaptation
- AI Quality & Backend Excellence: Lead the strategy for AI reliability. You will ensure our models are not just "cool," but production-grade, legally accurate, and scalable
- Team Leadership: Manage and grow a team of talented engineers, fostering a culture that blends ML research excellence with pragmatic, product-focused delivery
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product, Sales, and Marketing to move products like Jurist and Assistant from early adoption to General Availability and massive scale
- MLOps & Infrastructure: Establish robust practices for training, deployment, and continuous monitoring of LLMs in a secure enterprise environment
- Cultural Stewardship: Identify organizational bottlenecks and speak up to fix them. You’ll represent Ironclad’s technical vision to Fortune 500 customers and category-defining startups
- We believe in technical leaders who stay close to the metal
- 80% Building: Shaping the technical roadmap, designing backend architecture, and implementing AI quality frameworks, writing code
- 20% Leading: Mentoring engineers, managing performance
Our take
Business contracting is often inefficient and messy, with approvals required from various stakeholders and many processes still paper-based. Ironclad is a platform that digitises, automates, and streamlines contract workflows, allowing legal teams to focus on legal work rather than paperwork. Its platform features collaborative tools that facilitate business operations and extract and catalogue contract metadata, making information easier to access and act upon. Its enterprise customers include Dropbox, Mastercard, Pixar, Fox, and L’Oréal.
Despite its success, Ironclad faces competition in the $3 billion contract lifecycle management industry from major players like DocuSign and emerging ones like Contractbook. The company recently announced Ironclad Signature, marking its entry into the $25 billion eSignature market. The new feature speeds up the signature process by an estimated 80% and provides summaries and approval histories to users. This new tool is expected to strengthen Ironclad's position in the sell-side contract lifecycle management market.
Additionally, Ironclad introduced value-based pricing, charging only for completed, signed agreements, unlike other providers who charge for every signature packet sent out. Ironclad, backed by investors like Accel, Sequoia, Y Combinator, and BOND, remains committed to innovating and maintaining its leadership in the contract lifecycle management space.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2022
$150m
SERIES E
Dec 2020
$100m
SERIES D
Total funding: $334.3m
Company benefits
- Dental, and vision insurance
- 401K
- Wellness reimbursement
- Flexible vacation policy
- Generous parental leave for both primary and secondary caregivers
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
South Beach, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Cai GoGwilt
(Co-Founder & Chief Architect)Studied HSPS at Cambridge, and Computer Science at MIT. Was a Summer Technology Analayst at Goldman Sachs. Worked as a Research Assistant at MIT. Was a Software Engineer at Palantir.
Jason Boehmig
(Co-Founder & Executive Chairman)Former Corporate Lawyer at Fenwick and Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame before founding Ironclad in 2014.
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