Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer is a world-leading global law firm, where our ambition is to help you achieve your goals.

Exceptional client service and the pursuit of excellence are at our core. We invest in and care about our client relationships, which is why so many are longstanding. We enjoy breaking new ground, as we have for over 170 years.

As a fully integrated transatlantic and transpacific firm, we are where you need us to be. Our footprint is extensive and committed across the world's largest markets, key financial centres and major growth hubs.

At our best tackling complexity and navigating change, we work alongside you on demanding litigation, exacting regulatory work and complex public and private market transactions. We are recognised as leading in these areas.

We are immersed in the sectors and challenges that impact you. We are recognised as standing apart in energy, infrastructure and resources. And we're focused on areas of growth that affect every business across the world.

All of this is achieved by supporting the growth of our people, who help us deliver on our ambition - which is to help you achieve yours.

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer: Your goals. Our ambition

The Opportunity

Overview

Reporting to the Director of AI Acceleration, you will be responsible for day-to-day delivery of the firm's AI strategy in region.

In collaboration with the Director, you will lead and contribute to the delivery and execution of identified strategic initiatives in your region. Where relevant you will work as part of global project teams to bring global alignment while focusing on local delivery.

You will inspire and lead the AI team: owning resourcing decisions, development and performance management of this group.

You will own key stakeholder relationships within region, with an overarching remit to support and motivate each individual to contribute to delivering the firm's AI strategy. This would include, but not be limited to, Senior Practice Managers, select Partners, senior business services representatives.

In doing this you will actively contribute to the team's primary objectives in region, these being to:

• Transform the firm by scaling AI innovation and ensuring strategic governance, positioning the firm as a leader in responsible, cutting-edge legal technology.

• Work with Legal AI capabilities and bringing Legal AI to the broader firm via vendor engagement, pilots, successful rollouts

• Collaborate with cross-functional internal teams (comms, BD, talent) to align on furtherance of AI objectives and points of close strategic collaboration

Key Responsibilities

What You'll Do

You'll activate innovation across HSF Kramer by bringing Legal AI forward. Sourcing and identifying vendors and opportunities and then shaping pilots and deploying cutting edge tech across your region and globally. This role is for shapers, makers, and enthusiasts. This role and opportunity is for someone who is energized by legal innovation and passionate about building and delivering in a way that truly transforms. At our firm we're excited to stay at the cutting edge and even get ahead of it. This role will be a primary driver in support of that effort.

Clients - Innovation, Engagement & External Positioning

• Lead the team to work with Practices and business services teams to embed AI into every layer of legal/client delivery-from review, drafting, and due diligence, to internal operations.

• Contribute to AI partnering and experiments with clients and practice groups.

• Stay ahead of AI trends and tools and thoughtfully engage in industry listening to stay closely attuned to peer developments and market trends.

Internal - Innovation, Engagement & Operations

• Champion AI solutions and integrate AI into workflows across the firm (both business and practice of law). Guide AI use cases and products, from ideation to pilot, deployment, scaling, applying measures like ROI, accuracy, latency.

• Work with members of the AI team to deliver projects that are aligned to the agreed strategy and act as a point of escalation for any issues relating to AI to the AI Director.

• Act as a key point of senior contact for internal stakeholders on the topic of AI enablement, tooling, and capabilities available at the firm - supporting the AI director to manage all key stakeholder relationships in the region.

• Cultivate trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across the firm - within both functional and practice group leadership teams.

• Actively identify potentially difficult dynamics within AI implementation. Work with the AI director and the wider AI team to resolve these.

• Work with other teams, such as L&D, to drive firm-wide AI literacy by co-designing training, playbooks, "AI academies," and adoption campaigns, supported by L&D

• Collaborate closely with other support functions including finance, IT, BD, comms to progress the AI strategy.

Team Leadership & Collaboration

• Build and mentor a cross-functional AI team, providing team members with direction, clarity, guidance, and support.

• Foster a positive culture with the AI team, encouraging open communication, collaboration, and a growth mindset.

• Cultivate collaboration across IT, L&D, Responsible AI and Practice Groups to embed AI and resolve conflicts effectively

Closing date for applications is Friday 06 March 2026 at 12pm

Team

Digital Legal DeliveryFull time

Location

London

Contract type

Permanent Contract

Diversity & Inclusion

We are committed to attracting people from all backgrounds and creating a respectful and inclusive culture where everyone thrives. We see this as essential to our success, including our ability to innovate and achieve sustained high performance. This is a key part of our Values-Human, Bold, and Outstanding.