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Paralegal / Legal Engineer

Dust
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
On-site · London, United Kingdom
Experience
3 years

Job description

An early-career legal role at Dust combining legal engineering and process improvement with hands-on commercial legal work under lawyer supervision. The role may lead to consideration for an England & Wales training contract, subject to performance, business needs, eligibility and formal approval.

At a glance

Employment
Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
Work mode
On-site · London, United Kingdom
Languages
English – fluent, French

What you'll do

  • Identify recurring legal bottlenecks and design better ways for the company to get legal support.
  • Translate legal rules and approved playbooks into practical workflows, templates, structured guidance and automations.
  • Build and improve legal workflows using Dust and other appropriate tools, including intake, contract review and approval processes.
  • Test workflows, gather feedback, document how they work and iterate to improve their quality and adoption.
  • Build appropriate controls into processes, including lawyer review points, escalation paths and safeguards for confidential information.
  • Draft, review and prepare redlines for a wide range of commercial agreements, including NDAs, SaaS agreements, MSAs, order forms, DPAs, vendor contracts and partnership agreements.
  • Support negotiation and deal execution with Sales, GTM and other teams, including participating in discussions when appropriate and under lawyer supervision.
  • Help identify legal, privacy, data protection, security and AI-related issues in commercial matters, and bring them to the right lawyer for review.
  • Conduct legal research, prepare issue summaries and help develop practical options for resolving contract questions.
  • Progressively take on more responsibility as experience and judgment develop, while escalating non-standard or higher-risk issues to qualified counsel.
  • Help create and improve templates, playbooks, legal knowledge resources and tools that allow the wider company to handle routine work more consistently.
  • Use and improve systems that make matter status, contract obligations and key deadlines visible, rather than relying on manual follow-up.
  • Work with the General Counsel, Commercial Counsel and external counsel across a varied commercial workload.

What we're looking for

  • Legal training, such as a law degree, paralegal qualification or equivalent experience.
  • Clear legal writing, research and issue-spotting skills, with an interest in commercial law.
  • Interest or experience in process design, automation, no-code or low-code tools, AI workflows or contract-management systems.
  • Business-standard English is required.
  • Willingness to travel to the US or Paris from time to time when required.
  • Curious and motivated to develop as a commercial legal professional.
  • Organised, careful and discreet when handling confidential information.
  • A clear communicator who is comfortable asking questions, surfacing uncertainty and taking feedback.
  • Collaborative and pragmatic, with a genuine interest in helping colleagues move work forward.
  • Proactively identifies opportunities to improve how legal work is done, then helps design and build the solution.
  • Takes ownership of process improvements from problem definition through implementation, testing and iteration.
  • Gets directly involved in commercial legal matters and follows them through within the level of responsibility agreed with supervising lawyers.
  • Uses judgment to move work forward while escalating decisions that require qualified legal review.

Nice to have

  • Some experience in a paralegal, legal assistant, commercial contracts or legal operations role is helpful.
  • Business-standard French is a strong advantage, but not essential.

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About Dust

Work is being rewritten, and the people holding the pen are the ones who actually run it.

Dust provides enterprise-grade governance, flexible model choice, and a collaborative interface for humans and agents to work together.

Mission

Empower AI Operators at the world's fastest-moving companies to rewire how work gets done.

Key facts

  • Enterprise AI
  • 70%+ weekly active users
  • Aim to x5 growth by the end of 2026
  • Backed by Sequoia
  • Named among the Future 50 by The Generalist
  • Team comes from Stripe, OpenAI, and Stanford
  • Offices in Paris, London, San Francisco, and New York

Partners & customers

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What they value

  • Focus on users
  • Ship fast
  • Don't take themselves too seriously