Posted:
7/15/2026, 8:46:58 PM
Location(s):
Greater London, England, United Kingdom ⋅ England, United Kingdom
Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior
Field(s):
Legal & Compliance
Workplace Type:
On-site
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Legal Technologist
Expedia’s Legal and Corporate Affairs team (ELCA) is a trusted partner to every corner of the business, advising on complex commercial transactions, regulatory compliance, intellectual property, privacy, and litigation across a global portfolio of iconic travel brands.
Our department is moving deliberately and quickly to embed AI into how work gets done. Our aim is not AI for its own sake; it is to free our lawyers, paralegals and government affairs specialists from routine work so they can focus on the judgment and expertise only they can provide. Our Legal Operations and Technology team owns the systems, processes, and technology that make ELCA run, including the strategy, program oversight, and governance behind AI adoption.
This newly created senior role gives ELCA a dedicated engineering and technical-delivery capability it has not had before. It sits alongside, and expands, the work of the Director, Legal Operations, who owns ELCA's operational backbone. The two roles are peers and report to the VP, Legal Operations & Technology.
Reporting to the VP and partnering closely with the Director, Legal Operations, you turn the department's highest-value AI and technology ambitions into working, governed, reusable solutions that ELCA's legal and government affairs teams rely on every day. You will be hands-on — prototyping, engineering, and deploying — while setting the technical craft and quality bar for how ELCA builds. Just as important, you act as the translation layer between ELCA team members and complex technology: drawing out what attorneys, paralegals, and government affairs specialists really need, and turning it into tools they can trust and use.
You will also partner with adjacent teams such as IT and Technology to ensure ELCA leverages Enterprise engineering support and build solutions that are appropriately integrated and aligned with EG-wide systems and processes.
If you are energized by building real tools for real users and excited to help shape a first-of-its-kind technical function, one that will grow and take shape over time, this role is for you.
In this role, you will :
We expect the role to begin with the following broad areas of ownership. How these are approached, and where the emphasis sits over time, will be shaped together with you.
Hands-on technical delivery: Design, build, and deploy the department’s more ambitious AI and automation solutions (the workflows, agents, and integrations that require real engineering rather than configuration), taking them from idea to something the department uses in practice.
A durable technical foundation: Establish the shared patterns, reusable components, and quality bar necessary to build solutions that are maintainable, secure, and reusable across teams rather than one-off and siloed.
Responsible AI, jointly owned: Partner with the Director, Legal Operations and the Legal Leadership team on the standards that keep the department’s AI use safe and consistent, leading the technical and security dimensions while Legal Operations leads adoption, policy, and rollout, all aligned to EG’s responsible-AI principles and privacy obligations.
Expanding what's possible: Give the department engineering reach it hasn’t had before, so its AI and technology ambitions are no longer limited by off-the-shelf or low-code tools, and help the VP shape how technical capability should grow over time.
Evaluation & judgment: Working with Legal Operations, assess emerging legal-AI technologies through hands-on testing and proofs of concept, and bring sound buy-vs-build judgment to decisions together with Legal Operations.
Partnership & enablement: Work as a peer with the Director, Legal Operations and across Information Security, Privacy, Product, IT and Technology; make what you build genuinely usable, complementing rather than duplicating the department’s broader adoption and change program.
Experience and qualifications :
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Law, or related discipline), or equivalent professional experience.
Typically 6+ years of combined experience across legal technology, legal operations, automation/AI workflow engineering, or product management — including demonstrable production delivery of AI or automation solutions in a legal, compliance, or regulated context.
Direct experience in a legal or compliance operational function is strongly preferred.
Proven hands-on delivery: A track record of building and running AI-enabled and automation workflows in production (not prototypes that never ship) within a legal, compliance, risk, or similarly regulated environment.
Translation layer: A genuine ability to sit between legal staff and complex AI and technology, turning what attorneys, paralegals, and government affairs specialists actually need into technical requirements, and making sophisticated tools understandable and usable for non-technical colleagues. Translation runs both ways: you can also teach, raising legal staff’s technical fluency so they understand how these tools work and can get more out of them. This bridging and teaching skill is central to the role.
Technical depth: Working proficiency in Python and scripting; comfort with APIs and integration patterns; hands-on experience with low-code/no-code automation platforms (e.g., n8n or similar) and with GenAI approaches including LLMs, RAG, agents, and protocols such as MCP.
Legal-tech fluency: Ideally, some familiarity with the legal technology stack (CLM, e-billing, matter management, document automation, and legal AI tools such as GCAI or comparable), plus a genuine understanding of legal terminology, contract structures, and how legal teams actually work.
Product & ownership instinct: Experience owning tools as products: gathering requirements from non-technical users, designing for reuse over one-offs, and managing systems through their full lifecycle. Sound judgment on when a solution is over-engineered or creates a poor user experience.
Leadership presence: The credibility and communication skills to operate at a senior level: partnering as a peer with the Director, Legal Operations, influencing attorneys, paralegals, government affairs specialists, and department leadership, and setting the technical bar others build to.
Responsible-AI mindset: A first-principles grasp of what AI can and cannot do, and where explainability, audit logging, data protection, and human review must sit.
Change management: A feel for the human side of AI adoption: building trust in new tools, meeting genuine skepticism with candor rather than hype, and helping legal staff change how they work. You partner with Legal Operations’ broader adoption program rather than duplicating it, focusing on the behavior change that lands the solutions you build.
Self-direction: Curious, resourceful, and able to run multiple workstreams autonomously in a fast-moving environment.
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About Expedia Group
Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.
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