Strategic Projects Lead (Legal)
This role is for a junior attorney who’s eager to be at the cutting edge of the next era of legal hiring. You’ve seen how broken the system can be — vague roles, slow decisions, too much wasted motion — and you want to fix it. You don’t want to box yourself into “just practicing.” You want to apply your legal background to build something bigger, move fast, and have outsized impact.
We’re looking for an entrepreneurial Founding Strategic Projects Lead (Legal) to own Paraform’s most complex and highest-impact customer engagements in Legal — and to sit at the center of how the marketplace scales.
Paraform’s customer base is growing rapidly, and Strategic Project Leads (SPLs) are Paraform’s essential operators: connecting the work of sales, supply, product, engineering, and operations to deliver customer outcomes and drive revenue. In this seat, you’ll partner closely with founders, executives, and senior talent leaders to solve their most critical business problem: building world-class teams, fast.
This role is specifically focused on our Legal recruiting vertical. We launched Legal three months ago and already work with many of the Am Law 100 plus top boutiques across the U.S. You’ll work tightly with Paraform’s executive leadership team to scale Legal from $1M to $10M+ and establish Paraform as the go-to solution for legal hiring.
Think of this role as building the best legal hiring engine, ever: a modern, systems-driven operator seat where you bring legal judgment to high-stakes hiring, run senior stakeholders, and ruthlessly eliminate friction. You’ll drive speed, quality, and trust by tightening role definition, pushing decision velocity, and building repeatable playbooks that make hires predictable.
Every engagement is different, but the bar is always the same: speed, quality, and trust. You’ll be the operator who ensures law firm partners and senior legal leaders get a differentiated experience — and that our marketplace mobilizes effectively against their highest-priority roles.
We’re looking for someone who can operate comfortably in multiple modes:
As a trusted advisor: crisp judgment, structure, and informed pushback with senior decision-makers
As a hands-on operator: running the day-to-day execution across roles, feedback loops, and candidate flow
As a builder: creating playbooks, templates, and systems that scale Legal — and become the blueprint for future verticals
If you’re the kind of lawyer who loves high standards, crisp writing, direct feedback, and moving at breakneck speed — and you’ve always wanted to apply your legal training in a way that creates real leverage — you’ll thrive here.
About Paraform:
Paraform is a marketplace modernizing one of the largest and most fragmented markets in the world: hiring. We partner with industry leaders like Cursor, Palantir, Windsurf, Decagon, Shopify, Coinbase, and Hightouch to hire world-class talent, and are growing quickly - 8×-ing revenue last year.
Paraform is the first end-to-end AI recruiting marketplace that connects companies with thousands of specialized recruiters and AI agents that work together to fill roles faster and more accurately.
Our mission is to make hiring fast, reliable, and scalable for every company in the world.
At Paraform, we believe recruiting works best when the right people are working on the right problems, combining human judgment with AI that truly understands hiring. That’s why we’re building a new foundation for how companies hire, bringing together specialized recruiters and modern AI tools.
We treat recruiters like entrepreneurs, not vendors – and we’re building the financial, operational, and technical infrastructure that powers their success.
We are backed by the best investors and technology leaders: Felicis, A*, BOND, Liquid 2, DST Global, the founders of YouTube, Instacart, Canva, and more.