Director of Artificial Intelligence

Founded in 1920, Akerman is recognized as one of the nation’s premier law firms, with more than 700 lawyers across the United States. 

Akerman LLP, an AmLaw 100 firm, is seeking a hands-on Director of Artificial Intelligence to lead the design, development, and responsible deployment of AI systems across the firm. This is not a purely strategic or advisory position—we are looking for a builder. The successful candidate will have personally architected and shipped production AI applications, including agentic systems, can read and write code, and understands the practical realities of running AI on confidential, privileged data in a regulated professional-services environment.

The Director will own the process of scoping designing agentic workflows and tools that retrieve, reason over, and act on information across heterogeneous sources, selecting and tuning the right models for each task, and doing so under rigorous security and compliance controls. This person will ...