Overview
Commercial Lawyer Jobs in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa at Sirion
Title: Commercial Lawyer
Company: Sirion
Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Analyst – Legal Engineering (AI Contract Review | Prompt Engineering | AI Quality)
About Sirion
Sirion is the world’s leading AI–native Contract Lifecyle Management (CLM) platform, transforming the end-to-end contracting journey for enterprises. With Agentic AI at the core, the platform’s extraction, conversational search, and AI-enhanced negotiation capabilities have revolutionized contracting across Fortune 500 companies like IBM, Coca Cola, Citi and GE. With more than 800 employees across the globe, Sirion comprises a team of AI engineers, legal experts and researchers who are working relentlessly to build reliable and trustworthy CLM for businesses of tomorrow. Recognized by Gartner, IDC, and Spend Matters as a consistent CLM leader, Sirion sets the innovation benchmark for the category.
For more information, visit www.sirion.ai.
Power the Future of AI & Why This Role Matters
Legal Engineering sits within Product and works at the intersection of commercial contracting, AI, and software delivery and is responsible for translating legal expertise into scalable, product-ready assets and ensuring our AI features are accurate, reliable, and usable for real-world contracting.
Role Title: Analyst – Legal Engineering (Product)
Team: Legal Engineering, (Product)
Location: Cape Town (Hybrid – 3 days p/w)
About the Role:
We are seeking a highly motivated, Cape Town based attorney to join our legal engineering team. The ideal candidate will possess at least 5 years PQE, possessing a deep understanding of contracting and transaction negotiation. Experience with handling IT, outsourcing or services contracts and Legal Tech or AI is highly desirable. In this role, you will help build and scale Sirion’s GenAI SKUs within our industry leading CLM platform. You will be responsible for validating and improving AI inputs and outputs, strengthening prompting strategies, and helping create the structure (SOPs, playbooks, evaluation assets) that enables high-quality delivery at scale. You will thrive if you’re meticulous, curious, comfortable with uncertainty, and energized by working in a flexible, fast-paced environment while collaborating with global stakeholders.
How You’ll Make an Impact
AI Contract Review & Quality
- Validate and continuously improve GenAI SKUs performance by testing, verifying, and refining AI inputs/outputs for accuracy, consistency, and usability across contract types and scenarios.
- Review contracts and build scalable legal assets: playbooks, clause guidance, red-flag standards, escalation matrices, and QA checklists. Contribute to (and help standardize) remediation and high-volume review workflows where applicable.
Legal, Product & Engineering Collaboration
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and Machine Learning teams to integrate legal requirements into feature workflows and translate legal nuance into clear, implementable product guidance.
- Work effectively in a global team: communicate clearly, collaborate openly, and contribute to shared standards and ways of working across regions and time zones.
Prompt Engineering & AI Enablement
- Drive improvement in operations, design, iterate, test, and document strong prompt strategies for AI contract review use cases such as issue detection, clause classification, metadata extraction, obligation identification, and risk assessment.
- Demonstrate a structured approach to prompt engineering and iterative testing, with a focus on improving AI performance over time.
Feedback, Testing & Continuous Improvement
- Gather, analyze, and synthesize feedback from users and internal stakeholders to continuously improve feature quality and customer trust.
- Maintain a structured approach to defect triage, edge-case capture, and improvement prioritization.
Process & Operational Excellence
- Help build structure from the ground up: draft and maintain SOPs, testing protocols, evaluation rubrics, and reusable templates/assets that enable repeatable, high-quality feedback and actionable insights.
- Contribute to scalable ways of working and help establish processes that support high-quality delivery at scale.
Skills & Experience You Bring to the Table
- Legal Education – Mandatory: Bachelor of Laws (LLB) or equivalent law degree from an accredited institution.
- South African Legal Experience – Mandatory: Admitted attorney in South Africa with a minimum of 5 years post-qualification professional legal experience at a reputable law firm, alternative legal service provider and/or company. Experience working with high-volume support teams, such as Managed Legal Services, remediation/repapering projects, or large-scale contract review engagements is preferred.
- Contracting & Transaction Expertise: Strong background in contracting, with a focus on reviewing and negotiating complex transactions across various domains.
- IT, Outsourcing & Services Contracts: Experience in handling IT, outsourcing or services contracts is advantageous.
- Analytical & Problem-Solving Skills: Excellent analytical, problem-solving, interpersonal, organizational and communication skills. High attention to detail and a resilient mindset are two aspects which are essential for this role.
- Workstream & Priority Management: Ability to work independently, prioritize effectively and manage multiple workstreams under tight deadlines, while remaining collaborative and transparent.
- Prompt Engineering & AI Testing: Demonstrated ability (or strong aptitude) for prompt engineering and iterative testing: comfortable experimenting, measuring outcomes, documenting learnings, and improving performance over time. Data interpretation and pattern literacy is highly advantageous.
- Legal Tech & AI Awareness: Curious and up-to-date on legal tech developments, with awareness of the AI-in-CLM and contract review landscape.
- Adaptability & Process Building: Comfort with uncertainty and change; willingness to help build processes, structure, and scalable ways of working.
- Stakeholder Management & Learning Agility: Energetic, quick learner with strong stakeholder management skills.
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We are an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We do not discriminate based on race, color, gender, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic. We provide reasonable accommodations for disabled employees and applicants as required by law. These principles apply to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, training, promotions, compensation, benefits, transfers, and social programs.
