Principal – Document Standards & Quality

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. Own the Document Quality System enabling AI and engineering teams to produce professional, usable documents .

Posted 10/13/2026full-timeUnited StatesLead💰 $95,300 - $158,800 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates deep expertise in professional document production, including legal and technical document standards, with a strong focus on quality assessment and improvement. Capable of defining and implementing document formatting standards and taxonomies while collaborating with engineering teams to enhance document quality through automation and measurable metrics.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Document Quality System OwnershipExpert Command of Word-Style StructureDocument Automation ExperienceStrong Typographic and Information-Design JudgmentFamiliarity with Legal Document Conventions

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Hard Skills

Document ProductionFormatting Standards DefinitionDocument Taxonomy DevelopmentFailure Taxonomy ClassificationTestable Specifications WritingDocument Quality Score DevelopmentDocument AutomationProgrammatic Document GenerationOOXMLPDF

Soft Skills

Sound JudgmentAbility to Explain Issues Clearly

Industry Keywords

Legal Document ProductionPublishingTechnical DesignKnowledge ManagementLegal OperationsLegal Technology

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the Document Quality System enabling AI and engineering teams to produce professional, usable documents
Define canonical standards for typography, hierarchy, whitespace, tables, lists, headings, citations, pagination, headers and footers, exhibits, and numbering
Define a document taxonomy and distinct formatting grammar for document families such as legal briefs, contracts, client memos, and research reports
Review several hundred generated documents and build a failure taxonomy
Classify formatting defects by type, severity, and root cause, and report patterns
Produce human-crafted reference documents for each document type and version them as test fixtures
Write explicit, testable specifications for document behavior and structure
Develop a Document Quality Score covering structural integrity, visual hierarchy, consistency, readability, template compliance, and editability
Work with engineering to make quality measurable, automatable where possible, and calibrated against human expert judgment
Adjudicate disputes, review new templates, and represent document quality in product and model-evaluation decisions

Requirements

What you’ll need

Deep expertise in professional document production, such as legal document production, publishing, technical or editorial design, knowledge management, or a similar field, with a track record of setting standards rather than just following them
Expert command of Word-style structure, including style-linked numbering, multilevel lists, sections, headers and footers, tables of contents and authorities, cross-references, and tracked changes
Strong typographic and information-design judgment
Ability to explain why something is wrong, not just that it is
Sound judgment across professional domains, including familiarity with legal and financial document conventions
Experience in a large law firm, legal operations, or legal technology
Experience with document automation, template systems, or design systems
Familiarity with programmatic document generation, including OOXML and PDF, and enough technical fluency to review output at the file level
Prior work evaluating or improving AI-generated content

Benefits

Comp & perks

Annual incentive bonus
Wellbeing initiatives
Shared parental leave
Study assistance
Sabbaticals
Flexible working hours
Country-specific benefits
Reasonable accommodations during the hiring process