As the first Program Manager, Academy at GC AI, you will define the vision and strategy for educational programs, integrating key classes with business goals to drive adoption and pipeline.
GC AI is the fastest-growing and most trusted legal AI platform for in-house legal teams. We're building the future of legal work, and we're doing it fast. You'll join at a pivotal moment—when decisions matter, impact is immediate, and the runway to shape your career is wide open. We’re a high-performing team where you'll have real ownership and influence from day one.
More than 1,500 companies use GC AI to drive their business forward, including 150+ public companies, 25+ unicorns, and brands such as News Corp, Miro, Bass Pro Shops, Snyk, Skims, Liquid Death, Vercel, Zscaler, and TIME.
We've 10x'd revenue in 12 months, raised a $60 million Series B ($555 million valuation), and are growing faster than ever. We are backed by incredible investors, including Scale Venture Partners, Northzone, Sound Ventures, and Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel.
If you thrive when the stakes are high and the path isn't paved, you'll love it here. Our six guiding principles are: 1% better every day, customer obsession, ship today, find a way, care deeply, and own it completely. Come shape the future of legal work with us.
About The RoleWe're building the operating system for in-house legal. As the first Program Manager, Academy at GC AI, you will define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for GC AI's award-winning educational program and growth engine, the GC AI Academy.
You will shape the educational roadmap, integrating our industry-leading classes with our broader business and growth goals, and identify how our classes and engagement with attorneys drive measurable business outcomes across adoption, pipeline, and retention. You will work directly with a cross-functional team of solutions attorneys, legal operations professionals, and data analysts to build and scale a multidisciplinary educational program that teaches lawyers how to leverage AI and drives measurable impact on GC AI's growth.
We've raised $60M at a $555M valuation because we've built something legal teams love to use (70+ NPS, which is unheard of in legal software). Now we need a Program Manager who can help us extend that lead by turning our educational classes into a cohesive business strategy that drives adoption and pipeline.
As the first Program Manager, Academy, you will set the foundation for educational programming at a hyper-growth Series B Startup.
- Own the full lifecycle of the Academy program, shape the strategy, refine the roadmap for legal AI education, prioritize based on user data and business impact, and iterate based on what you learn.
- Integrate class content into the larger GC AI business strategy, ensuring educational initiatives drive product adoption and support the conversion funnel.
- Serve as the connective tissue between cross-functional partners in Marketing, Growth, R&D, and RevOps, aligning stakeholders and resources around the Academy mission.
- Conduct ongoing discovery through user feedback, engagement analytics, and competitor analysis, and synthesize insights into a prioritized program backlog.
- Partner with solutions attorneys and legal ops professionals who create the content and manage logistics to ensure high-quality class delivery.
- Direct content strategy, determining which topics, formats, and delivery methods will have the highest impact on user activation, retention, and community growth.
- Define and track Academy success metrics, including user engagement, course completion rates, adoption, NPS, and revenue attribution. Partner with data-focused analysts to run experiments and turn insights into program decisions.
- Develop an evaluation framework to track class performance and instructor efficacy.
- 5-10 years of experience in program management, educational operations, or business strategy, with a track record of leading cross-functional initiatives tied to business outcomes..
- Experience managing complex programs aligned with business metrics and growth funnels, without relying on direct engineering resources.
- Familiarity with B2B / enterprise environments, including how programmatic initiatives affect sales cycles, retention, and expansion.
- Ability to hold both big-picture strategy and ground-level execution.
- Familiarity with AI and legal technology
- Comfort with ambiguity and incomplete information
- Willingness to do whatever the team needs to make the program succeed
- Juris Doctor (JD) degree or equivalent advanced legal education preferred.
- Early employee at a hyper-growth startup
- Prior experience building 0→1 educational or growth programs
- Experience at world-class enterprise companies (e.g., Ramp, Stripe, Palantir)
We’re building something new in a once-in-a-generation shift in technology and the legal industry, so we move at a relentless pace. We expect urgency, ownership, and good judgment even when things aren’t perfectly clear. If you need structure and consensus to do your best work, this isn’t the right place for you. If you thrive in ambiguity and growth, work with intensity, and want real responsibility, keep reading. We’re excited to meet you.
Compensation
GC AI's compensation package includes a competitive base salary benchmarked against real-time market data, as well as equity for all full-time roles. We also offer exceptional benefits, as well as commission plans for applicable roles. Our US-based compensation range for this role is $170,000 – $250,000. Actual pay is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, location, market demand, and other factors.
These compensation bands are just the starting point. After someone joins and proves they’re and exceptional performer, we adjust quickly to ensure their compensation aligns with their impact.
Equal Opportunity Employment
GC AI is an equal opportunity employer that supports workplace diversity and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity/expression, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, physical or mental disability, or any other protected class. GC AI is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. #LI-GCAI
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