Senior Legal Specialist, Data Analyst/AI Specialist - Commercial Law Group

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation seeks a Senior Legal Specialist to advance data analytics and AI enabled operations within the Commercial Law Group. This onsite role is based in Lake Mary, Florida.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with attorneys to design, build, and manage BNY Legal's bespoke AI capabilities to streamline legal operations, including creating an Agentic AI workflow to support contracting and negotiations.
• Contribute to firmwide AI governance, encompassing intake triage, issue tracking, workflow coordination, and maintaining governance documentation.
• Conduct data analytics and generate reports to support transactional work, including extracting, analyzing, and presenting contract insights and trends; partner with attorneys and business clients to maintain and enhance datasets, dashboards, and risk management reporting.
• Administer, optimize, and promote adoption of legal technology platforms, including CLM systems, contract repositories, analytics tools, and custom AI solutions.
• Engage with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, including business teams, sourcing, and external counsel, to support contracting processes, vendor management, data quality, and related governance initiatives.

Requirements

• Background as a paralegal, analyst, or legal operations professional, ideally within a corporate or financial services setting.
• Strong data analytics capabilities, with experience handling structured and unstructured data, spreadsheets, reporting tools, dashboards, or legal analytics platforms.
• Demonstrated experience or strong interest in AI, automation, and legal innovation.
• High comfort level working with technology platforms and digital workflows.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills, with meticulous attention to detail and a proactive mindset.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Effective communicator and collaborator.
• Experience supporting contracting, negotiations, or third-party governance is beneficial.

Technologies

Experience with Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) systems, contract repositories, and analytics tools.

Legal Department Awards

• FT Innovative Lawyers North America 2024 – Winner: Innovation in Operational Transformation (adoption of generative AI)
• Legalweek 2025 | ALM Law.com – Most Innovative Legal Department of the Year
• 2025 Pennsylvania Legal Awards – Winner: In-House Impact Award

Firmwide Recognition

• America’s Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2024
• World’s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2024
• Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Corporate Equality Index, 100% score, 2023-2024
• Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion, Disability: IN – 100% score, 2023-2024
• “Most Just Companies,” Just Capital and CNBC, 2024
• Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, Top performing company for Sustainability, 2024
• Bloomberg’s Gender Equality Index (GEI), 2023