Building DraftWise: Crafting a World-Class Legal Tech Team

‍Last month, the DraftWise team gathered in Mexico City to celebrate the year's successes and align on our 2025 companywide roadmap and goals. Now, we’re sharing our team’s reflections on how we’ve built a remote work culture around collaboration and commitment to innovation, positioning us to transform legal.

2024 has been a year of significant milestones for DraftWise. As we reflect on the last twelve months—marked by a Series A funding round, new strategic partnerships, and a growing, globally distributed team—we're taking a moment to recognize the incredible progress we've made and what it means for the future of the DraftWise team.

Building a Foundation of Innovation and Trust

Building a platform that balances innovation with security, accuracy, and reliability requires clarity of vision. Every function within DraftWise—engineering, product, GTM—plays a vital role in ensuring our platform addresses discrete problems in legal work. But ultimately, in the fast-moving, ever-changing industry of legal AI, it's our people who make the difference between a simply functional and a transformative platform.

At DraftWise, success is defined by more than just the end product—it’s about fostering a culture of expertise that allows us to solve today’s legal challenges while anticipating tomorrow’s. Staying ahead means creating an environment of collaboration where the brightest minds in legal and technology come together to push boundaries and deliver value that scales with technological innovation.

“As a company, we’re at a point where nostalgia is no longer useful. We’re moving at lightning speed to scale DraftWise into what we all know it can be, and forward momentum is critical to actualizing this success.” Sarah Schultz, Head of Communications  

We pride ourselves on being more than a legal tech provider—we’re a trusted partner for firms and legal professionals looking to empower their lawyers with smarter, more efficient tools. This trust stems from how our team works: highly collaborative, deeply knowledgeable, and always focused on solving discrete problems.

“During our offsite, it was exciting to watch members of this great team we're building come together, regardless of title, tenure, and background, all strategizing on how we can create and realize more value for our users.” - James Ding, DraftWise co-founder & CEO

Fostering a Culture of Learning and Growth

Education and continuous learning are at the heart of our team’s culture. In an industry where technology is rapidly transforming, we recognize we're still in the early stages of artificial intelligence application—and there's always more to learn. We've created an environment that encourages ongoing learning and experimentation, even when it comes to mistakes.

Our team's strength lies in its diversity of expertise and shared sense of purpose. From engineers to product experts to former attorneys, everyone at DraftWise contributes to our collective mission. We prioritize transparency and relentless curiosity, creating a workplace where every team member understands not just their role, but also the broader impact of their work.

“I was equally impressed hearing engineers talk about legal workflows as I was hearing GTM folks talk about technical aspects of data privacy. This really illustrated how deeply focused we've been on our customers, and that the team we have is truly capable of solving lawyers' pain points and enhancing work on legal documents.” Scott Ball, Legal Product Expert

Empathy Driven Product Development

While the broader legal tech industry still grapples with effectively applying generative AI and machine learning to lawyers' workflows, DraftWise has found success through our user-centric approach.

We ensure the impact of our platform by leading with empathy – every product decision we make is grounded in a deep understanding of our users. By putting lawyers’ needs at the center of our innovation process, we’ve created a platform that not only works but excels—earning the trust of the world’s top law firms.

“DraftWise is effective because it meets lawyers where they work (Microsoft Word add-in)” Kelsea, Customer Success Manager

By deeply understanding the realities of lawyers’ day-to-day work, we’ve built a product that combines efficiency, accuracy, and seamless integration. This approach has not only earned the trust of our users but has also created a unique environment where team members learn and grow through collaboration, curiosity, and a shared commitment to solving meaningful problems.

Pioneering the Future of Legal Work

DraftWise fosters an environment of growth, learning, and continuous improvement. Through this shared mindset, we’ve built a platform that elevates the legal work while constantly challenging ourselves to innovate and evolve.

“We aim to provide tools that don’t just adapt to the legal industry—they move it forward. We’re building solutions that anticipate needs and set a new standard for legal AI.” Jesse, Engagement Lead

As we head into 2025, we remain committed to transforming how lawyers work by delivering tools that are intuitive, reliable, and grounded in empathy. DraftWise is proud to partner with the world’s best firms to help lawyers draft with confidence, clarity, and precision—because the best tools should feel like second nature.

“Taking time to celebrate what we’ve accomplished is important, but the best is yet to come. In 2025, we’ll be ruthlessly focused on delivering unmatched value to transactional lawyers across the globe.” Sarah Schultz, Head of Communications

Join the Team: DraftWise Careers

If you're excited about building technology that meaningfully transforms how lawyers work and want to join a remote team that values deep expertise, continuous learning, and genuine collaboration, check out our open roles and remote jobs. We're always looking for passionate people who share our vision of making legal work more intuitive and impactful!

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