Agentic Workflow Specialist
King & Spalding is a leading global law firm with a commitment to excellence, innovation, and the seamless delivery of legal services. We harness innovative technology and exceptional talent to meet the complex needs of our clients in a fast-paced and dynamic legal landscape.King & Spalding is seeking an Agentic Workflow Specialist to design, prototype, and scale governed, multi-step AI-enabled workflows. You will turn high-value business processes into repeatable “workflow products” with clear inputs/outputs, strong quality controls, and an operating model that supports safe adoption in a highly confidential environment. This role complements existing AI and platform product specialists by owning workflow orchestration patterns, technical standards, testing/validation gates, and end-to-end lifecycle management. Unlike chat-based assistants that respond to open-ended questions, these workflows are designed as structured processes that are often triggered by an event or a user action. The types of workflows where each step, data boundary, and decision point is intentionally defined. Because the underlying AI platforms and controls evolve quickly, the firm needs a dedicated specialist who can track capability changes, evaluate risk and fit, and translate them into practical guardrails and scalable technical standards. You will partner closely with the firm’s AI program and platform product specialists to align on platform direction, governance needs, and enablement. While this role focuses on engineering-quality workflow delivery, operational rigor, and scaling repeatable patterns across business department teams, there is expected to be collaboration and working cohesion with the teams who are building and supporting the legal and practice teams with their agentic workflow needs. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:Agentic Workflow Architecture & Engineering Translate business processes into workflow maps and implementations that minimize ambiguity and maximize repeatability. Establish reusable workflow patterns for structured input collection, deterministic output formats, and safe failure/exception handling appropriate for firm use. Build and iterate rapid prototypes (proofs of value) and progress them through a controlled pipeline from draft → testing → approval → published → archived. Platform Expertise (Microsoft + Partners) & Technical Evaluation Maintain working knowledge of the firm’s core AI and automation platforms (including Microsoft and key partners), with a focus on workflow orchestration capabilities, administrative controls, and enterprise readiness. Translate platform controls, publishing/review pathways, and audit features into internal standards, runbooks, and “definition of done” criteria for workflows. Partner with product specialists (e.g., Copilot, Harvey, Servic...