Her Story
About Alessandra
I currently work as a legal data specialist in AI products for Filevine, where I've been for about 5 months after spending about 2 years and 4 months at Scale AI as an operations associate with Experimental Pipelines. I've been in artificial intelligence for almost 3 years now. In my role at Filevine, I architect and build tooling for legal research and benchmarks, engineer data extraction and validation pipelines using SQL and Python queries and scripts, evaluate third-party AI vendors for internal integration checking out capabilities, risk, compliance, and whether it's a good fit for our company. I conduct a lot of legal research that helps inform the data standards across various product workflows. I'll soon be in a webinar next week with my boss, who's the Senior Vice President, and a product manager leading the charge of our research suite. I contribute to the Accessibility Guild, where another focus is building out a roadmap for Filevine in terms of full accessibility compliance and what that might look like globally. I also lead our legal interns, who are all in law school right now and quite brilliant - they help us with research and our efforts with white papers and keeping human in the loop as part of our product workflows. I wear a few different hats, but I quite enjoy it and really love what I do. Before Filevine, at Scale AI we were focused mainly on agents and agenic workflows given that it was experimental, and I oversaw daily operations for a cross-functional project team. I pivoted into the legal AI space because I felt like Filevine was the perfect fit. I'm fully remote right now, and I've been embraced so warmly by such a welcoming team.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Alessandra
01What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
I would say lead with confidence and don't second-guess yourself. Ask questions and lead with confidence and curiosity. In artificial intelligence, especially, I think it's a competitive space, and I do believe it leans more towards male-dominated. I think females shaping the voice of AI, especially in legal AI, and disrupting that market is important. Also find community within that space, and that might mean going about things in a different way, like carving out niches here and there. When I signed on with my current position, I wasn't really sure how I was going to find community since I'm fully remote, but I've been embraced so warmly and they've been such a welcoming team. Finding community and feeling secure enough to ask those questions and lead with curiosity and being met with just transparency and civility - just to remember that I also lead with good intention. It is a male-dominated space, it is competitive, there's a lot of buzzwords, but as long as you stand steadfast in what you believe and come from a good place with good intentions, that will show through.
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