Legora

legal tech

LeadLegalEngineer

$285–372k Chicago, United States FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Lead Legal Engineer at Legora. Skills: legal knowledge, product expertise, people leadership, client engagements, team management. leading Legora’s most complex and high-impact client engagements. managing and developing a team of Legal Engineers”

What You'll Achieve.

drive adoption; accelerate time-to-value; deliver measurable outcomes; clear success metrics; focus on outcomes over perfection

Industry & Context.

legal tech

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

background in law, with experience at a top-tier firm, in-house legal team, or legal tech environment, direct people management experience, including hiring, developing, and performance-managing a team in a client-facing or delivery environment, senior experience delivering complex client implementations or programmes with multiple stakeholders, product-savvy and tech-curious, with a grasp of generative AI and legal workflows, communicate clearly and confidently with both technical and non-technical audiences, excel at stakeholder and programme management, influencing priorities and navigating high-stakes conversations

Nice to Have

experience in legal tech or a technology-driven environment

What You'll Do.

leading Legora’s most complex and high-impact client engagements

managing and developing a team of Legal Engineers

accelerate time-to-value

and deliver measurable outcomes across clients and team

Leading enterprise-level pilots and implementations across multiple stakeholders and products

from discovery through go-live

with clear success metrics

Owning priority client use cases end-to-end

shaping scalable onboarding and implementation frameworks

Building and refining team processes

and operating rhythms that scale delivery quality and team effectiveness

Providing ongoing coaching

and career development support

Managing and developing a team of Legal Engineers

and performance standards

Leading hiring efforts for the Legal Engineering team

helping to attract and onboard top talent

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner with teams and clients domestic and internationally; Influencing internal teams (Product, Go-to-Market, Customer Success) on implementation strategy, setup, and handover; Representing the voice of the customer, surfacing product gaps with evidence and driving them through to resolution

Communication Scope

communicate clearly and confidently with both technical and non-technical audiences; Delivering executive-level demos, workshops, and presentations, clearly articulating value and handling complex objections

Process & Methodology

programme management, stakeholder management, delivery, implementations, pilots

Full Job Description

ABOUT US Legora is redefining how legal work gets done. Not built for lawyers, built with them. We work alongside the world’s best legal teams, who expect excellence, precision, and speed, and we hold ourselves to the same bar. Our AI-native workspace lets legal professionals move faster, think more clearly, and operate with sharper precision. By analysing thousands of documents in minutes and powering end-to-end workflows, we cut through complexity, teams can focus on what matters: judgment, strategy, and outcomes. 1,000+ customers across 50+ countries trust us, including Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin, Linklaters, White & Case, Dentons, and Barclays. We’ve scaled to $100M+ in ARR, with teams across Europe, North America and APAC, and continue to expand through acquisitions including Qura, Walter AI and Graceview. We partner with world-class performers: including Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees, Ludvig Åberg (and his caddie), and campaigns featuring Jude Law. Joining Legora means three things. - We lean in: ownership over titles, outcomes over intentions. - We fight for excellence: high standards, direct, ego-free feedback. - We grow together: as a team and with our customers. Mission before ego. Everyone contributes. No one coasts. If you’re driven by impact, pace, and raising the bar. This is the place. THE ROLE As Lead Legal Engineer, you’ll operate as a player-coach: leading Legora’s most complex and high-impact client engagements while managing and developing a team of Legal Engineers. You’ll combine deep legal knowledge, product expertise, and people leadership to drive adoption, accelerate time-to-value, and deliver measurable outcomes across your clients and your team. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Leading enterprise-level pilots and implementations across multiple stakeholders and products, from discovery through go-live, with clear success metrics. - Owning priority client use cases end-to-end, shaping scalable onboarding and implementation frameworks. - Acting as a se

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