Legora
legal tech
LeadLegalEngineer
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“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.
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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