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Legora

Lead Legal Engineer

AI summary of the role

Lead Legal Engineer acting as player-coach: manage and develop a team of Legal Engineers while driving complex, high-impact client implementations.

What you’ll do

  • Lead enterprise-level pilots and implementations across multiple stakeholders and products, from discovery through go-live, with clear success metrics.
  • Own priority client use cases end-to-end, shaping scalable onboarding and implementation frameworks.
  • Act as senior thought partner to clients, building trusted relationships with partners, legal ops, and innovation leaders.
  • Deliver executive-level demos, workshops, and presentations, articulating value and handling complex objections.

What you’ll bring

  • 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 strong grasp of generative AI and legal workflows.

Technologies

generative AI · legal workflows · legal tech · AI-native workspace · document analysis · legal research

About Legora

AI-native workspace for lawyers enabling document analysis, research, and intelligent workflows across 40+ countries in 18 months to $100M ARR.

Series D · 200–500 people

Source and classification

Deployment team leadership · Evidence for this classification:

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
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