Team Lead Legal Engineer, In-House - Paris

The role

You will lead and develop a team of Legal Engineers while personally running strategic corporate and public-sector engagements. You will report to the Director of Legal Engineering, South EMEA.

What you will do

• Leading the team day to day including priorities, 1:1s, coaching, quality review, capacity and escalations
• Hiring, onboarding and developing Legal Engineers
• Personally leading high-value engagements with General Counsels, legal leadership teams and legal operations
• Turning commercial priorities into execution with Go-To-Market and Engagement teams
• Helping legal departments build the business case for AI
• Turning what works into reusable methods like playbooks, templates, French-language content and training
• Being the voice of French in-house teams inside Legora by bringing product feedback to the Product team
• Representing Legora in the French legal market

Required qualifications

• Strong legal background, typically 8+ years of experience
• Senior in-house roles in a large organisation
• Proven people management including hiring, coaching, giving hard feedback and managing performance
• Commercial acumen regarding legal department funding, value proof and technology buying
• Credibility with General Counsels and their leadership teams
• Ability to align legal, IT, procurement and the business
• Real fluency with generative AI
• Native or bilingual French
• Fluent English

Nice to have

• Experience leading legal transformation, legal operations or a technology implementation in a legal department
• Experience in legal tech, legal AI or consulting to legal functions
• Public-sector or regulated-industry experience

About the company

Legora is building an AI-native workspace for legal professionals. The company has 2,100+ customers across 80+ countries and has scaled to $200M+ in ARR.