Senior Manager, People Advisors

The role

You will establish Legora's first local People Advisory layer by building the team and its capability from the ground up. You will lead hiring, onboarding, and develop a distributed team of People Advisors to provide local advice and handle casework. You will also implement an AI-first way of working to simplify processes and improve access to advice.

What you will do

• Establish the Advisory team from the ground up.
• Coach Advisors towards independent delivery.
• Build a trusted, visible People presence in each market.
• Oversee probation, performance and absence cases.
• Equip Advisors to coach managers through people matters.
• Close gaps in local policies, playbooks and processes.
• Partner with Employee Relations & Compliance on Advisor certification and training.
• Partner with People Operations on self-service content and workflows.
• Coordinate Advisor support for people programs and new markets.
• Use case reviews and service data to improve quality and response times.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years in HR generalist, People Advisory or operational HR roles, including leading a team across markets in a growing international company.
• Strong experience of coaching and advising managers, challenging constructively and overseeing probation, performance and absence cases.
• Knowledge of employment practices across multiple jurisdictions.
• Track record of building local HR capability and closing policy and process gaps.
• Practical experience applying AI to advisory work, knowledge management or case administration.
• Comfort working in a tiered People model.
• Hands-on leadership style.
• Strong stakeholder relationships.
• High bar for documentation, confidentiality and the quality of advice.
• Fluency in English.

About the company

Legora is an AI-native workspace for legal professionals. The company has 2,100+ customers across 80+ countries and teams across Europe, North America and APAC.