Director of People Operations

London. Posted a month ago

The role

You will operationalise the full employee lifecycle and manage the backend employee journey. You will lead a distributed People Operations team across Stockholm and New York to ensure accurate data, systems, and processes.

What you will do

Own the full employee lifecycle from offer to exit
Manage HRIS and data integrity
Handle contracts and changes including salary and reporting-line updates
Run day-to-day administration of benefits and leave
Hire, ramp, and manage local HR Generalist/People Advisor-Ops layers in new markets
Run the People tech stack including HiBob, Ashby, and Ironclad
Design scalable, well-documented processes and SOPs
Partner with Legal and Finance to maintain compliance across markets
Own people data quality and reporting for People analytics

Required qualifications

8+ years in People Operations or HR Operations
Experience leading a team
Experience building out local, in-market HR capability as a company scales into new geographies
Deep HRIS expertise across complex, multidisciplinary system landscapes
Track record of building and scaling lifecycle processes and SOPs internationally
Track record of moving work from manual to automated
Strong grasp of multi-jurisdiction employment compliance across EMEA, AMER, and APAC
Comfort operating in a tiered People model
Detail-obsessed, systems-thinking, and a high bar for accuracy
Comfort partnering across Finance, Legal, and IT
Fluency in English

Nice to have

Experience in a high-growth or global company

About the company

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