Team Lead Legal Engineering, Law-Firms - Paris

The role

You will lead and develop a team of Legal Engineers while personally running strategic firm engagements. You will act as a player-coach to drive AI adoption within French law firms.

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 from discovery and pilots to firm-wide rollouts
• Turning commercial priorities into execution with Go-To-Market and Engagement teams
• Building relationships at partner and management level
• Designing sponsor and champion models inside firms
• Turning what works into reusable methods like playbooks, templates, French-language content and training
• Being the voice of French law firms inside Legora to provide product feedback
• Representing Legora in the French legal market

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in sophisticated law-firm practice
• Proven people management including hiring, coaching, and managing performance
• Commercial acumen regarding how firms make money and buy
• Credibility with senior lawyers to run workshops and lead executive readouts
• Real fluency with generative AI
• Native or bilingual French
• Fluent English

Nice to have

• Experience in legal innovation, knowledge management, legal tech or legal AI
• A track record of building something: a practice, a team, a function or a company
• A visible voice in the French legal community

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.