Director, Legal Engineering

The role

You will lead the Legal Engineering function for Canada, building the team and its leadership layer. You will partner with commercial leadership, act as a lead legal architect for enterprise engagements, and translate client patterns into product input.

What you will do

• Lead the Legal Engineering function for Canada from the Toronto office
• Hire Legal Engineers and future leaders
• Build a manager layer of Team Leads
• Give direct, evidence-based feedback and coach the team
• Partner with Canadian commercial leadership on priority accounts and pilots
• Act as the lead legal architect on selected enterprise engagements
• Oversee complex, multi-stakeholder programs
• Build relationships with Managing Partners, General Counsels, and other senior stakeholders
• Translate client patterns and product gaps into input for Product
• Create handoffs across Go-to-Market, Legal Engineering and Engagement

Required qualifications

• Qualified lawyer, licensed (or eligible to be licensed) in Ontario or another Canadian jurisdiction
• Substantial legal, legal-operations or legal-technology experience
• Strong understanding of how sophisticated law firms and in-house legal teams make decisions
• Experience building a team, function, market or new operating model from a low base
• Experience managing and developing strong people, including managers or Team Leads
• Ability to learn the platform and challenge use-case design
• Ability to connect Legal Engineering to pipeline, client value, adoption, usage and revenue
• Strong hiring and performance judgment
• Communicate fluently in English, in writing and in person
• Based in the Greater Toronto Area
• Able to work from the Toronto office five days per week
• Able to travel across Canada

Nice to have

• French is a strong plus

Benefits

• Global collaboration
• Competitive package including comprehensive salary, benefits, and tools for success
• Meaningful work
• In-person environment in a Toronto office
• Comprehensive, thoughtfully designed benefits package

About the company

Legora is an AI-native workspace for legal professionals. They work with legal teams across 80+ countries and have scaled to $200M+ in ARR.