Director, Legal Engineering

The role

The Director, Legal Engineering will lead the Legal Engineering function for the West Coast from the San Francisco office. You will build the team and its manager layer, partner with Go-to-Market and Engagement, and lead high-stakes client engagements.

What you will do

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

Required qualifications

• Qualified lawyer (JD and admission to at least one US bar)
• 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, ideally 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
• Based in the San Francisco Bay Area
• Able to work from our San Francisco office five days per week

Nice to have

• Experience from a leading law firm, an in-house legal function, legal operations, legal innovation, professional services, or legal technology

Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision
• Multiple medical plan options through Aetna and Kaiser Permanente
• HSA or Healthcare FSA
• Dental plans via MetLife
• Vision plans via Vision Care
• Generous parental leave
• Free access to Maven Clinic
• Dependent Care FSA
• Free One Medical membership for employees and dependents
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Life Insurance + STD/LTD
• 401(K) with generous company match

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.