Lead Legal Engineer

Legora AB•Toronto, ON

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Legora is redefining how legal work gets done, built with lawyers for lawyers. Our AI-native workspace empowers legal professionals with speed, clarity, and precision by analyzing documents and powering end-to-end workflows. We serve over 1,000 customers in more than 50 countries, including top-tier law firms and corporations. With a strong ARR growth and global teams, Legora is expanding through strategic acquisitions. Joining Legora means embracing ownership, striving for excellence with direct feedback, and growing together as a team, prioritizing mission over ego and ensuring everyone contributes. As a Lead Legal Engineer, you will operate as a player-coach, spearheading Legora’s most complex and high-impact client engagements while managing and developing a team of Legal Engineers. This role requires a blend of deep legal knowledge, product expertise, and people leadership to drive client adoption, accelerate time-to-value, and deliver measurable outcomes for both clients and your team.

Requirements

A background in law, with experience at a top-tier firm, in-house legal team, or legal tech environment.
Direct people management experience, including hiring, developing, and performance-managing a team in a client-facing or delivery environment.
Senior experience delivering complex client implementations or programmes with multiple stakeholders.
Product-savvy and tech-curious, with a strong grasp of generative AI and legal workflows.
Ability to communicate clearly and confidently with both technical and non-technical audiences.
Excellent stakeholder and programme management skills, with the ability to influence priorities and navigate high-stakes conversations.
Ability to bring structure to complexity, move quickly without sacrificing quality, and focus on outcomes over perfection.

Nice To Haves

Experience in legal tech or a technology-driven environment.

Responsibilities

Leading enterprise-level pilots and implementations across multiple stakeholders and products, from discovery through go-live, with clear success metrics.
Owning priority client use cases end-to-end, shaping scalable onboarding and implementation frameworks.
Acting as a senior thought partner to clients, building trusted relationships with partners, legal ops, and innovation leaders.
Delivering executive-level demos, workshops, and presentations, clearly articulating value and handling complex objections.
Influencing internal teams (Product, Go-to-Market, Customer Success) on implementation strategy, setup, and handover.
Representing the voice of the customer, surfacing product gaps with evidence and driving them through to resolution.
Building and refining team processes, systems, and operating rhythms that scale delivery quality and team effectiveness as the Legal Engineering function grows.
Providing ongoing coaching, feedback, and career development support to drive individual and team growth.
Managing and developing a team of Legal Engineers, setting clear goals, expectations, and performance standards.
Leading hiring efforts for the Legal Engineering team, helping to attract and onboard top talent.