Director of People Operations

This role owns how it works to be an employee at Legora on the backend. You will operationalise every stage of the employee journey, making sure every moment is supported by clean systems, accurate data, and processes that scale. You will lead a distributed People Operations team across Stockholm and New York, reporting to the VP, People Operations. As we enter new markets, you will also build and manage local specialisms to handle day-to-day employee and manager questions and run structured, lower-complexity casework, with a clean handoff to Employee Relations for anything that becomes formal, contested, or carries legal weight.

Responsibilities

Own the full employee lifecycle operationally, from offer to exit; Own HRIS and data integrity, including onboarding new hires into the HRIS, data entry, and data QA; Manage contracts and changes, including addendums, employee transfers, salary and reporting-line changes, working closely with Payroll; Run day-to-day benefits and leave administration across markets, escalating contested, discriminatory, or medically complex cases to Employee Relations; Build out the local HR Generalist / People Advisor-Ops layer as Legora enters new markets; Run the People tech stack (HiBob, Ashby, Ironclad), drive adoption, and take manual work out of the process; Design scalable, well-documented processes and SOPs for every program employees touch; Partner with Legal and Finance on compliance and controls, including working time, leave, and entity or EOR transitions; Own people data quality and the reporting backbone for People analytics; Lead a distributed People Operations team across Stockholm and New York, reporting to the VP, People Operations

Requirements

8+ years in People Operations or HR Operations, including leading a team and building out local, in-market HR capability as a company scales into new geographies, ideally in a high-growth or global company; Deep HRIS expertise across complex, multidisciplinary system landscapes, with a strong interest in data quality, integrations, AI and tools; A track record of building and scaling lifecycle processes and SOPs internationally, and 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, with clear judgment on what your team owns directly and what belongs with Employee Relations, Legal, or Total Rewards; An operator's mindset: detail-obsessed, systems-thinking, and a high bar for accuracy; Comfort partnering across Finance, Legal, and IT, and communicating clearly with employees and leaders alike; Fluency in English, which is our working language