Director, Legal Engineering

Legora is an AI-native workspace that lets legal professionals move faster and work with more precision. The Director, Legal Engineering will make Legal Engineering the commercial and delivery engine for the West Coast, anchored in the San Francisco office. Reporting to the Head of Legal Engineering, North America, the role sets the craft bar, builds the team and its Team Lead layer, partners with Go-to-Market and Engagement, leads selectively on high-stakes clients, and turns local learning into playbooks that scale across North America. This is a Director-level leadership role focused on the quality and performance of the team and system built.

Responsibilities

Lead the Legal Engineering function for the West Coast from the San Francisco office, including its operating rhythm, quality bar, capacity model and local partnership with Go-to-Market and Engagement; Hire exceptional Legal Engineers and future leaders, owning the quality bar from sourcing through onboarding and ramp; Build a manager layer of Team Leads who each own and develop a group of Legal Engineers and create clear succession paths; Give direct, evidence-based feedback, coach hard and act decisively when the performance or values bar is not met; Partner with West Coast commercial leadership on priority accounts, pilots, rollouts and escalations, connecting Legal Engineering activity to conversion, adoption, usage, expansion and revenue; Act as lead legal architect on selected enterprise engagements and turn successful delivery into reusable playbooks; Oversee complex, multi-stakeholder programs with clear governance, outcomes, leading indicators and risk management; Build trusted relationships with Managing Partners, General Counsels, Heads of Innovation, Legal Operations leaders and other senior stakeholders; Represent the market's voice inside Legora by translating client patterns and product gaps into actionable input for Product; Shape Legora's point of view on AI and legal work in the Bay Area and across the West Coast; Create clean handoffs across Go-to-Market, Legal Engineering and Engagement

Requirements

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; deep curiosity about generative AI and product, with ability to learn the platform, challenge use-case design and coach client work; ability to hold your own with a Managing Partner, General Counsel or executive team while remaining practical with the people doing the work; understanding of the commercial realities of legal services and enterprise software; ability to bring structure to ambiguity; strong hiring and performance judgment; based in the San Francisco Bay Area and able to work from the San Francisco office five days per week, with travel for strategic clients, market development and team leadership

Benefits

Global collaboration with teams and clients domestically and internationally; Competitive package with comprehensive salary, benefits and tools for success; Medical, dental and vision plans (Aetna, Kaiser Permanente, HSA or Healthcare FSA, MetLife dental, Vision Care vision); 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 and STD/LTD; 401(K) with generous company match; Unlimited PTO; Voluntary benefits including identity protection (Aura), legal coverage via MetLife and pet savings programs