SaaS Enablement & Governance Lead

We are hiring our first SaaS Enablement & Governance Lead to own the lifecycle of Legora's entire SaaS and AI portfolio, from enterprise platforms down to the tail of team-level and expensed purchases: intake, renewal, decommissioning, and everything between. You'll be based in our New York office, reporting to the Head of IT.

Responsibilities

Own the single source of truth for every SaaS and AI application (licenses, entitlements, owners, integrations, dependencies); Track utilization against entitlements, reclaim inactive and duplicate licenses, and rightsize the portfolio; Hunt down shadow IT and shadow AI and bring each one under management; Manage usage- and token-based pricing and forecast volatile AI spend; Own the commercial and governance substrate for AI tools, sanctioned-vs-restricted catalog, licensing, and spend; Enforce AI vendor terms commercially in contracts and renewals; Build agentic workflows for discovery, license reclamation, renewal tracking, and provisioning; Own software and SaaS vendor relationships as an engineering-level partner; Build and run a single front door for software and AI requests; Own the renewals calendar across the full portfolio; Partner with Procurement on strategic, high-spend negotiations; Run FinOps for software and AI spend, consolidate overlapping tools, retire unused tools, and execute decommissioning; Manage SaaS configuration as code where possible; Build integrations against SaaS APIs for discovery, utilization, reclamation, and provisioning; Onboard every application to SSO and SCIM as part of intake; Own SaaS-related SOC 2 evidence and third-party application governance; Report utilization, savings, renewal pipeline, AI spend, and compliance to IT leadership and Finance

Requirements

5+ years in software/SaaS asset management, IT vendor management, business systems, IT/enterprise applications, or IT procurement, with clear ownership of license and vendor work; Cost optimization: track record of license rightsizing, renewal negotiation, tool consolidation, and measurable savings; Commercial fluency: comfortable owning negotiations and reading licensing models, including consumption/usage-based and AI pricing, true-ups, and contract terms; Portfolio tooling: has run SaaS discovery, utilization, and license management at scale (commercial platform, pipelines they built, or both), with grounded opinions on when to buy and when to build; Automation & integration: builds with LLM/agent workflows, iPaaS, and scripts against SaaS APIs (e.g., Python), and uses AI tools daily in their own work; Identity governance: SSO/SAML/OIDC and SCIM (Okta or Entra) and how access drives license consumption; AI-era judgment: has evaluated and governed AI tools and can read AI-vendor data terms; Analytical & cross-functional: builds utilization and forecast models, and partners credibly with Finance, Procurement, Security, and tool owners

Nice to have

Experience at a legal, financial, or otherwise regulated / high-trust company; Has stood up a FinOps practice; Exposure to procurement and finance systems (Zip, Coupa, NetSuite, Workday/Adaptive); Built process and tooling from scratch at a fast-scaling company; Certifications: ITIL, FinOps Certified Practitioner, or ServiceNow CIS-SAM

Benefits

Global collaboration: Partner with teams and clients across Europe, APAC, and North America; Competitive package: Comprehensive salary, benefits, and tools for success; Meaningful work: Your efforts shape how thousands of lawyers use AI daily; In-person environment: Union Square office designed for ambitious builders and company provided lunch daily; Medical, Dental & Vision; Multiple medical plan options through Aetna and Kaiser Permanente; HSA or Healthcare FSA (based on plan selection); 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; Unlimited PTO; Robust voluntary benefits, including identity protection (via Aura), legal coverage via MetLife, pet savings programs, and more