Director, Cloud & AI Partnerships

Legora Legora · Vertical AI · New York, NY · Go To Market (GTM)

Director, Cloud & AI Partnerships role at Legora, an AI-native legal tech company. This role focuses on building and managing relationships with cloud and AI platform partners, developing co-sell motions, managing marketplace presence, and driving joint go-to-market strategies. The goal is to integrate Legora's AI workspace with major cloud providers to accelerate sales and enhance customer adoption. The role requires strategic planning, cross-functional collaboration, and experience in enterprise SaaS or AI partnerships.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own Legora's relationships with key cloud and AI platform partners, building strong working relationships with their alliance, co-sell, and field teams.
  2. Build and run the co-sell motion including account mapping with cloud field reps, joint pipeline development, and making sure Legora is positioned and enabled within the partner's sales teams.
  3. Manage Legora's marketplace listings and transactable presence, ensuring we're discoverable and easy to buy through the channels our customers prefer.
  4. Develop joint go-to-market plans with each partner, including demand generation programs, field engagement, and executive alignment.
  5. Work with Sales to bring cloud partnerships into active deals where partner involvement accelerates the close.

Skills

Required

  • Cloud alliances
  • Hyperscaler partnerships
  • Strategic technology partnerships
  • Enterprise SaaS
  • AI company experience
  • Co-sell motion development
  • Pipeline generation
  • Cloud and AI platform operations
  • Partner programs
  • Co-sell mechanics
  • Marketplace economics
  • Cross-functional collaboration (Sales, Product, Marketing)
  • Executive presence
  • Building from scratch
  • Setting direction

Nice to have

  • Legal tech experience
  • Selling into professional services buyers
  • Partner-side experience at major cloud/AI platform
  • Marketplace transaction structures
  • Co-sell incentive programs

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years in cloud alliances, hyperscaler partnerships, or strategic technology partnerships at an enterprise SaaS or AI company.
  • A track record of building co-sell motions that actually generated pipeline — not just relationships, but deals.
  • Deep familiarity with how cloud and AI platforms operate: their partner programs, co-sell mechanics, marketplace economics, and how their field teams make decisions.
  • Comfort building from scratch in a high-growth environment where you're expected to set direction, not just execute a playbook.