Director, Engagement - Mid Market, West

Legora Legora · Vertical AI · San Francisco, CA · Engagement

This role is for a Director of Engagement focused on the mid-market West region for Legora, an AI-native legal tech company. The primary responsibility is to build and lead a team that drives customer adoption, onboarding, and long-term value realization for legal firms and corporations. The role involves defining engagement models, building adoption playbooks, coaching teams to act as strategic advisors, and partnering with cross-functional teams to ensure client success and identify expansion opportunities. While the company is AI-native and the role involves managing the adoption of AI capabilities, the core function is customer success, engagement, and transformation management, not direct AI/ML development or research.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define the engagement model for your vertical, setting the standard for how your team designs each client's adoption playbook: the tailored change-management approach, stakeholder map and target outcomes for how that customer adopts Legora and transforms the way they work.
  2. Build the operating rhythms — portfolio and pipeline reviews, health inspection, coaching cadences — that keep the team executing against those playbooks at scale, sequencing initiatives from initial rollout to firm-wide scaled adoption and adapting as clients' needs and Legora's capabilities evolve.
  3. Coach the team — including other people managers — to act as strategic advisors who deeply understand client goals and legal workflows, reserving yourself for the most strategic accounts and C-suite relationships, to engage executive sponsors, surface high-impact opportunities, and guide clients toward maximum value from Legora.
  4. Set the standard for how the team drives sustained value through a structured operating cadence: success plans, enablement, stakeholder check-ins, training and value reviews — turning what works across portfolios into repeatable, scalable motions the whole vertical adopts.
  5. Partner with Leadership and orchestrate engagement from cross-functional teams across your vertical to accelerate client success (GTM, Product, Legal Engineering, Engineering, Marketing, Support), maintaining end-to-end context across your portfolio and shaping how Legora delivers value.

Skills

Required

  • Customer success leadership
  • Change management
  • Team building and scaling
  • Strategic account management
  • Client relationship management
  • Consulting background
  • Transformation background

Nice to have

  • Legal industry experience
  • Experience with AI-native products

What the JD emphasized

  • build and scale the teams
  • build and scaled the teams
  • scaling it across a vertical takes a high-performing team and the leaders to run it
  • scaling the teams, leaders, and standards