Director of Global Workplace Technology - New York

Legora Legora · Vertical AI · New York, NY · IT

This role is for a Director of Global Workplace Technology at Legora, an AI-native legal tech company. The Director will own the on-site technology experience across all Legora offices, lead Workplace Technology Leads, set global standards for hardware, AV, networking, and security, manage the budget and vendor framework, and partner on office buildouts. The role involves working with Information Security, IT Systems, and People teams, and running the function on Legora's AI-native ITSM (Serval) for automated service operations. The ideal candidate has 10+ years of IT/workplace technology experience, is a builder of functions, and a strong cross-functional partner.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead and grow the five Workplace Technology Leads — one per major site (Stockholm, London, New York, Sydney, Denver) — hiring, developing, and holding a consistent bar across all of them.
  2. Set and own the global standards every site runs on — hardware, AV and conferencing, network, physical-security infrastructure, and the day-one onboarding bar — so a Legora office feels the same wherever it is.
  3. Own the Workplace Technology budget and vendor framework globally: forecast with Finance, standardize vendors and contracts, and feed the site budgets that Workplace owns.
  4. Partner with Workplace on every buildout and expansion — owning the technology scope (AV, network, and badge / camera / cabling commissioning) within their fit-outs, from requirements at kickoff to a clean first day of business.
  5. Work with Information Security on access, network, and device controls, with IT Systems on the network spine and endpoint estate, and with People on onboarding.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years in IT / workplace technology, AV, or facilities-adjacent technical operations
  • multi-site or global responsibility
  • managing managers or senior ICs
  • building functions
  • setting standards
  • hiring teams
  • making distributed sites feel like one company
  • hands-on technical debugging
  • budget conversation with Finance
  • cross-functional partnership
  • comfortable across time zones
  • standards-minded
  • pragmatic

Nice to have

  • Global or multi-site workplace technology / corporate IT leadership
  • AV and conferencing
  • office network (Meraki)
  • physical-security platforms (e.g. Verkada) at scale
  • Office buildouts and fit-outs end to end
  • ITSM and AI-assisted, agentic service operations
  • Budget ownership and vendor / contract management across regions
  • Experience with Neat, Zoom, Meraki, Verkada, Jamf, Apple Business Manager, Okta / Microsoft Entra ID, and 1Password

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-native ITSM (Serval)
  • agentic automation