Lead Legal Engineer

Legora Legora · Vertical AI · Toronto, ON · Growth

Legora is redefining legal work with an AI-native workspace. This Lead Legal Engineer role focuses on driving adoption and delivering measurable outcomes for clients by leading enterprise-level pilots and implementations, owning client use cases end-to-end, and acting as a senior thought partner. The role also involves people leadership, managing and developing a team of Legal Engineers, and influencing internal product and go-to-market teams. The ideal candidate has a background in law, experience in legal tech, and strong people management and client delivery skills, with a good grasp of generative AI and legal workflows.

What you'd actually do

  1. Leading enterprise-level pilots and implementations across multiple stakeholders and products, from discovery through go-live, with clear success metrics.
  2. Owning priority client use cases end-to-end, shaping scalable onboarding and implementation frameworks.
  3. Acting as a senior thought partner to clients, building trusted relationships with partners, legal ops, and innovation leaders.
  4. Delivering executive-level demos, workshops, and presentations, clearly articulating value and handling complex objections.
  5. Influencing internal teams (Product, Go-to-Market, Customer Success) on implementation strategy, setup, and handover.

Skills

Required

  • Background in law
  • Direct people management experience
  • Senior experience delivering complex client implementations or programmes
  • Product-savvy and tech-curious
  • Strong grasp of generative AI and legal workflows
  • Clear and confident communication with technical and non-technical audiences
  • Stakeholder and programme management

Nice to have

  • Experience in legal tech or a technology-driven environment

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-native workspace
  • generative AI
  • legal tech
  • people management experience
  • senior experience delivering complex client implementations or programmes

Other signals

  • AI-native workspace
  • AI tools
  • generative AI
  • legal tech