Legal Engineer

Legora Legora · Vertical AI · Toronto, ON · Growth

This role is for a Legal Engineer at Legora, an AI-native legal tech company. The role focuses on supporting the company's expansion in the Canadian market, building client relationships, driving adoption of the Legora platform, and acting as a liaison between clients and the product team. The ideal candidate has a legal background, is tech-curious, and can translate technical concepts to legal professionals.

What you'd actually do

  1. Play a key role in supporting the company’s expansion into the Canadian market, contributing to strategic growth initiatives in this region.
  2. Acting as a thought partner to clients - building trusted relationships, addressing tricky pain points, and identifying high-value opportunities for them to scale their use of Legora.
  3. Working together with Customer Success in taking full ownership of client relationship - from running pilots in the early stages, to onboarding new users, and ultimately guiding full-firm adoption across major law firms and corporate legal departments.
  4. Be the voice of the user inside Legora - sharing insights that directly inform product development, roadmap priorities, and strategic direction.
  5. Delivering clear, confident product demos and training that bring the power of our platform to life.

Skills

Required

  • Background in law, with experience at a top-tier firm or in-house legal team.
  • Tech-curious and product-savvy.
  • Communicate clearly and confidently with diverse stakeholders, both lawyers and engineers.
  • Understand how to evaluate and improve existing processes as a direct result of new and emerging technologies
  • Proactive, self-directed, and comfortable juggling multiple client relationships at once.

Nice to have

  • Desire to bring cutting edge legal technology to the world class Canadian legal market
  • Have had experience beyond the traditional legal career path.
  • Passionate navigating technical conversations, especially around things like generative AI, technology implementation, innovation and productivity .
  • Bring structure to ambiguity and energy to complexity; and enjoy being the calm, credible presence in a fast-moving environment.
  • Care deeply about quality, but don’t get stuck in perfectionism - you get things done, and you make them better over time.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-native workspace
  • AI will impact different practice areas
  • generative AI