Legal Engineer

Legora Legora · Vertical AI · Houston, TX · Growth

This role is for a Legal Engineer at Legora, an AI-native legal workspace company. The role focuses on helping clients maximize the value of the platform, acting as a thought partner, managing client relationships, and providing product demos and training. The Legal Engineer will also serve as the voice of the user to inform product development and strategy. The ideal candidate has a background in law, is tech-curious, and can translate between legal and technical disciplines.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Be the voice of the user inside Legora - sharing insights that directly inform product development, roadmap priorities, and strategic direction.
  4. Delivering clear, confident product demos and training that bring the power of our platform to life.
  5. Documenting best practices, contribute to the development of scalable playbooks, and help shape how we grow this function globally.

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

  • Not necessarily a coder, but 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