Legal Engineer, In-house

Legora Legora · Vertical AI · Munich, Germany · Growth

This role is for a Legal Engineer at Legora, an AI-native legal tech company. The role focuses on helping in-house legal teams maximize the value of Legora's platform, acting as a thought partner, product specialist, and client advisor. It involves understanding client needs, delivering product demos and training, and advocating for user insights to inform product development. The role requires a background in law with experience in in-house legal teams or legal operations, and a strong curiosity for technology, particularly generative AI, and its application in legal workflows.

What you'd actually do

  1. Acting as a thought partner to General Counsels, Legal Operations leaders, and in-house teams - building trusted relationships, addressing tricky pain points, and identifying high-value opportunities for them to scale their use of Legora across their legal function.
  2. Working together with Go To Market and Engagement in taking full ownership of client relationships - from running pilots with key business units, to onboarding new team members, and ultimately guiding department-wide adoption across corporate legal teams.
  3. Be the voice of in-house users inside Legora - sharing insights from legal ops teams, commercial lawyers, and compliance functions 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 - whether you're presenting to a GC, rolling out to regional teams, or training legal ops professionals.
  5. Documenting best practices from leading legal departments, contribute to the development of scalable playbooks, and help shape how we grow this function globally.

Skills

Required

  • Background in law with experience in an in-house legal team or corporate legal department
  • Exposure to legal operations, process improvement, or technology implementation
  • Tech-curious and product-savvy
  • Passionate about navigating technical conversations, especially around things like generative AI, technology implementation, innovation and productivity
  • Communicate clearly and confidently with diverse stakeholders
  • Translating across disciplines is second nature
  • Bring structure to ambiguity and energy to complexity
  • Calm, credible presence in a fast-moving environment
  • Understand how to evaluate and improve existing processes as a direct result of new and emerging technologies
  • Proactive, self-directed
  • Comfortable juggling multiple client relationships at once
  • Care deeply about quality
  • Understand the commercial realities of in-house life

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-native workspace
  • scale their use of Legora
  • voice of in-house users
  • generative AI
  • AI will impact different functions