Legal Engineer - In-house

Legora Legora · Vertical AI · San Francisco, CA · Legal Engineering

This role is for a Legal Engineer at Legora, an AI-native legal tech company. The role focuses on helping in-house legal teams leverage the company's AI platform to improve efficiency and outcomes. Responsibilities include acting as a thought partner, managing client relationships, providing product demos and training, and gathering user feedback to inform product development. The ideal candidate has a background in law, is tech-curious, and understands how AI impacts legal functions.

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 Customer Success 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
  • Tech-curious and product-savvy
  • Communicate clearly and confidently with diverse stakeholders
  • 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

Nice to have

  • exposure to legal operations, process improvement, or technology implementation
  • passion for navigating technical conversations, especially around things like generative AI, technology implementation, innovation and productivity
  • translating across disciplines is second nature
  • Bring structure to ambiguity and energy to complexity
  • Care deeply about quality, but don't get stuck in perfectionism
  • Understand the commercial realities of in-house life

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-native workspace
  • evaluating the ROI and efficiency gains of AI
  • how AI will impact different functions