Legal Engineer - In-house

Legora Legora · Vertical AI · Houston, TX · Legal Engineering

This role is for a Legal Engineer at an AI-native legal tech company. The primary focus is on helping sophisticated in-house legal teams maximize their use of the company's AI platform. This involves acting as a thought partner, managing client relationships, delivering product demos and training, and gathering 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.

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
  • Experience in 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
  • Translate across disciplines
  • Bring structure to ambiguity and energy to complexity
  • 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

Nice to have

  • Experience in legal tech or consultancy

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-native workspace
  • AI will impact different functions
  • generative AI