Senior Director, Legal Innovation (corporate Legal)

Legora Legora · Vertical AI · New York, NY · Go To Market (GTM)

This role is for a Senior Director of Legal Innovation at Legora, an AI-native legal tech company. The position focuses on representing the company in the corporate legal community, advising clients on AI adoption strategies, and developing ROI frameworks for AI in legal departments. It involves thought leadership, public speaking, content creation, and strategic advisory, with a strong emphasis on understanding the economics and psychology of legal leadership.

What you'd actually do

  1. Represent Legora across panels, industry forums, and the legal-innovation community, with a focus on in-house and corporate legal teams.
  2. Advise customers' innovation and knowledge teams on AI transformation — strategy, rollout, AI policy, and measures of success.
  3. Partner closely with the VP of Legal Innovation & Strategy and serve as a senior Legora voice across speaking, content, and executive advisory.
  4. Own special projects — most immediately, partnering with Value Engineering to build out ROI frameworks for in-house legal teams.
  5. Publish analysis that moves the market narrative.

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years in a legal-innovation, legal-operations, outside-counsel-management, knowledge, or strategy role at a corporate legal team, top law firm, or legal-tech company.
  • Genuine fluency in how legal organizations operate and make decisions — the economics and psychology of legal leadership, not just the tooling.
  • Executive presence with GCs, CLOs, CIOs, and innovation leaders, and the ability to translate across legal, business, and technical audiences.
  • A strong, demonstrated public point of view — through writing and conference speaking.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI transformation
  • AI policy
  • ROI frameworks