Senior Director, People Operations

Legora Legora · Vertical AI · London, United Kingdom · People

This role is for a Senior Director of People Operations at Legora, an AI-native legal tech company. The company is experiencing rapid growth and is looking for someone to design and implement people programs for onboarding, performance, manager development, and market expansion. The role involves leading a team and partnering with People Tech and HRBPs. The ideal candidate will have experience building and scaling people programs in a high-growth environment, with a focus on manager development and international expansion.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own onboarding end to end: the experience, the content, the logistics, and the measurement. Design for a company adding people fast across multiple time zones and legal entities, where the first few weeks set the tone.
  2. Build and run the performance framework. Define how Legora sets expectations, gives feedback, and makes promotion and pay decisions at scale. Partner with HRBPs to make sure it lands consistently across functions and geographies.
  3. Own manager development. Legora has grown its management layer quickly across multiple markets; this role builds the infrastructure to support and develop them. Design the programs, identify the gaps, and work with leaders to close them.
  4. Lead the People program workstream for market expansion. When Legora enters a new geography, this role owns the People side: onboarding localisation, policy adaptation, and the employee experience from day one.
  5. Partner with People Tech on the system and data layer that sits behind every program. Own the process design; let People Tech own the tooling.
  6. Build the operating rhythm across the People function: the cadences, the planning cycles, and the cross-functional touchpoints that keep a fast-moving People team coordinated.

Skills

Required

  • Experience building People programs in a company scaling through a similar headcount inflection point.
  • A track record of leading manager development at scale.
  • Experience supporting geographic expansion from a People perspective.
  • Comfort working at the intersection of People programs, People Tech, and HRBPs.
  • A team leadership track record.

What the JD emphasized

  • scaling through a similar headcount inflection point
  • designed onboarding and performance frameworks that scaled with the business and held up under pressure
  • leading manager development at scale
  • supporting geographic expansion from a People perspective
  • team leadership track record
  • managed and developed People professionals
  • build a function alongside a fast-moving business