Senior Operations Manager - Esg & Sustainability

Legora Legora · Vertical AI · Stockholm, Sweden · Operations

This role is for a Senior Operations Manager focused on ESG & Sustainability at an AI-native legal tech company. The primary responsibility is to build and own the company's ESG function from scratch, including reporting automation using AI, carbon accounting, and client-facing representation. A key aspect is understanding and managing the climate footprint of datacenters and compute, and leveraging AI for reporting efficiency.

What you'd actually do

  1. Stand up and take long-term ownership of Legora's ESG function — defining the strategy, commitments, and operating plan to ensure our frameworks mature as the company grows.
  2. Automate the reporting stack: build AI-driven workflows for CSRD and RFP/security questionnaires so disclosures are generated, not hand-assembled.
  3. Own CSRD readiness and reporting: scope the requirements, build the data collection, and produce the disclosures with Finance and Legal.
  4. Own Legora's compute and datacentre climate footprint — model it, track efficiency trends as chips and datacentres improve, and turn it into a credible forward-looking story.
  5. Build the GHG/carbon accounting model and run the carbon offset programme — measurement, reduction targets, and credible offsets.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years in ESG, sustainability, or a related compliance/operating role, with hands-on reporting experience.
  • Deep AI and datacentre fluency — you can navigate the climate footprint of large datacentres and see ahead on efficiency trends as chips and compute get better.
  • An AI-first mindset — you automate reporting (CSRD, EcoVadis, CDP, SBTi, RFP) with AI rather than running it by hand.
  • Working knowledge of CSRD and GHG accounting (or the ability to get up to speed fast and own it).
  • Comfortable client-facing — you hold your own on calls with client leadership teams, CXOs, and partner groups.
  • A great, direct communicator, strong in slides and analytics — preferably an MBB / top-tier strategy consulting background.
  • Strong operating discipline: you turn a regulatory requirement into a data pipeline, a deadline, and a clean disclosure.

Nice to have

  • Have built and/or led a tech company's ESG strategy from scratch.
  • Bring experience in a regulated or enterprise-sales environment where ESG credentials affect deals.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-driven workflows
  • compute and datacentre climate footprint
  • AI-first mindset