Strategic Programs Manager

Legora Legora · Vertical AI · New York, NY · Growth

This role supports and scales the Legal Engineering function by managing strategic initiatives, deployment plans, and project hygiene. It acts as a connective layer across teams to drive clarity and progress, ensuring the overall system around Legal Engineers is stronger, faster, and more effective. The role focuses on operational rigor and execution to deliver AI implementations for law firms.

What you'd actually do

  1. Supporting the development and execution of Legal Engineering initiatives across the US market
  2. Partnering with Legal Engineers to design and deliver deployment plans, including work planning, sequencing, and execution
  3. Assisting in the coordination of our Legal Engineering resources for the delivery of local and cross-border implementations and ensuring Legora best practices are followed for global consistency in delivery
  4. Helping launch and scale strategic initiatives within an ever-growing Legal Engineering function
  5. Monitoring and analysing adoption metrics via our analytics dashboards to identify friction points in the user journey and proposing strategic interventions during the implementation with the Engagement Managers

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of experience in management consulting, strategy, or transformation / implementation-focused roles
  • Bachelor's degree
  • Experience within a professional services environment (Legal, Big 4, or Management Consulting) is highly preferred
  • PowerPoint power-user with a high-velocity output and proven ability to synthesise ‘messy’ ideas into structured, aesthetic, and boardroom-ready decks
  • Strong analytical skills and can translate data into clear, actionable insights
  • Obsession with user adoption and responding to client needs
  • Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail
  • Communicate clearly and confidently, with the ability to influence stakeholders across teams
  • Take ownership naturally
  • Practical problem-solver with a strong bias toward execution and operational rigor
  • Relentless, hands-on, get-it-done mindset

Nice to have

  • Experience within a professional services environment (Legal, Big 4, or Management Consulting)

What the JD emphasized

  • world-class AI implementations
  • strategic initiatives
  • ambitious initiatives
  • strategic efforts
  • strategic initiatives
  • strategic initiatives
  • user adoption
  • operational rigor