Senior Manager, Workforce Planning & Analytics

Location: New York City, United States; on-site at the Union Square office

Salary: $215.9K–$254K annually, plus equity

Company

Legora develops an AI-native workspace that helps legal professionals analyze documents and manage end-to-end legal workflows.

What you will do

• Own the companywide headcount plan, including employees, approved openings, future hiring, start dates, locations, levels, and costs.
• Forecast personnel costs across salary, bonuses, commissions, employer taxes, benefits, and share-based compensation, with monthly variance analysis.
• Govern requisitions, replacements, transfers, and role changes to ensure alignment with the approved financial plan.
• Translate operating plans into hiring plans by function, geography, level, and timing while partnering with business leaders, People, and Talent Acquisition.
• Maintain the financial source of truth across Ashby, HRIS, and financial planning systems.
• Build workforce reporting, dashboards, efficiency metrics, controls, and materials for management, the Board, investors, and auditors.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in FP&A, workforce planning, or commercial finance, with ownership of headcount and personnel cost.
• Experience in a technology and/or scale-up startup environment.
• Strong knowledge of workforce metrics, including spans and layers, attrition and replacement modeling, ramp, cost per hire, and functional headcount ratios.
• Hands-on experience managing hiring plans and personnel cost forecasts, including in-year reforecasting.
• Strong financial modeling, analytical, problem-solving, execution, and communication skills.
• Experience working with ATS and HRIS data, position management, and system implementations or migrations.

Nice to have

• Experience with Ashby, HiBob or Workday, ERP systems, and planning or BI tools.

Culture & Benefits

• In-person work environment in the Union Square office with company-provided lunch.
• Collaboration with teams and clients across Europe, APAC, and North America.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, with HSA or Healthcare FSA options.
• Parental leave, Maven Clinic access, dependent care FSA, and One Medical membership.
• 401(k) with company match, unlimited PTO, commuter benefits, life insurance, and short- and long-term disability coverage.