Team Lead Legal Engineering (AI)

Location: Paris, France; onsite

Salary: €65K–€170K annually

Company

Legora develops an AI-native workspace for legal professionals, analysing documents and supporting end-to-end legal workflows for law firms and legal teams.

What you will do

• Lead the Legal Engineering team day to day through prioritisation, 1:1s, coaching, quality review, capacity planning and escalations.
• Hire, onboard and develop Legal Engineers while setting the team’s quality standard.
• Personally lead strategic law-firm engagements from discovery and pilots through firm-wide rollouts with partners, practice heads, innovation and IT teams.
• Coordinate with Go-To-Market and Engagement teams to convert pilots, support rollouts, renewals and expansions.
• Build senior relationships and sponsor or champion models inside firms, while representing Legora in the French legal market.
• Create reusable playbooks, templates, French-language content and training, and provide evidence-based product feedback.

Requirements

• Strong legal background with typically 8+ years of experience in sophisticated law-firm practice, ideally at counsel or senior associate level in a top-tier firm.
• Proven people-management experience, including hiring, coaching, giving difficult feedback and managing performance.
• Commercial understanding of how law firms make money, how partners decide and how firms buy, with the ability to connect work to business outcomes.
• Credibility with senior lawyers and the ability to run difficult workshops with partners and lead executive readouts.
• Real fluency with generative AI, including using and testing it, understanding its limitations and explaining why it fails.
• Ability to bring structure without bureaucracy and contribute energy in a fast-growing team.
• Native or bilingual French and fluent English.

Nice to have

• Experience in legal innovation, knowledge management, legal tech or legal AI.
• A track record of building a practice, team, function or company.
• A visible voice in the French legal community.

Culture & Benefits

• High-autonomy role with ownership of how Legal Engineering grows in France.
• Culture centred on ownership, excellence, direct feedback, teamwork and customer impact.
• Fast-moving environment with a newly opened Paris office and a rapidly growing French market.
• Inclusive equal-opportunity workplace committed to diversity and high performance.