Senior Manager, People Advisors (AI)

Location: London, United Kingdom; onsite

Company

Legora provides an AI-native workspace for legal professionals, supporting end-to-end legal workflows for more than 2,100 customers across 80+ countries.

What you will do

• Establish Legora’s first local People Advisory layer, define market coverage, and build the team from the ground up.
• Lead hiring, onboarding, coaching, and capability development for a distributed team of People Advisors.
• Oversee probation, performance, and absence casework, ensuring accurate documentation and escalation of formal, contested, or legally sensitive matters.
• Equip managers and Advisors with practical guidance, AI-supported resources, local policies, playbooks, and self-service workflows.
• Partner with Employee Relations & Compliance, People Business Partners, People Operations, People Tech & Data, People Programs, and Market Expansion.
• Use case reviews, service data, feedback, and AI/process improvement metrics to improve advice quality, response times, and manager experience.

Requirements

• 7+ years in HR generalist, People Advisory, or operational HR roles, including team leadership across markets in a growing international company.
• Strong experience coaching and advising managers, constructively challenging decisions, and overseeing probation, performance, and absence cases.
• Clear judgment about when specialist support is required, including in formal, contested, or legally sensitive cases.
• Knowledge of employment practices across multiple jurisdictions and the ability to work effectively with local experts.
• Experience building local HR capability and closing policy and process gaps with practical, usable guidance.
• Practical experience applying AI to advisory work, knowledge management, or case administration, including testing outputs, driving adoption, and demonstrating improvements.
• Comfort working in a tiered People model with defined boundaries between operations, local advisory, People Business Partners, and specialist teams.
• Hands-on leadership style, strong stakeholder relationships, and a high standard for documentation, confidentiality, and advice quality.
• Fluency in English is required; English is the working language.

Culture & Benefits

• Ownership, direct feedback, high standards, and a mission-before-ego approach.
• Inclusive, high-performance culture and equal-opportunity employment.
• Opportunity to shape a new People Advisory capability and establish how local people support scales globally.