Legal Engineer - Knowledge Management (AI)

Location: New York City, United States; onsite

Salary: $165K–$224K annually, plus equity and bonus.

Company

Legora provides an AI-native collaborative workspace for legal professionals, supporting contract review, research, drafting, and end-to-end legal workflows.

What you will do

• Define the enablement vision, roadmap, and success metrics for the North American Legal Engineering team across onboarding, ramp, and ongoing development.
• Diagnose gaps in product knowledge, legal workflow fluency, and customer-facing skills, prioritizing programs against ramp time, adoption, workflow quality, and deal support.
• Build and govern a searchable knowledge library of playbooks, workflow templates, use-case guides, discovery and demo frameworks, and customer-ready examples.
• Capture, curate, maintain, and retire expertise from top performers and customer engagements, with taxonomy and ownership by practice area, customer segment, and sales stage.
• Design onboarding, certification, coaching, peer-learning, and practice-group programs covering product mastery, legal workflows, discovery, solution design, and executive presentations.
• Support product launches and new use cases, embedding Claude skills and AI-native workflows into customer preparation and follow-up.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a law firm or legal organization, focused on knowledge management, law-firm learning and development, practice innovation, or legal technology, including experience as a KM manager, L&D manager, or equivalent.
• Deep understanding of how lawyers work, learn, and adopt technology, including experience running training and adoption efforts for attorneys.
• Strong systems thinking and the ability to turn scattered know-how into structured, searchable, maintained resources that people use.
• Exceptional communication skills and the presence to partner with senior leaders while holding programs accountable to outcomes.
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving, high-growth technology company.

Nice to have

• Experience implementing or evaluating legal AI, document automation, or other legal technology inside a law firm.
• Experience building playbooks, precedent banks, or know-how programs that measurably changed how lawyers worked.
• Technical onboarding, certification, customer-facing implementation, or solutions experience.
• Experience supporting multiple practice groups, offices, or geographies.

Culture & Benefits

• In-person NYC office environment with substantial autonomy, responsibility, and scope to shape the function.
• Collaboration with domestic and international teams and clients.
• Medical, dental, and vision plans; HSA or Healthcare FSA; parental leave; and dependent-care support.
• One Medical membership, commuter benefits, life insurance, short- and long-term disability coverage, and a 401(k) with company match.
• Unlimited PTO and additional voluntary benefits, including identity protection, legal coverage, and pet savings programs.