Lead, AI-Driven Legal Engineering (France)

legora; Paris; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Legora is building an AI-native workspace for legal work with lawyers. Our Legal Engineers are lawyers who help top firms turn AI into real change. France is a fast-growing market and we’ve opened our Paris office.

We seek a Team Lead to guide the Legal Engineering team for France’s law firms. This player-coach role combines team leadership with hands-on engagements, reporting to the Director of Legal Engineering, South EMEA.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in sophisticated law-firm practice, ideally at counsel or senior associate level.
• Proven people management experience: hiring, coaching, feedback and performance.
• Commercial acumen: understand how firms make money and tie work to outcomes.
• Credibility with senior lawyers: lead workshops and executive readouts.
• Fluency with generative AI: you test it, know its limits and explain why.
• Native or bilingual French and fluent English.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Legal Engineering team day to day: priorities, 1:1s, coaching, quality review, capacity and escalations.
• Hire, onboard and develop Legal Engineers, setting the standard of excellence for the team.
• Personally lead high-value engagements from discovery to firm-wide rollouts with partners and IT.
• Turn commercial priorities into execution with Go-To-Market and Engagement teams.
• Build relationships at partner and management level, design sponsor models inside firms.
• Create reusable methods: playbooks, templates, French-language content and training.
• Be the voice of French law firms inside Legora, feeding product feedback to the Product team.
• Represent Legora in the French legal market on AI and the future of legal practice.

Skills

Legal background

People management

Commercial acumen

Credibility with senior lawyers

Generative AI fluency

Bilingual French & English

Job description

Legora is building an AI-native workspace for legal work with lawyers. Our Legal Engineers are lawyers who help top firms turn AI into real change. France is a fast-growing market and we’ve opened our Paris office.

We seek a Team Lead to guide the Legal Engineering team for France’s law firms. This player-coach role combines team leadership with hands-on engagements, reporting to the Director of Legal Engineering, South EMEA.