Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, Engineering

Jackalope Digital LLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Legora is expanding its Talent Acquisition function and seeks a skilled Talent Partner to own end-to-end engineering hiring in the UK and Ireland. You will work closely with senior leaders to shape hiring strategy, build pipelines, and drive impact with data-informed processes.

You’ll partner with engineers and business leaders to define success profiles, maintain a high bar for talent, and deliver a remarkable candidate experience while operating in a fast‑growing, global environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in talent acquisition in high-growth environments with a focus on engineering hiring.
• Proven track record hiring high-performing engineers across seniority levels.
• Ability to discuss technical roles with engineering leaders and set high hiring bars.
• Experience partnering with senior stakeholders on hiring strategy and team build-out.
• Ability to run multiple complex searches without sacrificing quality or pace.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward action in fast-moving growth settings.
• Collaborative yet direct, able to influence decisions at senior levels.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruitment across UK & I, partnering with hiring managers to define role scope and success profiles.
• Shape Talent operating models, contribute to processes, tooling, and broader People initiatives.
• Build proactive pipelines for critical future hires and stay ahead of demand.
• Run structured, data-informed hiring processes balancing quality, pace, and consistency.
• Deliver an exceptional candidate experience from first contact through to offer.

Skills

Talent acquisition

Engineering hiring

Stakeholder management

Data-driven interviewing

End-to-end recruitment

Job description

About Us

Legora is redefining how legal work gets done. Not built for lawyers, built with them. We work alongside the world’s best legal teams, who expect excellence, precision, and speed, and we hold ourselves to the same bar.
Our AI-native workspace lets legal professionals move faster, think more clearly, and operate with sharper precision. By analysing thousands of documents in minutes and powering end-to-end workflows, we cut through complexity, teams can focus on what matters: judgment, strategy, and outcomes.
1,000+ customers across 50+ countries trust us, including Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin, Linklaters, White & Case, Dentons, and Barclays. We’ve scaled to $100M+ in ARR, with teams across Europe, North America and APAC, and continue to expand through acquisitions including Qura, Walter AI and Graceview.
We partner with world-class performers: including Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees, Ludvig Åberg (and his caddie), and campaigns featuring Jude Law.
Joining Legora means three things.

• We lean in: ownership over titles, outcomes over intentions.

• We fight for excellence: high standards, direct, ego-free feedback.

• We grow together: as a team and with our customers.

Mission before ego. Everyone contributes. No one coasts.

If you’re driven by impact, pace, and raising the bar. This is the place.

The Role

Legora has grown from 40 to more than 900 people in 18 months. During that time, we reached $100M ARR, tripled our valuation in five months, and continued expanding into new markets around the world.

Our Talent Acquisition function is now entering its next chapter. The processes, standards, and hiring approach that support our next phase of growth are being built today, which you’ll play a significant part in. You'll work closely with senior leaders from day one and play a key role in shaping how Legora hires and scales.

What you’ll do

Product velocity depends on having the right engineering and technical talent in place, fast, and at a high bar. As a Talent Partner, you will own that directly. You are not a support function for the Engineering team. You bring genuine craft to how technical hiring gets done, and you're accountable for the quality and pace of the people who build Legora's product.

You will own end-to-end hiring across engineering in UK&I, working closely with senior leaders who are genuinely invested in recruiting, trusted to make high-impact decisions on hiring and team composition. Specifically, you will:

• Own full-cycle recruitment across UK&I, partnering closely with hiring managers to define role scope, success profiles, and hiring strategies aligned to business priorities.

• Help shape how Talent operates at Legora, contributing beyond hiring to process design, programs, tooling, and broader People initiatives.

• Build and nurture proactive talent pipelines for critical and future hiring needs, ensuring we stay ahead of demand rather than reacting to it.

• Run structured, data-informed hiring processes that balance quality, pace, and consistency while maintaining a high bar for talent.

• Deliver an exceptional candidate experience from first conversation through to offer, acting as a trusted and credible ambassador for Legora throughout.

What you bring

You understand that hiring decisions are business decisions, and you hold yourself accountable to the same outcomes as the teams you hire for. You're hands-on, sharp, and trusted by senior leaders to shape teams that win. We're looking for:

• 5+ years in talent acquisition in a high-growth environment, startup, scaleup, or VC-backed company, with meaningful depth hiring engineering talent.

• A proven track record hiring high-performing engineering talent across the seniority levels that matter most at this stage of growth.

• The ability to hold a credible conversation with an engineering leader about what strong looks like. You understand the difference between a good CV and a good hire in technical roles, and you don't lower the bar when searches get hard.

• Experience partnering with senior stakeholders on hiring strategy and team build-out, not just executing briefs, but shaping them.

• The ability to run multiple complex searches without losing quality or pace.

• Comfortable in ambiguity with a bias toward action. You build a structure where none exists and move without waiting for perfect conditions.

• Collaborative but direct. You influence and challenge senior stakeholders when needed, and you drive decisions rather than defer them.

Legora is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Legora, we believe great teams are built on diversity of thought and experience. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive, high-performance culture where everyone can do their best work. We welcome people of all backgrounds and don’t discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.