Executive Recruiter

Legora; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision

HSA/Healthcare FSA

Dental plans

Vision plans

Parental leave

Maven Clinic access

Dependent Care FSA

One Medical membership

Pre-tax commuter benefits

Life Insurance + STD/LTD

401(K) with company match

Unlimited PTO

Identity protection & legal coverage

Job summary

Legora is seeking an accomplished Head of Executive Recruiting to own Director-level hires across functions, based in New York. You will lead end-to-end executive searches, collaborate with top external search firms, and build robust assessment frameworks and candidate experiences to scale senior hiring globally.

You will shape hiring strategy, develop a strong external network, and partner with reward, legal, and people operations to move offers quickly and discreetly for high-impact roles.

Qualifications

• Experience leading executive search for Director-level roles or higher.
• Ability to engage senior leaders and manage confidential processes.
• Proven track record building relationships with investors and external search firms.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end executive search for Director-level and above roles globally.
• Partner with external executive search firms on select hires and ensure consistent standards.
• Create scorecards, assessment frameworks, and candidate experience for senior hiring at scale.
• Develop and maintain relationships with investor talent communities and senior leaders.
• Build proactive networks across functions and geographies to surface talent before openings.

Skills

Executive recruiting

Stakeholder management

Senior leadership outreach

Relationship building

Confidentiality

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 900 people in 18 months, and there are more than 40 open executive searches running right now. The roles that define how the organisation is built, Director and above, need a dedicated owner.

Based in New York, you'll join the Head of Executive Recruiting to shape how Legora hires its leaders, owning Director-level hiring across every function while getting close exposure to the most senior searches in the company.

You're not inheriting a process or playbook for leadership hiring. You're building one.

What You’ll Do

Own end-to-end executive search for Director-level and above roles across Legora's functions globally, running processes that are rigorous and hold a high talent bar.

Partner with external executive search firms on select senior hires, making sure they hire to the same standards whether the process runs internally or externally.

Put in place the scorecards, assessment frameworks, and candidate experience that make senior hiring work at scale, from the ground up.

Build relationships across the investor talent community, surfacing senior talent and staying close to the best leaders in the market.

Develop a strong external network across your functions and geographies, forming relationships with senior talent before there's an open role, not after.

Raise the standard on senior hiring across the broader TA team, sharing what you learn and supporting recruiters on complex searches.

Partner with reward, legal, and people operations so offer processes for your hires move with the speed and discretion candidates at this level expect.

What You Bring

You've built a track record in executive recruiting in-house at a high-growth, VC-backed tech company, hiring at Director level and understanding why that process needs to feel different: how you engage candidates, how you manage stakeholders through something confidential.

You can hold a credible conversation with senior leaders about how their function should be built and what strong leadership looks like in it.

You've either got relationships in the investor talent community already or a track record of building them fast, and you know how to brief and manage external search firms rather than just hand a role over.

Trust is your currency. You establish credibility quickly with people you've just met, you handle confidential information properly, and you're honest with candidates even when the answer isn't the one they want.

What’s In It For You

• Global collaboration: Partner with teams and clients across Europe, APAC, and North America.

• Competitive package: Comprehensive salary, benefits, and tools for success.

• Meaningful work: Your efforts shape how thousands of lawyers use AI daily.

• In-person environment: Union Square office designed for ambitious builders and company provided lunch daily.

• Benefits & Perks: We invest in our people with a comprehensive, thoughtfully designed benefits package: Medical, Dental & Vision

  • Multiple medical plan options through Aetna and Kaiser Permanente

  • HSA or Healthcare FSA (based on plan selection)

  • Dental plans via MetLife

  • Vision plans via Vision Care

  Family Support

  • Generous parental leave

  • Free access to Maven Clinic

  • Dependent Care FSA

  • Free One Medical membership for employees and dependents

  Additional Perks

  • Pre-tax commuter benefits

  • Life Insurance + STD/LTD

  • 401(K) with generous company match

  • Unlimited PTO

  • Robust voluntary benefits, including identity protection (via Aura), legal coverage via MetLife, pet savings programs, and more

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.