Talent Acquisition Manager, APAC

Legora; Sydney Township (ND); On-site; USD 98,000 - 148,000; Full time

Job summary

Legora’s Talent Acquisition function is expanding across APAC, with Sydney as a growing hub. You will lead and grow the regional TA delivery, reporting to the Senior Director, Talent Acquisition, and collaborating with People and business leaders to turn hiring plans into execution across Australia, North Asia and Southeast Asia.

You will build pipelines, strengthen direct sourcing, manage agency and RPO partnerships, and raise the bar on candidate experience and data-driven decisions.

Qualifications

• In-house talent acquisition track record in a growing SaaS/tech company (VC-backed preferred).
• Experience leading and developing TA partners while staying hands-on with delivery.
• Experience hiring across sales, technical, and corporate roles with consistent standards.
• Experience recruiting across APAC markets (Australia, North Asia, Southeast Asia); language skills beyond English a plus.
• Excellent sourcing and engagement skills; ability to win over passive candidates.
• Budget management and collaboration with local agencies and RPO partners.
• Ability to challenge hiring managers constructively and enable quick, well-informed decisions.
• Strong operational judgement; prioritise competing needs and turn problems into steps.
• Collaborative leadership with a genuine interest in helping others succeed.
• Flexibility to work across APAC time zones and willingness to travel occasionally.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the TA team with clear priorities and coaching.
• Deliver hiring with pace across functions and markets.
• Build a smarter recruiting engine with direct sourcing and stronger pipelines.
• Partner with the business to align hiring plans with workforce strategy.
• Raise the bar on interview quality and inclusive sourcing practices.

Skills

Talent acquisition

Leadership

APAC hiring

Budget management

Sourcing

Stakeholder mgmt

Collaboration

Time zone flexibility

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.

2,100+ customers across 80+ countries trust us, including Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin, Linklaters, White & Case, Dentons, and Barclays. We’ve scaled to $200M+ in ARR, with teams across Europe, North America and APAC, and continue to expand through acquisitions including Qura, Walter AI, Graceview, Cadastral, and Wexler.

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’s TA function is entering its next chapter. In APAC, that means a fast-growing Sydney team and a regional footprint that is expanding quickly, with more markets and offices to follow. We are hiring across every function at once: go-to-market, Legal Engineering, Engagement, Marketing, and the G&A roles that keep a new office running. Each market has its own language, culture, and talent pool, and we’re building them in parallel rather than one at a time.

Based in Sydney you will lead grow and build our regional and own hiring delivery across Asia Pacific. You will report to the Senior Director, Talent Acquisition, based in New York, and work closely with People and business leaders across the region. You will connect global TA priorities and standards with local market needs, turning approved hiring plans into effective regional execution.

What You’ll Do

Lead and grow the team. Set clear priorities, balance talent acquisition partner workloads against business needs, and coach your team on sourcing, closing, and stakeholder management. You’ll build a culture of ownership, candid feedback, and shared learning, and help shape recruiting capacity as the region grows.

Deliver hiring with pace. Turn approved hiring plans into clear priorities and milestones across functions and markets. You’ll personally run selected complex searches from intake to offer, keep pipelines moving, and hold talent acquisition partners and hiring managers to timely feedback and action.

Build a smarter recruiting engine. Strengthen direct sourcing, referrals, and talent pipelines, and use data to see where searches stall and which sources deliver. You’ll own our APAC agency and RPO partnerships, deciding when to use them and setting expectations for quality, fees, and candidate data access.

Partner with the business. Work with the Senior Director of TA, People, and regional leaders on workforce planning, and help hiring managers define realistic role outcomes and candidate profiles. You’ll bring market insight across Australia, North Asia, and Southeast Asia, and adapt global standards to local language and employment needs.

Raise the bar on quality. Equip interviewers to make evidence-based decisions, challenge unclear requirements and unnecessary process, and build inclusive sourcing practices. You’ll make sure every candidate gets clear, respectful communication, and use feedback from candidates, hiring managers, and new joiners to keep improving.

What You Bring

• A strong track record in in-house talent acquisition at a growing SaaS or tech company, ideally VC-backed.

• Experience leading and developing talent acquisition partners while staying hands-on with delivery.

• Experience hiring across sales, technical, and corporate roles, holding the same bar in each, including when a search gets hard: you change the approach, not the standard.

• Experience recruiting across multiple APAC markets (Australia, North Asia, Southeast Asia), and the ability to adapt to each. Language skills beyond English are a strong plus.

• Excellent sourcing and engagement skills, including winning over people who aren’t looking.

• A record of improving recruiting execution and using budgets wisely, including working with local agencies and RPO partners where they’re the right route to talent.

• The confidence to challenge hiring managers constructively and help them decide quickly and well.

• Sharp operational judgement: you can prioritise competing needs, diagnose a stalled search, and turn a problem into a clear next step.

• A collaborative style and a genuine interest in helping others succeed.

• Flexibility to work across APAC time zones, with occasional regional travel.

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.