Team Lead, Legal AI Engineering (France)

Legora; Paris (KY); On-site; USD 134,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

Legora, a fast-growing AI-native workspace for legal work, is hiring a Team Lead for its France Legal Engineering team. You will lead and develop a team of Legal Engineers while personally running our most strategic law-firm engagements in France.

You will report to the Director of Legal Engineering, South EMEA, and drive discovery, pilots, and rollouts with managing partners and IT teams. Strong French and English required, 8+ years in top firms preferred.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in sophisticated law-firm practice, ideally at counsel or senior associate level.
• Proven ability to hire, coach and manage performance.
• Understanding of how law firms make money and buy services.
• Ability to run workshops with partners and lead executive readouts.
• Fluency with generative AI and ability to explain limitations.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day team activities including priorities, 1:1s, coaching, quality reviews, capacity planning.
• Hire, onboard and develop Legal Engineers to uphold excellence.
• Lead high-value engagements from discovery to firm-wide rollouts with senior stakeholders.
• Translate commercial priorities into execution with GTM and Engagement teams.
• Build sponsor models, relationships at partner level, and champion programs inside firms.
• Create reusable methods: playbooks, templates, French-language content and training.
• Represent Legora in the French legal market and provide product feedback to the product team.
• Be the voice of French law firms inside Legora.

Skills

People management

Commercial acumen

Credibility with senior lawyers

Generative AI fluency

Bilingual French & English

Job description

Legora, a fast-growing AI-native workspace for legal work, is hiring a Team Lead for its France Legal Engineering team. You will lead and develop a team of Legal Engineers while personally running our most strategic law-firm engagements in France.

You will report to the Director of Legal Engineering, South EMEA, and drive discovery, pilots, and rollouts with managing partners and IT teams. Strong French and English required, 8+ years in top firms preferred.