Head of Legal Engineering, Spain

About the company

Legora is a Swedish legal AI startup that uses large language models to help lawyers and legal teams streamline work and deliver legal services more efficiently.

About this role

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. ABOUT THE ROLE Let's get the tricky part out of the way. Legal Engineering does not fit neatly into a traditional box. It combines legal practice, product fluency, enterprise change, commercial judgement and client leadership. As Head of Legal Engineering, Spain, your mission is to establish Legal Engineering as the commercial and delivery engine for Spain and Portugal, anchored in Madrid. You will set the craft bar, build the team and its Team Lead layer, partner closely with Go-to-Market and Engagement, lead selectively on the highest-stakes clients, and turn local learning into playbooks that scale across both markets. This is a Director-level leadership role. Your primary output will be the quality and performance of the team and system you build. You will stay close enough to the product and the work to coach credibly, while moving your own time toward hiring, leadership development, senior relationships, market strategy and cross-functional execution. You will have the autonomy to shape how Legal Engineering lands in a strategically important market, together with the responsibility to keep that local model connected to Legora's global standards. WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING Some of what you will be up to: - Stand up the Legal Engineering function for Spain and Portugal from the Madrid office, operating rhythm, quality bar, capacity model and local partnership with Go-to-Market and Engagement. - Hire exceptional Legal Engineers and future leaders. Own the quality bar from sourcing and interview calibration through closing, onboarding and ramp. - Build a manager layer of Team Leads who each own and develop a group of Legal Engineers. Delegate real decision rights and create clear succession paths so the function becomes stronger and less dependent on you over time. - Give direct, evidence-based feedback. Coach hard, set clear expectations and act decisively when the performance or values bar is not met. - Partner with local commercial leadership on priority accounts, pilots, rollouts and escalations. Connect Legal Engineering activity to conversion, adoption, usage, expansion and revenue. - Act as the lead legal architect on selected enterprise engagements. Translate a real legal problem into a concrete Legora workflow, then turn successful delivery into a reusable playbook others can run. - Oversee complex, multi-stakeholder programmes with clear governance, owners, outcomes, leading indicators and risk management. - Build trusted relationships with Managing Partners, General Counsels, Heads of Innovation, Legal Operations leaders and other senior stakeholders. - Represent the market's voice inside Legora. Translate recurring client patterns and product gaps into clear, actionable input for Product. - Shape Legora's point of view on AI and legal work in Spain. Contribute through executive client forums, events, writing and practical market insight grounded in first-hand work. - Create clean handoffs across Go-to-Market, Legal Engineering and Engagement so that commercial momentum, delivery quality and long-term adoption reinforce one another. WHAT GOOD LOOKS LIKE At Director level, strong performance looks like this: - Product knowledge and application. Move quickly from complex legal problems to credible Legora workflows. Set the quality bar, coach others to meet it and turn the strongest work into reusable offers, templates and playbooks. - Communication. Translate legal and technical complexity into business outcomes. Build trust with senior leaders, write clearly and help the team develop the same executive presence. - Project and programme management. Lead complex rollouts with clear outcomes, owners, dependencies, metrics and governance. Adjust when reality changes and codify what the organisation should reuse. - Stakeholder management. Understand the incentives beneath competing positions, resolve high-stakes escalations and coach Legal Engineers to own senior relationships rather than holding them all yourself. - Thought leadership. Develop a credible point of view on how AI will change legal work, grounded in first-hand experience. Shape the local market conversation and turn field insight into useful product and company direction. HOW YOU LEAD Strong leadership in this role looks like this: - Hiring judgment and partnership. You treat hiring as company-building work. You own open seats end to end, partner closely with Talent and keep the bar high when growth pressure rises. - Talent development and accountability. Your team knows where they stand. Feedback is early, written and specific. You create stretch, develo