Team Lead Legal Engineering, Law-Firms - Paris

<h2>About Us</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />2,100+ customers across 80+ countries trust us, including Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin, Linklaters, White &amp; Case, Dentons, and Barclays. We’ve scaled to<strong> $200M+ in ARR</strong>, with teams across Europe, North America and APAC, and continue to expand through acquisitions including Qura, Walter AI, Graceview, Cadastral, and Wexler.<br /><br />We partner with world-class performers: including Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees, Ludvig Åberg (and his caddie), and campaigns featuring Jude Law.<br /><br />Joining Legora means three things.</p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">We <strong>lean in: </strong>ownership over titles, outcomes over intentions.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">We <strong>fight for excellence:</strong> high standards, direct, ego-free feedback.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">We<strong> grow together:</strong> as a team and with our customers.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em">Mission before ego. Everyone contributes. No one coasts.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">If you’re driven by impact, pace, and raising the bar. This is the place.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>About the role</strong><br />Legora is building the AI-native workspace for legal work, with lawyers. Our Legal Engineers are lawyers who help the world's leading firms turn AI into real change in how they practise. France is one of our fastest-growing markets, and we have just opened our Paris office.<br />We are looking for a Team Lead to lead our Legal Engineering team for law firms in France. This is a player-coach role: you will lead and develop a team of Legal Engineers while personally running our most strategic firm engagements. You will report to the Director of Legal Engineering, South EMEA.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>What you'll be doing</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Leading the team day to day: priorities, 1:1s, coaching, quality review, capacity and escalations.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Hiring, onboarding and developing Legal Engineers, and setting the standard of excellence for the team.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Personally leading high-value engagements, from discovery and pilots to firm-wide rollouts, with managing partners, practice heads, innovation and IT teams.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Turning commercial priorities into execution with our Go-To-Market and Engagement teams: pilots that convert, rollouts that stick, renewals and expansions.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Building relationships at partner and management level, and designing sponsor and champion models inside firms.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Turning what works into reusable methods: playbooks, templates, French-language content and