Head of Corporate Legal
Legora · New York City, New York
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
We're hiring a Head of Corporate Legal to build and lead Legora's corporate, securities, governance and M&A function as we prepare to operate as a public company. You will build the team and do the work on the Legora aOS, shaping the product along the way.
At Legora’s pace of growth, new entities, acquisitions, financings and Board work land in the same quarter, and public-company discipline has to arrive early, without slowing the company down.
The right candidate will have taken a company public from the inside and then run the corporate function through the quarters that followed. You know where that work most needs a lawyer's judgment, and you are excited about how much technology can now help with the rest.
Reporting to the General Counsel, you will work closely with the entire C-Suite and Board of Directors, as well as the Finance team, Corporate Development, Product and People teams.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
1. Build the Corporate Legal Team of the Future on Legora
Legora Legal is customer zero. You will run our corporate function on the Legora aOS, and help shape it into the platform of choice that the best corporate legal teams run on.
- Run the full corporate calendar and on Legora. Start with the rhythm every company keeps: entity formation, Board and committee meetings, approvals and equity grants. Then mature it into the rhythm a public company requires: quaterly earnings cycle preparation, disclosures, public filings and trading windows. Each cycle should teach the system more of our context, judgment and risk tolerance as a company.
- Work side by side with Product and Legal Engineering to turn what we learn into product, so that Legora can be trusted to do the most demanding corporate and public-company work.
- Design the team with a clear view of how legal professionals and technology work together to move legal professionals up the value chain.
- Document the results and publish the playbook, so customers can see how a corporate function against a public-company standard runs on Legora.
2. Build Public-Company Reporting
Bring Legora's reporting and disclosure to the standard the public markets expect.
- Lead the corporate, governance and securities work of public-company readiness.
- Partner with Finance to build the reporting function to public-market maturity, including disclosure controls, disclosure committee, and periodic reporting, proxy and earnings processes, all leveraging Legora.
- Design insider trading, Section 16 and Rule 10b5-1 programs, and the employee equity education that goes with them.
- Work with Finance, Investor Relations and Communications so that what Legora says publicly is accurate and consistent.
3. Uplevel Board Interactions
Ensure sound governance and effective Board operations.
- Own Board and committee operations, including meeting cadence, materials, minutes and the flow of information between management and directors, all built leveraging Legora.
- Advise on director independence, committee charters, governance policies, and the annual meeting and proxy season.
- Be a trusted counselor to directors and executives.
4. Lead M&A and Global Expansion
Legora grows by acquiring companies and entering new markets, and you keep Legal ahead of both.
- Partner with Corporate Development on acquisitions from term sheet through integration, structuring and negotiating for speed, risk and long-term value.
- Stand up and govern entities as Legora enters new markets, working with Finance, Tax and People so that a launch never waits on Legal.
- Support financings, tender offers and the equity program alongside Finance.
- Build playbooks and run them on Legora, making each deal more efficient than the last.
WHAT YOU BRING
Three things matter most.
1. You have a point of view on the in-house legal team of the future, and you have started building it. You reach for systems as often as people. You can describe how a corporate legal team should be structured when technology sits at the center of how it works, what talent it needs, and what belongs with outside counsel. You use AI in your own work every day, and you want to shape the product as well as use it.
2. You have taken a company public and run what came after. You were in-house, in a lead corporate or securities role, through an IPO. You then operated and scaled the function as a public company: periodic reporting, earnings, the proxy, Section 16, and Board and committee management.
3. You are at ease with very fast scaling. New countries and entities, acquisitions and financings in parallel, a company that doubles while you are building. You keep the quality high and you do not become the bottleneck.
You also bring:
- 9+ years of corporate and securities experience across a top law firm and a public technology company.
- Experience leading M&A from term sheet through integration, and managing global entity structures.
- A record of close collaboration with Finance. The finance leaders you have worked with would describe you as part of their team.
- The presence to advise directors and executives, and the plain speech to make complex requirements usable.
- A JD and active bar membership.
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.