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
Are qualified to practise law in Spain and have substantial legal, legal-operations or legal-technology experience, with a strong understanding of how sophisticated law firms and in-house legal teams make decisions
Have built a team, function, market or new operating model from a low base, with clear evidence of what you personally decided and what continued to work without you
Have managed and developed strong people, ideally including managers or Team Leads, and can point to people whose careers accelerated under your leadership
Are deeply curious about generative AI and product. You do not need to be a software engineer, but you must be able to learn the platform, challenge use-case design and coach credible client work
Can hold your own with a Managing Partner, General Counsel or executive team while remaining practical with the people doing the work
Understand the commercial realities of legal services and enterprise software. You can connect Legal Engineering to pipeline, client value, adoption, usage and revenue
Bring structure to ambiguity without creating process for its own sake. You build operating systems that improve speed and quality
Have strong hiring and performance judgment. You can attract high-calibre people, develop them directly and protect the standard when a seat is not working
Communicate fluently in Spanish and English, in writing and in person
Are based in Madrid and able to work from the office five days per week, with travel across Spain and Portugal for strategic clients, market development and team leadership
A FEW MORE THINGS
Legora is growing quickly, and Spain and Portugal are a build. You will not inherit a finished local system. You will have real autonomy, material responsibility and the chance to define what excellent Legal Engineering looks like across both markets from Madrid
The right person will enjoy the combination: building a team, staying close to the product, shaping senior client outcomes and creating a model that can scale beyond one office
If that sounds exciting rather than terrifying, we would like to hear from you