Legal Engineer, Strategic Programs Manager London

What You'll Be Doing

This is a high-impact role at Legora, designed to own and scale strategic Legal Engineering programs across the UK. You will operate at the intersection of strategy, client delivery, and operational excellence, ensuring our most critical initiatives translate into measurable outcomes for both clients and the business.

You will partner closely with the Director of Strategic Programs, Legal Engineering leadership, and client stakeholders to drive end to end execution of complex AI deployments, while continuously improving how we deliver.

This role is not about coordination - it is about ownership, decision making, and driving results in ambiguous, fast moving environments.

Own strategic program delivery

• Lead the end to end execution of high priority Legal Engineering initiatives across the UK market.
• Translate ambiguous strategic goals into structured, executable program plans with clear milestones, owners, and success metrics.
• Act as the single point of accountability for program progress, risks, and outcomes.

Drive client facing implementations

• Partner with Legal Engineers and Engagement Managers to design and lead deployment strategies for complex client implementations.
• Own workplanning, sequencing, and resourcing decisions across multiple concurrent programs.
• Proactively identify delivery risks and intervene early to unblock execution.

Scale delivery systems and best practices

• Build and continuously improve repeatable frameworks, playbooks, and operating cadences for Legal Engineering delivery.
• Ensure consistency and quality across local and cross border implementations.
• Act as a force multiplier by raising the execution bar across the team.

Lead adoption and impact tracking

• Own adoption strategy across programs, using data to diagnose friction and drive targeted interventions.
• Define and track clear success metrics such as usage, retention, workflow integration, ROI.
• Partner with client stakeholders to ensure implementations translate into tangible behavior change and business impact.

Operate as a cross functional leader

• Act as the connective layer across Legal Engineering, Product, and Go To Market teams.
• Drive alignment, prioritisation, and decision making across stakeholders.
• Influence senior internal and client stakeholders with clear, structured communication.

Establish operational excellence at scale

• Own program governance: reporting, tracking, and communication rhythms.
• Build a high fidelity source of truth across all active programs.
• Introduce rigor in how we plan, execute, and learn from deployments.
• Build out POV packs, knowledge artefacts, templates and checklists for the broader function.

Build and scale new initiatives

• Identify opportunities to launch and scale new strategic initiatives within Legal Engineering.
• Take ideas from zero to one to scaled rollout, with clear ownership throughout.

What You Bring

You are an experienced operator who combines structured thinking with a bias for execution. You are comfortable owning outcomes in ambiguous environments and influencing stakeholders without formal authority.

You'll thrive in this role if you:

• Have 4-7 years of experience in management consulting, strategy, or implementation focused roles.
• Have led complex, multi stakeholder programs end to end, not just supported them.
• Bring experience from professional services (Legal, Big 4, Consulting) or similarly high performance environments.
• Demonstrate strong program management and execution discipline across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Are highly analytical and can translate data into strategic decisions and interventions.
• Communicate with clarity and authority, including with senior stakeholders (internal and client side).
• Show clear evidence of ownership and accountability for outcomes, not just deliverables.
• Are comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and navigating ambiguity.

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.