Director Legal Engineer, Japan

The role

You will lead and develop Legora's Legal Engineering capability in Japan. You will hire and develop people, lead strategic customer engagements, and help legal teams implement AI workflows.

What you will do

• Define priorities, ways of working, and standards for customer delivery.
• Recruit, coach, and develop Legal Engineers.
• Create repeatable approaches to discovery, pilots, workflow design, training, and adoption.
• Work with global Legal Engineering leadership to exchange best practices.
• Build trusted relationships with partners, general counsel, and innovation leaders.
• Lead key engagements from understanding legal work to implementation and adoption.
• Help customers redesign legal workflows and assess AI output quality.
• Define success with customers and demonstrate measurable improvements.
• Partner with Sales and customer engagement teams to design pilots and support opportunities.
• Ensure customer insights inform product development.

Required qualifications

• Substantial experience in the legal sector, including law firm experience.
• Strong knowledge of legal practice, workflows, and client expectations.
• Experience delivering legal technology or AI transformation initiatives.
• Track record of leading people and complex initiatives.
• Ability to recruit, coach, and develop a high-performing team.
• Credibility to advise senior legal professionals.
• Skills to lead workshops, demonstrate a product, and work through detailed use cases.
• Strong commercial judgement.
• Ability to turn ambiguous problems into clear priorities and executable plans.
• Business-level English proficiency.
• Commitment to being based in Tokyo.

Nice to have

• A legal qualification

About the company

Legora is an AI-native workspace for legal professionals. The company has 2,100+ customers across 80+ countries and has scaled to $200M+ in ARR.