Legora

SaaS Enablement & Governance Lead

New York City. Posted 3 months ago

The role

The SaaS Enablement & Governance Lead will own the lifecycle of Legora's SaaS and AI portfolio. This includes managing software and AI asset management, tool governance, vendor relationships, and renewals. The role involves partnering with FP&A, Procurement, and Security to manage spend and risk.

What you will do

  • Own the single source of truth for every SaaS and AI application
  • Track utilization against entitlements and reclaim inactive licenses
  • Hunt down shadow IT and shadow AI
  • Manage usage- and token-based pricing and forecast AI spend
  • Own the commercial and governance substrate for AI tools
  • Enforce AI vendor terms in contracts and renewals
  • Build agentic workflows for the function
  • Own software and SaaS vendor relationships
  • Build and run a single front door for software and AI requests
  • Own the renewals calendar and partner with Procurement on negotiations

Required qualifications

  • 5+ years in software/SaaS asset management, IT vendor management, business systems, IT/enterprise applications, or IT procurement
  • Clear ownership of license and vendor work
  • Track record of license rightsizing, renewal negotiation, tool consolidation, and measurable savings
  • Comfortable owning negotiations and reading licensing models, including consumption/usage-based and AI pricing, true-ups, and contract terms
  • Has run SaaS discovery, utilization, and license management at scale
  • Builds with LLM/agent workflows, iPaaS, and scripts against SaaS APIs (e.g., Python)
  • Uses AI tools daily in their own work
  • SSO/SAML/OIDC and SCIM (Okta or Entra) knowledge
  • Has evaluated and governed AI tools and can read AI-vendor data terms
  • Builds utilization and forecast models
  • Partners credibly with Finance, Procurement, Security, and tool owners

Nice to have

  • Experience at a legal, financial, or otherwise regulated / high-trust company
  • Has stood up a FinOps practice
  • Exposure to procurement and finance systems (Zip, Coupa, NetSuite, Workday/Adaptive)
  • Built process and tooling from scratch at a fast-scaling company
  • ITIL certification
  • FinOps Certified Practitioner certification
  • ServiceNow CIS-SAM certification

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental & Vision
  • Multiple medical plan options through Aetna and Kaiser Permanente
  • HSA or Healthcare FSA
  • Dental plans via Met एग्जामपुर
  • Vision plans via Vision Care
  • Generous parental leave
  • Free access to Maven Clinic
  • Dependent Care FSA
  • Free One Medical membership for employees and dependents
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits
  • Life Insurance + STD/LTD
  • 401(K) with generous company match

About the company

Legora is an AI-native workspace company that redefines how legal work gets done. They serve over 2,100 customers across 80+ countries.

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