Director of Legal Engineering, Dubai

The role

You will establish the Legal Engineering function for the Middle East, anchored in Dubai. You will build the team, manager layer, and operating system to serve the region. You will also perform direct client work for approximately a quarter of your time.

What you will do

• Stand up the Legal Engineering function for the Middle East from the Dubai office
• Hire Legal Engineers and future leaders
• Build a manager layer of Team Leads
• Own career management for the hub
• Give direct, evidence-based feedback and coach the team
• Partner with regional commercial leadership on priority accounts and rollouts
• Act as the lead legal architect on selected enterprise engagements
• Hold the standard on complex, multi-stakeholder programmes
• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across the Gulf
• Represent the region inside Legora to provide product input

Required qualifications

• Substantial experience of sophisticated legal work in the Gulf
• A legal qualification
• Experience building a team, function, market or new operating model from a low base
• Experience managing and developing strong people, including managers or team leads
• Ability to learn the platform and challenge use-case design
• Understanding of the commercial realities of legal services and enterprise software
• Ability to communicate fluently in English
• Based in Dubai
• Able to work from the office five days per week
• Able to travel regularly across the UAE and the wider region

Nice to have

• Arabic capability
• Arabic is strongly preferred

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.