legora - Legal Engineer, Strategic Programs Manager

• 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 (e.g., 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 → one → scaled rollout, with clear ownership throughout • 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