People Business Partner

About Us Legora is redefining how legal work gets done. Not built for lawyers, built with them. We work alongside the world’s best legal teams, who expect excellence, precision, and speed, and we hold ourselves to the same bar. Our AI-native workspace lets legal professionals move faster, think more clearly, and operate with sharper precision. By analysing thousands of documents in minutes and powering end-to-end workflows, we cut through complexity, teams can focus on what matters: judgment, strategy, and outcomes. 1,000+ customers across 50+ countries trust us, including Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin, Linklaters, White & Case, Dentons, and Barclays. We’ve scaled to $100M+ in ARR , with teams across Europe, North America and APAC, and continue to expand through acquisitions including Qura, Walter AI and Graceview. We partner with world-class performers: including Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees, Ludvig Åberg (and his caddie), and campaigns featuring Jude Law. Joining Legora means three things. We lean in: ownership over titles, outcomes over intentions. We fight for excellence: high standards, direct, ego-free feedback. We grow together: as a team and with our customers. Mission before ego. Everyone contributes. No one coasts. If you’re driven by impact, pace, and raising the bar. This is the place.

The role As we scale across markets, complexity increases. Expectations rise, decisions carry more weight, and the margin for error narrows. With that comes responsibility - not only to move fast, but to move with discipline. As our People Business Partner, you will operate as a senior partner to leadership, safeguarding performance standards, accountability, and employment governance at Legora. You are not only the escalation point when situations become complex or high-risk: you step in early to ensure expectations are clear, decisions are consistent, and leadership accountability remains strong as we grow. We are intentionally separating Talent Acceleration from Risk & Governance to ensure scale does not compromise fairness or decision quality. While the People Enablement Partner drives hiring and team growth, you ensure that performance integrity, compliance, and governance maturity scale alongside it. In this role you will combine strong business judgment with legal precision. You will lead complex employee relations matters, advise on employment risk, shape performance and calibration standards, and strengthen the structural foundations that enable consistent and defensible decision-making. In moments of ambiguity or difficulty, you bring clarity, structure, and composure, guiding the business toward decisions that withstand scrutiny. What you will be doing Own complex employee relations matters end-to-end, including performance improvement processes, investigations, disciplinary actions, terminations, and sensitive absence cases, ensuring fair, consistent, and defensible outcomes. Partner with leaders on performance standards, calibration, and organizational decisions, safeguarding consistency, accountability, and documentation quality across teams. Advise and guide leadership through organizational changes, restructurings, and other structural shifts, ensuring legal compliance, risk mitigation, and disciplined execution. Intervene early in performance or conduct concerns, strengthening manager capability and ensuring issues are addressed before formal escalation becomes necessary. Advise on labour law and employment risk across jurisdictions, enabling commercially sound and compliant decision-making. Strengthen scalable governance by refining ER processes, documentation standards, and structural safeguards that support disciplined growth. As we grow, you will design and strengthen scalable ER and governance processes that allow us to operate at speed without compromising integrity. In close collaboration with the People Enablement Partner, you will ensure clean handovers across the employment lifecycle, alignment between performance frameworks and formal ER processes, and consistent documentation standards. You will proactively identify systemic risks and recurring themes, recommending structural improvements where clarity, consistency, or accountability can be strengthened.