Head of Executive Recruiting

About the role

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. Legora's TA function is entering its next chapter. As the business scales toward 1,500 people across the US, Europe, and APAC, the volume and complexity of senior hiring is growing with it. The searches that define how the organisation is built, Senior Director and above across every function, need a dedicated owner. Based in New York, you'll build and lead Legora's executive recruiting function from the ground up, working directly with the CEO, CFO, CRO, and CTO on the searches that matter most. You'll report into the VP of Talent and hire and develop a small team as the function scales. There's no existing team or playbook to inherit. You'll define how executive hiring gets done at one of the fastest-growing companies in the AI space.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a small, high-performing team, hiring into the function as volume grows and setting the standard for how the team operates.
• Partner with external executive search firms on the most senior leadership hires, managing those relationships and ensuring the quality and cultural alignment of every process, whether run internally or externally.
• Build the infrastructure for executive recruiting at Legora: the processes, scorecards, assessment frameworks, and candidate experience that make senior hiring repeatable and scalable as the company grows across the US, Europe, and APAC.
• Own relationships with the investor talent community across Legora's VC partners, leveraging those networks to surface senior talent and stay close to the best leaders in the market.
• Develop a strong external network across functions and geographies, building relationships with senior talent before there's an open role, not after.
• Work closely with the broader TA team to raise the standard on senior hiring across the function, sharing best practices, supporting the team on complex searches, and helping recruiters develop the skills and confidence to operate at higher levels.
• Partner with reward, legal, and people operations to ensure offer processes for senior hires are handled with the speed, discretion, and attention to detail that candidates at this level expect.
• What You Bring
• You've built executive recruiting functions before, in-house, at a search firm, or both. You know what it takes to identify, engage, and close senior leaders who aren't actively looking, and you've built the kind of trust with executives that makes this function work when it matters most.
• We're looking for:
• The business acumen to hold credible conversations with the most senior leaders in the company. You understand how functions are built, what strong leadership looks like across different disciplines, and how to assess it.
• Experience managing and developing a small recruiting team. You've hired, coached, and held people accountable, and you know how to build a function rather than just run a desk.
• Existing relationships within the investor talent community, or a clear track record of building and maintaining them. You understand how to work with VC networks to s

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