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Legora is an AI-native legal workspace company serving 2,100+ customers across 80+ countries, including major law firms and enterprises like Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin, Linklaters, and Barclays. The company has scaled to $200M+ ARR and operates teams across Europe, North America, and APAC.
As People Partner for EMEA, you will be the trusted HR business partner for the Customer Engagement, Global Services, and Legal Engineering teams across Europe, Middle East, and Africa. You will work closely with leaders and managers to anticipate people needs, drive organizational health, and ensure that hiring standards, performance culture, and accountability remain strong as the company scales rapidly.
Key responsibilities include:
- Developing and executing people strategy aligned with business priorities for your client teams
- Advising on organizational design, team structure, and workforce planning in collaboration with Talent Acquisition
- Designing and overseeing onboarding to ensure new hires integrate quickly and clearly
- Coaching managers on expectation-setting, feedback delivery, and leading through change
- Applying performance frameworks consistently, driving calibration, and addressing underperformance
- Managing compensation and levelling frameworks fairly across EMEA markets
- Monitoring culture and engagement, identifying shifts early before they become systemic issues
- Handling employee relations matters, investigations, and organizational changes with knowledge of employment law across EMEA
- Collaborating with the global People team to translate local needs into impactful global initiatives
You will operate in a hyper-growth environment where the people function is both the highest risk and highest leverage point. The role requires balancing speed with rigor, maintaining standards under pressure, and being a genuine strategic partner to leaders.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Several years of experience as an HR Business Partner, ideally in fast-growing or international environments, supporting leaders and managers across the full employee lifecycle
- Experience supporting teams across multiple European countries, with judgment about when to apply standard approaches versus local adaptation
- Ability to build credibility quickly with leaders and challenge constructively when needed
- Strong coaching capability with managers on expectation-setting, feedback, and change leadership
- Demonstrated ability to move quickly while maintaining high documentation and process standards
- Commercial mindset: making people decisions that serve business outcomes, not just activity
- Strong collaboration skills across the People function, with ability to escalate complex cases appropriately
