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Legora is an AI-native legal workspace trusted by 2,100+ customers across 80+ countries, including major law firms like Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin, and Linklaters. The company has scaled to $200M+ ARR and operates globally across Europe, North America, and APAC.
You will join at a pivotal moment to build and run the HR platform powering Legora's global People operations. This is a hands-on role for someone with proven enterprise HRIS expertise who understands what it takes to make a platform work in practice at scale.
Key responsibilities:
- Own platform design and build in partnership with external vendors, challenging design decisions and ensuring long-term viability
- Lead defined workstreams of the HRIS implementation from requirements through release, managing discovery, documentation, planning, risks and dependencies
- Configure, maintain and optimize the HRIS platform including business processes, organizational structures, security, approvals and employee lifecycle transactions
- Conduct requirements-gathering workshops with People, Finance, IT and business stakeholders to understand current processes and future needs at scale
- Translate People requirements into effective system configurations and workflows, simplifying and standardizing processes across the global footprint
- Support data mapping, validation and reconciliation; establish system controls and quality checks to maintain data integrity
- Own functional testing for system changes, coordinate user acceptance testing and manage releases safely
- Troubleshoot issues, investigate root causes, support users and identify optimization opportunities to increase self-service adoption
You'll work in Legora's Union Square office (in-person environment with company-provided lunch) and collaborate with teams across Europe, APAC and North America.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 4+ years of hands-on experience with enterprise HRIS platforms, including support, configuration, testing, data work and releases
- Experience gathering and documenting requirements for HR system changes and translating them into configuration and test plans
- Strong Core HCM knowledge: business processes, organizational structures, security and reporting
- Deep understanding of employee lifecycle processes and how they operate across global organizations
- Proven ability to translate HR requirements into system configurations and workflows
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with high standards for data accuracy, system reliability and documentation
- Ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, explaining complex concepts clearly
- Track record of owning a workstream within a larger project or change program
- Proactive, hands-on mindset; comfortable with details, challenging assumptions and owning problems through resolution
- Nice to have: experience with HRIS integrations (payroll, ATS, IT provisioning, finance) including requirements definition, data mapping, testing or troubleshooting
- Fluency in English (working language)
