Legora – Senior People Partner

Official Role Description: Legora

About UsLegora 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 roleLegora is scaling rapidly across markets, teams, and complexity. As the business grows, the demands on leadership, organizational design, performance, and culture grow alongside it. At this stage, building a strong and scalable people agenda becomes one of the company’s highest priorities and a critical enabler for sustainable growth.As our Senior People Partner, you will act as the strategic owner of the people agenda for your business area. This is not a traditional HR support role. You will operate as a true thought partner and co-pilot to senior leadership, helping shape the organization as it scales while ensuring strong performance, accountability, and organizational health. You will work closely with senior leaders and C-level stakeholders, building a deep understanding of the business, its ambitions, risks, and capability gaps, while proactively identifying organizational challenges before they become systemic.In this role, you sit at the intersection of business strategy and People execution. You will partner closely with Legora’s global Centers of Excellence — including Talent Acquisition, Compensation & Benefits, People Programs, and People Data & Tech — ensuring that global frameworks translate into real impact within your client group. This role requires someone who can combine strategic clarity with operational depth and move comfortably between high-level organizational thinking and hands-on execution in moments that require leadership, structure, or decisive action.What you will be doingOwn the people strategy for your business area and translate business priorities into a forward-looking people agendaPartner with leadership on organizational design, workforce planning, team structure, and scaling decisionsBuild management capability by coaching leaders on performance, accountability, feedback, and leading through changeDrive performance and calibration processes, ensuring consistency, high standards, and early intervention when neededAct as a strategic partner during periods of rapid growth, reorganizations, integrations, and organizational changeMaintain a strong understanding of organizational health, culture, and engagement, proactively identifying risks and areas that require interventionOwn and manage complex employee relations matters, investigations, restructurings, and employment law topicsPartner with Compensation & Benefits on levelling, compensation reviews, and organizational consistency as the business scalesEnsure governance, documentation standards, and operational rigor scale alongside the company’s growthAct as the key connection point between the business and the broader People organization, ensuring alignment, prioritization, and impactful executionThis is a role for someone who thrives in fast-moving environments, enjoys operating with a high degree of ownership and ambiguity, and wants to play a central role in shaping how a global organization scales.Who you are10+ years as a senior HRBP or People Partner in a high-growth or scaling environmentProven track record as a trusted advisor to C-level and senior leadership, shaping decisions not just supporting themDeep experience across the full people agenda — org design, performance, leadership development, compensation, ER, and organisational change at scaleExperienced in a COE model, operating as the strategic owner of a people agenda while drawing on specialist functions effectivelyStrong command of Swedish employment law, with the ability to navigate additional European markets as the business expandsStructured, precise, and documentation-driven — you understand that rigour is what allows a business to move fast without accumulating riskCalm under pressure, decisive in ambiguity, and confident challenging senior stakeholders when the bar slipsGenuinely motivated by building high-performance cultures — you understand that hiring bar, performance, and accountability are business priorities, not HR onesLegora is an Equal Opportunity EmployerAt Legora, we believe great teams are built on diversity of thought and experience. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive, high-performance culture where everyone can do their best work. We welcome people of all backgrounds and don’t discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.