People Business Partner

📋 Description

• • Legora is at the forefront of redefining legal work through its innovative AI-native workspace, empowering legal professionals to enhance their efficiency, ask more insightful questions, and unlock new perspectives. We are dedicated to collaborating closely with legal experts to ensure our solutions are not just technologically advanced but also practically relevant and effective in real-world scenarios.
• • Our mission extends beyond mere speed; we aim to elevate the quality of legal work by making complex processes smarter, faster, and more human-centric. This involves analyzing vast quantities of documents in minutes and designing intelligent workflows in partnership with leading legal practices, transforming theoretical possibilities into tangible realities.
• • Currently, Legora is trusted by prominent global firms such as Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin, Bird & Bird, and Linklaters, with operations spanning over 40 countries. However, our ambition for growth and innovation remains undiminished. We pride ourselves on a culture of rapid iteration, effective scaling, and continuous improvement, driven by a deliberate and strategic approach.
• • Joining Legora means becoming part of a team that rejects mediocrity and embraces a "togetherness" ethos. We are committed to empowering lawyers to achieve their best work through technology that genuinely understands their needs and challenges.
• • If you are passionate about building solutions from foundational principles, collaborating with exceptional individuals, and driving significant change within a high-stakes, high-impact industry, Legora presents a unique and timely opportunity.
• • As Legora expands its market presence, the inherent complexity of our operations increases, leading to heightened expectations and a narrowed margin for error. This growth necessitates a strong sense of responsibility, not only to maintain our rapid pace but also to execute with unwavering discipline and precision.
• • In this critical role as People Business Partner, you will serve as a senior strategic partner to leadership, upholding rigorous performance standards, ensuring accountability, and safeguarding employment governance across the organization. Your responsibilities will extend beyond acting as an escalation point for complex or high-risk situations; you will proactively engage to clarify expectations, ensure decision consistency, and reinforce leadership accountability as the company scales.
• • To maintain fairness and decision quality during this growth phase, Legora is intentionally separating Talent Acceleration functions from Risk & Governance. While the People Enablement Partner will focus on hiring and team expansion, you will be instrumental in ensuring that performance integrity, compliance, and governance maturity evolve in lockstep with the company's growth.
• • This role demands a unique blend of strong business acumen and meticulous legal precision. You will take the lead on intricate employee relations matters, provide expert advice on employment risk, define and refine performance standards and calibration processes, and fortify the structural foundations essential for consistent and defensible decision-making.
• • In situations marked by ambiguity or difficulty, you will be the source of clarity, structure, and composure, guiding the business towards decisions that are robust and withstand scrutiny.
• • Key responsibilities include: Owning complex employee relations matters from inception to resolution, encompassing performance improvement plans, thorough investigations, disciplinary actions, terminations, and sensitive absence management cases, all while ensuring outcomes are fair, consistent, and legally sound.
• • Collaborating closely with leaders on performance standards, calibration sessions, and critical organizational decisions, thereby upholding consistency, accountability, and high-quality documentation across all teams.
• • Providing expert advice and guidance to leadership during organizational changes, restructurings, and other significant structural shifts, ensuring full legal compliance, effective risk mitigation, and disciplined execution.
• • Proactively intervening in early-stage performance or conduct concerns to enhance manager capabilities and ensure issues are addressed effectively before formal escalation is required.
• • Offering counsel on labor law and employment risk across various jurisdictions, facilitating commercially viable and compliant decision-making.
• • Strengthening scalable governance frameworks by refining Employee Relations (ER) processes, enhancing documentation standards, and implementing structural safeguards that underpin disciplined growth.
• • As Legora continues to expand, you will be responsible for designing and reinforcing scalable ER and governance processes that enable us to operate with agility without compromising our core integrity.
• • In close collaboration with the People Enablement Partner, you will ensure seamless transitions throughout the employment lifecycle, maintain alignment between performance frameworks and formal ER processes, and uphold consistent documentation standards.
• • You will proactively identify systemic risks and recurring patterns, proposing structural improvements to enhance clarity, consistency, or accountability where needed.