Director, HR Business Partnering - NORAM

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.
2,100+ customers across 80+ countries trust us, including Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin, Linklaters, White & Case, Dentons, and Barclays. We’ve scaled to $200M+ in ARR, with teams across Europe, North America and APAC, and continue to expand through acquisitions including Qura, Walter AI, Graceview, Cadastral, and Wexler.
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.

What you’ll be doing
Let’s get the tricky part out of the way: this role doesn’t fit neatly into a traditional HRBP box. It’s part People strategist, part team builder, part integrator and part trusted advisor to some of the fastest-moving leaders in tech. If you enjoy roles that stay static, this probably isn’t it.
North America is our fastest-growing region, and New York is becoming our second center of gravity. Your mission is to continue to build out the People infrastructure, leadership depth and organizational capability that lets NAMER scale while we are building a better business, not just a bigger one.
Some of what you’ll be up to:

• Owning the NAMER People agenda: turning Legora’s global People strategy and each function’s agenda into one coherent regional plan across workforce, talent, org design and capability.

• Leading and growing the region’s People Business Partners: their craft, development and succession. In the near future, you’ll grow the US team to up to five local BPs.

• Joining up the People team on the ground. Employee Relations, Talent Acquisition, People Operations and Total Rewards each own their expertise; you make sure they work as one team in NAMER, with clear ownership and no dropped handoffs.

• Leading workforce planning, succession and manager capability as the region scales, including the people side of new offices and market entry.

• Owning jurisdictional readiness across the US, Canada and Mexico: the right local capability and processes in place before we operate or scale in a market.

• Being the voice of NAMER in global People decisions, and shaping how Legora’s People strategy evolves as North America grows.

• Steering the region through sensitive, high-stakes matters with sound judgment, while respecting the independence of Employee Relations on case process and findings.

What you bring
You come from the world of HR business partnering, but you’ve never been content with a seat that’s only advisory. You may have built a People function inside a hypergrowth tech company. Maybe you’ve led HRBPs across the US or globally, or stood up People infrastructure for a brand-new market. Perhaps you’ve been the senior People voice in the US hub of a company headquartered elsewhere. Either way, you know what it takes for a fast-scaling organization to hold together, and you’re ready to help leaders build one.
You’ll thrive in this role if you:

• Have senior HRBP or HR leadership experience across multiple countries, with deep knowledge of US employment practice and working knowledge of Canada and/or Mexico.

• Have led and developed a team of Business Partners, and raised the bar for how they partner.

• Lead comfortably through both direct and matrix relationships, and can integrate specialist People functions you don’t manage directly.

• Bring strong commercial and organizational judgment, and push back on the business when a people decision doesn’t hold up.

• Have run workforce planning, org design, performance management and leadership hiring through periods of rapid growth.

• Earn credibility quickly with senior business leaders and global functional heads, and are trusted with sensitive matters.

• Bring structure to ambiguity and energy to complexity, and enjoy being the calm, credible presence when things move fast.

• Care deeply about quality, but don’t get stuck in perfectionism. You get things done, and you make them better over time.

A few more things
We’re a company with bold ambitions, so you’ll be joining at a time when things are moving quickly, in the best possible way. You’ll report to our VP, Global People Partnering, and work alongside your peer Directors in EMEA and APAC. The role is based in New York, with regular travel across our North American offices and to our HQ in Stockholm.
You’ll have a lot of autonomy, a lot of responsibility, and the chance to genuinely shape how People Partnering evolves in our largest market. Everyone here has a founder mentality.
If that sounds exciting rather than terrifying, we’d love to hear from you.

Legora is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At 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.