Legora · Stockholm
Senior Operations Manager - Business Operations (founding)
ABOUT US 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 exce...
ABOUT US
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.
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 ROLE
Legora is adding 100+ people a month and heading toward 2,000. At that pace the informal, tribal version of how a company runs
breaks down fast: new joiners reconstruct how decisions get made through Slack threads, and teams quietly point in different
directions. The fix is an explicit, durable operating model — and someone who owns it permanently.
This is that role. This is a founding role: you will build the function from scratch, then scale it as Legora grows. As Senior
Operations Manager, you will own the machine that turns company strategy into coordinated execution: the planning cycle, the
metric tree, the operating cadence, and the decision-rights framework. You will be Legora's cross-functional integrator — the
person who owns the seams between teams, ensures direction set at the top reaches execution on the ground, and keeps alignment
from decaying between quarterly beats.
You report to the VP of Operations, work with the C-suite and functional leads, and will build a small BizOps team as the function
matures. This is a founding operator role: the operating model is being stood up now, and you will inherit it, own it, and scale
it.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Own Legora's operating model: how direction is set, how it cascades to every team, how decisions get made, and how alignment is
built and held.
- Run the company's operating rhythm: quarterly planning cycle, OKR process, weekly metrics heartbeat, and company calendar.
- Build and maintain the metric tree — from company North Star down to team-level inputs — and make it the single shared
scoreboard the whole org reads off.
- Define and hold the decision-rights framework: who owns what, what escalates, and how fast it moves.
- Serve as the cross-functional integrator for initiatives that fall between team mandates; own the handoffs and the hard
conversations that no single team will pick up.
- Partner with functional leads — EPD, GTM, Finance, People, Legal — to translate company bets into team goals and roadmaps.
- Produce the structured communication that keeps direction clear: quarterly all-hands framing, leadership committee materials,
and the standing forums that repeat the why.
- Over time, build and lead a small Business Operations team to own this function at scale.
WHAT YOU BRING
- 8+ years of experience, with a track record that combines analytical rigor with hands-on operating work. The classic arc is
consulting or banking into strategy, then into an operator seat — but we welcome other paths that build the same muscles.
- Experience running company-wide planning processes: OKRs, quarterly reviews, metric trees, or equivalent at a company of 300+
people.
- Strong operating judgment — you move fluidly between designing the system and running it, between a leadership committee deck
and an in-the-weeds implementation conversation.
- Executive presence and backbone: you build trust quickly and drive outcomes through influence, not authority, in rooms with
founders and VPs.
- A clear, direct communication style. You write proposals before meetings, state the recommendation up front, and do not bury
the lead.
- Comfort building in ambiguity: this is a founding role and a new function. The job is to create the structure, not maintain it.
STRONG CANDIDATES MAY ALSO
- Have built an operating model, planning cadence, or decision-rights framework from scratch at a scaling company.
- Bring experience with M&A integration or organisational design — both are live workstreams at Legora.
- Have worked in a Chief of Staff or VP Ops capacity, either as the role or as a close partner to it.
- Come from a hyper-growth environment where the org doubled more than once during their tenure.
WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU
- Global collaboration: Partner with teams and customers across Europe, APAC, and North America.
- Competitive package: Comprehensive salary, equity, benefits, and tools for success.
- Meaningful work: You are building the operating system for a company rewriting how the legal industry works.
- In-person environment: Stockholm or New York offices designed for ambitious builders.
- Benefits & Perks: We invest in our people with a comprehensive, thoughtfully designed benefits package.
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.
Role
Senior Operations Manager - Business Operations (founding)
Locations
Published
June 17
Deadline
August 16