Strategic Programs Manager

Legora
London, United Kingdom
On-site

Who this role is best for

Aimed at mid-to-senior level professionals with a background in legal or professional services who thrive in high-impact, cross-functional environments.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 6+ years in legal or professional services consulting and a track record of leading end-to-end programs
    — “6+ years of experience in management consulting, strategy, or transformation / implementation-focused roles”
  • Individuals who excel at aligning diverse stakeholders and translating complex data into actionable insights
    — “Driving change management and stakeholder alignment across KM, innovation, IT, practice groups, and attorneys”
  • Professionals who can structure ambiguous problems and deliver measurable outcomes with operational rigor
    — “Bringing a structured, execution-focused mindset to ambiguous problems and pushing work over the finish line”

Things to consider

  • Requires full-time in-person work, with no remote flexibility implied despite high expectations
    — “excited to work in person, collaborating closely with teammates in the office 5 days per week”
  • Highly preferred experience in professional services environments may limit candidates from non-related sectors
    — “experience within a professional services environment (Legal, Big 4, or Management Consulting), which is highly preferred”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience leading cross-functional programs with measurable outcomes in your resume and interviews
    — “you have led programs, workstreams, or teams and can point to outcomes you owned end to end”
  • Demonstrate your ability to synthesize complex ideas into clear, boardroom-ready presentations
    — “PowerPoint power-user with high-velocity output and a proven ability to synthesise ‘messy’ ideas into structured, aesthetic, and boardroom-ready decks”
  • Showcase your change management success in driving AI or tech adoption within complex organizations
    — “strong change management instincts, with a track record of driving adoption across complex stakeholder groups”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • owns the end-to-end rollout program
  • drives change management
Typical background
program management experience

Skills & requirements

Required

Program ManagementChange ManagementStakeholder AlignmentResource CoordinationSuccess MetricsAdoption MetricsFeedback LoopConnective Layer

Preferred

Legal Industry Experience

Stack & domain

LeadershipCommunicationProblem-solvingChange ManagementStakeholder AlignmentResource CoordinationSuccess MetricsAdoption MetricsFeedback LoopConnective LayerStructured MindsetExecution-focusedLegalAIWorkflowsAdoptionImplementation

About the role

Original posting from Legora via Ashby

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.

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 DO

This role sits within our Post-sales organization and is central to how we deliver world-class AI implementations for the world’s leading law firms. As part of our Strategic Programs team, you will own the rollout program for our most strategic accounts, bringing structure, momentum, and follow-through to some of our highest-stakes launches. It sits at the intersection of strategy, operations, and execution, and is built for someone who leads programs, drives change, and moves ambitious initiatives from plan to measurable outcome.

You will report into our Strategic Programs Lead and coordinate closely across Legal Engineering, Engagement, and Customer Delivery to turn ambitious rollouts into reality.

  • Owning the end-to-end rollout program for strategic accounts, including planning, sequencing, and execution across multi-office and multi-practice launches
  • Driving change management and stakeholder alignment across KM, innovation, IT, practice groups, and attorneys to build durable adoption
  • Coordinating resources across Legal Engineering, Engagement, and Customer Delivery to deliver local and cross-border implementations, ensuring Legora best practices are followed for global consistency
  • Owning success metrics and governance, defining what good looks like, establishing the reporting cadence, and making outcomes legible to executives
  • Monitoring and analysing adoption metrics to identify friction points in the user journey and proposing strategic interventions during implementation
  • Owning the feedback loop, turning rollout learnings and adoption signals into reusable playbooks, templates, and benchmarks that raise the bar for every future launch
  • Acting as a connective layer across teams, helping drive clarity, prioritization, and progress
  • Bringing a structured, execution-focused mindset to ambiguous problems and pushing work over the finish line

In short: you will own the operating system that de-risks and accelerates adoption for our most strategic clients, making them faster, more impactful, more consistent, and more measurable.

WHAT YOU BRING

You are a strategist and an operator. You’ve worked in environments where ambiguity is the norm, expectations are high, and outcomes matter, and you thrive in them.

You’ll thrive in this role if you:

  • Have 6+ years of experience in management consulting, strategy, or transformation / implementation-focused roles, with a Bachelor’s degree required
  • Bring demonstrated leadership experience: you have led programs, workstreams, or teams and can point to outcomes you owned end to end
  • Have experience within a professional services environment (Legal, Big 4, or Management Consulting), which is highly preferred
  • Bring strong change management instincts, with a track record of driving adoption across complex stakeholder groups
  • Are a PowerPoint power-user with high-velocity output and a proven ability to synthesise ‘messy’ ideas into structured, aesthetic, and boardroom-ready decks
  • Bring strong analytical skills and can translate data into clear, actionable insights
  • Maintain an obsession with user adoption and responding to client needs
  • Have exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail
  • Communicate clearly and confidently, with the ability to influence stakeholders across teams
  • Take ownership naturally: you don’t wait to be told, you move things forward
  • Are a practical problem-solver with a strong bias toward execution and operational rigor
  • Bring a relentless, hands-on, get-it-done mindset
  • Are excited to work in person, collaborating closely with teammates in the office 5 days per week

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU

  • Global collaboration: Partner with teams and clients across regions, on work that crosses every major legal market.
  • Meaningful work: Your work shapes how the world’s leading legal teams adopt AI day to day.
  • Competitive package: Comprehensive salary, benefits, and the tools to do your best work.
  • In-person environment: A workspace built for ambitious builders.

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.

Source: Legora careers (Ashby)

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