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New York, New York, United States
Onsite
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.
We are hiring a Senior Manager, Workforce Planning & Analytics to join FP&A at Legora. This is a finance role with a clear mandate: own the planning, forecasting, and financial governance of our largest cost base, our people.
Personnel cost represents the majority of Legora's operating spend. As we scale, we need the same rigor around headcount that we apply to revenue, cash, and the rest of the P&L. You will own that discipline.
You will build and run our companywide workforce plan, translate hiring decisions into financial impact, forecast personnel cost against actuals, and ensure every open role is supported by an approved plan. You will give leadership a clear view of where we are investing, what those investments cost, and how hiring decisions affect the financial plan.
You will sit within FP&A and partner closely with business leaders, People, and Talent Acquisition. Finance will own the plan and the economics. Your role is to make sure hiring activity stays connected to both.
You will also own the data and systems that support workforce planning, creating a trusted view of headcount, open positions, hiring timing, and personnel cost across our HRIS, ATS, and financial planning environment.
This is a high visibility role at the intersection of financial planning and operating execution. The goal is simple: make headcount planning faster, more accurate, and more accountable as Legora scales.
You will be the FP&A owner for workforce planning and personnel cost across Legora.
Own the companywide headcount plan, including current employees, approved openings, future hiring, start dates, location, level, and cost
Forecast total personnel cost across salary, bonus, commissions, employer taxes, benefits, and share based compensation, with monthly variance analysis against plan and actuals
Own headcount governance, ensuring new requisitions, replacements, transfers, and changes to planned roles are consistent with the approved financial plan
Maintain the financial source of truth for headcount and personnel cost across Finance, People, and Talent Acquisition
Translate annual operating plans into hiring plans by function, geography, level, and timing
Partner with business leaders to evaluate workforce investment decisions, including hiring pace, organizational structure, productivity, and tradeoffs against the broader financial plan
Partner with Talent Acquisition on hiring capacity, timing, and sequencing so the forecast reflects realistic hiring assumptions
Build financial views of organizational efficiency, including revenue per employee, personnel cost as a percentage of revenue, functional spend ratios, management leverage, and hiring productivity
Own position management from a Finance perspective, including the connection between approved positions, Ashby, our HRIS, and financial planning systems
Partner with Total Rewards on compensation assumptions, pay bands, equity, and offer governance to ensure hiring decisions remain within plan
Build the workforce reporting used in management, Board, investor, and audit materials
Create models, dashboards, controls, and processes that improve forecast accuracy and reduce manual reconciliation
Continuously improve how Legora allocates its largest investment across teams, markets, and functions
7+ years of experience in FP&A, workforce planning, or commercial finance, with meaningful ownership of headcount and personnel cost
Experience from a technology and/or scale-up start-up environment
Deep fluency in workforce metrics, including spans and layers, attrition and replacement modelling, ramp, cost per hire, and functional headcount ratios
Hands-on experience owning a hiring plan and a personnel cost forecast, including re-forecasting through the year
Strong modelling skills, with the ability to build clean, flexible, decision-ready plans that hold up under scenario pressure
Practical experience working across ATS and HRIS data, ideally including position management, and comfort defining requirements for system implementations or migrations
Proven ability to build strong relationships with People, Talent, and functional leadership, and to hold the line on governance without becoming a blocker
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, using data to inform decisions and improve outcomes
A builder mindset, comfortable working through ambiguity, maturing processes, and implementing scalable improvements
Strong execution skills and the ability to manage competing priorities during planning cycles and month-end close
Clear, concise communication skills, with the ability to translate numbers into narrative for non-finance stakeholders
Comfort with finance and people systems (e.g. Ashby, HiBob or Workday, ERP, and planning/BI tools) is a plus
Global collaboration: Partner with teams and clients across Europe, APAC, and North America.
Competitive package: Comprehensive salary, benefits, and tools for success.
Meaningful work: Your efforts shape how thousands of lawyers use AI daily.
In-person environment: Union Square office designed for ambitious builders and company provided lunch daily.
Benefits & Perks: We invest in our people with a comprehensive, thoughtfully designed benefits package:
Medical, Dental & Vision
Multiple medical plan options through Aetna and Kaiser Permanente
HSA or Healthcare FSA (based on plan selection)
Dental plans via MetLife
Vision plans via Vision Care
Family Support
Generous parental leave
Free access to Maven Clinic
Dependent Care FSA
Free One Medical membership for employees and dependents
Additional Perks
Pre-tax commuter benefits
Life Insurance + STD/LTD
401(K) with generous company match
Unlimited PTO
Robust voluntary benefits, including identity protection (via Aura), legal coverage via MetLife, pet savings programs, and more
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.
