Legora is the collaborative AI powering lawyers to review and research faster, draft smarter, and advise with precision. Legora adapts to your ways of working, unlocking team and machine collaboration at scale. Backed by Accel, Bessemer and General Catalyst.
About the role
As Director, Private Markets, you will lead, coach, and scale a high-performing team of Account Executives dedicated to Legora's Private Markets vertical — one of our most strategic growth areas. Sitting within Strategic Sales, you'll combine hands-on commercial leadership with deep domain ownership of the Private Markets ecosystem, helping the world's leading investment firms transform how they work with AI.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years experience
- People Leadership: Experience leading, mentoring, or developing team members
- Commercial/Client-Facing Transition: Demonstrated success in a client-facing, revenue-generating, or business-development capacity
- Deal & Process Fluency: Comfort managing complex, multi-stakeholder processes end-to-end – Familiarity with deal qualification, stakeholder mapping, discovery frameworks etc
- Executive Presence: Credibility to engage MDs, Partners, and GC-level buyers as a peer
- Commercial & Analytical Toolkit: Comfort with CRM tools (Salesforce or similar), and the ability to build and present a business case or account plan to senior audiences
More about this role
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.
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