Head of Legal Engineering, Italy
Core
Establish Legal Engineering as the commercial and delivery engine for Italy, building the team, setting the quality bar, and scaling playbooks for high-stakes legal clients.
Role type
Director-level Head of Legal Engineering (Leadership)
Builds
A scalable Legal Engineering function, team of engineers and Team Leads, and reusable delivery playbooks for enterprise legal clients.
Domain
Legal Technology / Generative AI / Enterprise Legal Services
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | client delivery
Required skills
Legal practice qualification (Italy), team building from scratch, hiring and talent development, stakeholder management with senior legal leaders, program governance, product fluency, commercial judgment
Preferred skills
Experience in legal operations, legal innovation, or legal tech, deep curiosity about generative AI, ability to translate legal problems into technical workflows
Technologies
Generative AI platforms, Legora workflow engine
Responsibilities
Stand up the Legal Engineering function in Milan, hire and develop Legal Engineers and Team Leads, partner with Go-to-Market on priority accounts, act as lead legal architect on enterprise engagements, represent market voice to Product, shape AI and legal work POV in Italy
Seniority
Director, hands-on leadership with strategic market ownership