Director, Employee Relations & Compliance, EMEA

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.

The Role

This is our first Director of Employee Relations & Compliance for EMEA: a senior, hands-on role owning ER casework, employment law compliance and jurisdictional risk across Germany, the UK, Sweden, Italy, Spain and France.

Based in London, you'll be the standing authority on ER practice in the region. You'll own complex casework end to end, build dedicated ER capability where none exists today, and extend the strength we already have in Stockholm. You'll report to the EMEA People Director, with a path to running an independent function reporting to the CHRO as it scales.

What You'll Do

ER leadership and casework

• Own complex casework end to end across every market: investigations, grievances, disciplinaries, PIPs and terminations for cause, to a consistently high, legally sound standard.

• Be the escalation point when a matter turns complex, contested or legally weighted, for Local People Advisory and the wider People org.

• Hold the bar on case handling: written scoping, contemporaneous documentation, balance-of-probabilities findings, and independent second review of any outcome that could end employment.

Compliance and jurisdictional risk

• Own employment and ER compliance across all six markets: statutory notice and consultation, works council and union engagement, mandatory filings and register-keeping, and local implementation of the EU Whistleblowing Directive (disclosures run through a separate channel).

• Maintain the EMEA jurisdiction playbook and horizon-scan for legal changes, flagging implications to leadership early.

• Engage Employment Counsel at the right moment with a clear written scope, not as a late rescue.

• Note: comp-related compliance (pay equity, gender pay gap, benefits) sits with Rewards.

Team and capability building

• Build dedicated ER capability across EMEA, prioritised by risk and case volume, on the foundation of the Stockholm team.

• Certify and calibrate anyone running a formal ER process, keeping casework consistent as the team grows.

Stakeholder partnership and consistency

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