Product & Engineering Director

Senior Director Human Resources | Talent and PeopleWe are looking for a
Product Engineering Director
to lead our engineering organization at the intersection of innovation, performance, and customer-centric delivery. As a senior leader reporting directly to the
Chief Product Officer
, you will be responsible for turning product vision into scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions that transform the way legal professionals work.You will drive the development of our
GenAI-enabled products
, ensure delivery excellence, and foster a strong engineering culture rooted in agile practices, modern architecture, and continuous innovation.Engineering Strategy and Technical LeadershipDevelop and scale core legal technology platforms, APIs, and AI-powered experiences.Evaluate and integrate agentic platforms and frameworks to enable dynamic, autonomous user experiences.Lead the implementation of our cutting edge Legal Technology MorAI solutions.Collaborate with product teams to embed AI/ML into key features such as search, summarization, content recommendation, and automation.Drive platform extensibility, scalability, and security for enterprise legal environments.Leverage agentic frameworks to create adaptive and context-aware features that enhance legal workflows.Champion agile engineering practices across cross-functional squads.Ensure high-quality, on-time delivery of features with clear metrics and accountability.Manage engineering capacity, prioritization, sprint planning, and release cycles in collaboration with product and design.Grow, mentor, and lead a world-class engineering team across frontend, backend, DevOps, QA, and AI/ML functions.Foster a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.Implement effective hiring, onboarding, and growth programs for a high-performing, inclusive engineering culture.Lead and support a distributed, remote-first engineering team with a focus on asynchronous collaboration and communication.Partner closely with Product, Design, Legal SMEs, and Customer Success to ensure the technology aligns with business needs and market expectations.Own key engineering KPIs including system uptime, velocity, tech debt reduction, and deployment frequency.10+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years in engineering leadership roles.- Proven experience building and scaling B2B SaaS or enterprise platforms—experience in legal tech is a plus.- Deep understanding of agile and DevOps practices; experience managing distributed engineering teams.- Demonstrated success in delivering AI/ML-powered applications in production environments.- AWS, Azure), data privacy, and security best practices.- Bonus Qualifications:legal, finance, healthcare).OpenAI, vector databases, prompt engineering, RAG pipelines).Experience scaling and leading global remote engineering teams.This is a rare opportunity to define and lead the technology behind the next wave of innovation in legal tech. You’ll play a critical role in building the foundation for our growth and ensuring we deliver exceptional, secure, and intelligent experiences to our customers.Morae is a dynamic, high-growth organization that provides an integrated suite of solutions to corporate law departments and law firms, and partners with leading software and services providers, both within and outside the legal industry. We are a young company but are made up of seasoned professionals in the legal industry, with a focus on building productive long-term relationships with employees and clients in an environment where collaboration is encouraged, knowledge is shared freely, and diversity of thought, cultures, communities, and points of view is embraced. Learn more at
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