Legal Talent Partner
About the role
We’re looking for a Legal Talent Partner to take ownership of some of our most important (and honestly, hardest-to-fill) hires as we scale across the UK and US. You’d own the strategy and the day-to-day for recruiting our Legal Engineers and Legal Solutions Architects: the specialists who pair deep real estate legal expertise with the ability to shape market-leading AI products.
Responsibilities
- Hire for our legal specialist roles
- Work closely with Product, GTM, and leadership to define what “great” looks like for each Legal Engineer and Legal Solutions Architect role.
- Run full-cycle hiring that balances speed with proper depth of assessment, often across several roles and hiring managers at once.
- Talk to lawyers, legal professionals, and ex-practitioners in their own language. Understand their specialties, and get a real read on their real-estate-law depth.
- Position Orbital as the place lawyers go when they want meaningful, applied, non-practicing work in AI and legal tech.
- Build pipelines where they don’t already exist: engaging passive candidates, mapping specialist communities, and turning a bit of curiosity into real interest.
- Coach interviewers on how to assess both legal and technical ability.
- Bring the market insight: who’s out there, what they expect, what they’re paid, and who else is chasing them.
- Help the team make confident calls, backed by data and good judgment.
Requirements
You don’t need to tick every box. But the people who’ll thrive here tend to:
- Have recruited lawyers before, whether in-house, in an agency, or in legal tech, and know how to spot the real thing.
- Know real estate law, or be the kind of person who’ll learn it fast. You don’t need to be a lawyer, but you do need enough fluency to judge specialty, seniority, and relevance.
- Be comfortable talking to lawyers as career-changers. You get their motivations, their hesitations, and what excites them about tech.
- Build pipelines where they don’t already exist: engaging passive candidates, mapping specialist communities, and turning a bit of curiosity into real interest.
- Hire in fast-moving, high-growth places, and can balance speed with rigor without dropping either.
- Tell a good story. You can explain why Orbital is different, and why these roles are a smart move for a lawyer.
- Be structured and data-led. You build clear processes, and you’re comfortable talking numbers with senior people.
Qualifications
Nice-to-haves (don’t worry if not)
- You’ve hired for legal tech, legal engineering, legal operations, or other product-adjacent legal roles.
- You know your way around US state bar and/or UK qualification routes, and the real estate legal world.
- You’ve hired across multiple jurisdictions, or helped scale a team through a Series B startup.
Skills
These hires sit right at the heart of how Orbital is built and sold. They shape how our technology gets made, adopted, and scaled across the legal world. Get this right and you’ll unlock a rare pool of specialists, and directly speed up our growth in the markets that matter most to us. It’s about as high-impact as a talent role gets here, with a lot of ownership from day one.
Benefits
- A competitive salary of $120,000 to $185,000, plus equity.
- 401(k) with a 100% match on your contributions up to 4% of salary.
- Medical, dental, and vision cover, with Orbital paying 100% of your employee premium.
- 20 days’ PTO, plus 11 public holidays and 40 hours of paid sick time.
- A generous parental leave policy for all parents and caregivers.
- Flexible, hybrid working from our New York office.
- Top-quality equipment, a $1,200 yearly professional development stipend, and ongoing training.
- Pre-tax commuter benefits.
- Regular team off-sites, shared meals, and socials.
Pay
The salary range for this position is $120,000 to $185,000, with a 100% match on your contributions up to 4% of salary. We share salary ranges upfront to build trust, cut bias, and make the whole thing fairer.
Schedule
We offer flexible, hybrid working from our New York office.