LawVu is transforming the legal industry by providing the world’s leading and most loved platform for in-house legal teams. 

LawVu is a fast growing New Zealand software company with customers and employees around the globe, including in New Zealand, United States, Australia and Europe. Our legal workspace is a category creating software platform that is designed specifically for in-house legal teams. We’re backed by leading venture capital firms, including Insight Partners and Airtree Ventures. 

What you’ll do…

Global Talent Architecture

LawVu is a global organisation that currently operates across 26 countries. You must have experience in designing talent systems that work across borders. Your core skills will include:

• Workforce planning across multiple geographies
• International hiring models (EOR, contractors, subsidiaries)
• Global compliance fluency (or ability to architect support for it)
• Compensation philosophy across currencies and markets
• Distributed onboarding design

Scaling & Organizational Design

At 160 people we are at an inflection point for the growth of our people and culture. We are looking for a candidate who can proactively design for our next stage of scale. Key capabilities include:

• Org design for growth (structure, layers, spans of control)
• Succession planning and leadership bench building
• Performance frameworks that don’t crush agility
• Role clarity and decision rights (RACI-level thinking)

It is essential that you have experience having scaled through this stage before.

Leadership Development in a Distributed Model

Remote/global teams amplify leadership challenges. You will have demonstrable experience in capability development through:

• Coaching leaders through ambiguity
• Building first-time managers
• Cultural alignment across regions
• Conflict navigation across cultures
• Executive team facilitation

Talent Acquisition Strategy 

Hiring quality is fundamental, more than assistance with recruiting we are looking for.

• Employer brand strategy in multiple markets
• Structured, bias-aware hiring processes
• Competency-based interviews
• Workforce forecasting tied to growth strategy
• Strong recruiter enablement or vendor management
• Consideration of pipelines and capability gaps, over requisitions

Data & Commercial Acumen

Our People leader must speak the language of growth. You will need:

• Comfort with people analytics and the storytelling behind the data
• Ability to tie headcount to revenue productivity
• Retention analytics
• Cost-of-hire and comp ratio understanding
• Budget ownership
• To be comfortable representing at board level, discussing people strategy as a growth lever, not a support function

Change & Communication Agility

In global environments policies break, communication misfires, culture fragments quickly, so we are looking for an HR leader who:

• Communicates clearly and transparently
• Designs change rollouts intentionally
• Can stabilize teams during rapid pivots
• Has high EQ and political acuity

Cultural Stewardship at Scale

26 countries means a risk of cultural drift. Key strengths we are looking for include:

• Defining and codifying values
• Translating values into action led behaviors
• Embedding culture into performance and promotion
• Balancing global consistency with local nuance

Reports to

Chief Operating Officer

Location

LawVu HQ is in Tauranga, New Zealand. We are open to negotiation regarding location of the right candidate.

Why lawVu?

At Lawvu we support many types of flexible working arrangements that allow you to balance your work, your life and your passions. We offer the opportunity to get onboard a growth company early and the opportunity to participate in LawVu’s success through our incentive scheme. LawVu has rapidly expanding offices and our work environment encourages continuous improvement and future career development. 

Our collaborative and inclusive culture is one we’re immensely proud of. We know that a diverse workforce is a strength that enables us to better understand and serve customers and innovate successfully. From the moment you join, you’ll feel welcome and supported to do the best work of your life.

Our team is only as strong as the culture it is built upon. Our core values are:

Dig Deeper.

LawVu was founded to bring greater honesty and integrity to the legal industry – so it makes sense that we ourselves, are good, honest people. We believe in staying humble, and realise that we all have a lot to learn, no matter who we are. We believe in acknowledging others and giving credit where it’s due. Find the “truth” Listen carefully Question intently Connect with empathy Be honest and transparent. “Dig Deeper - Challenge each other. Respectfully.”

Back yourself. Back others.

At LawVu, we are inspired by ‘impossibilities’. To make the ‘impossible’ a reality, each and every one of us must think like a problem solver – erasing the word ‘can’t’ from our minds. There is always a way to overcome challenges and we won’t rest until we’ve found it. If we can’t find the right path, that’s when it’s time to build a new one. Trust in our individual expertise. Grab opportunities. Embrace challenges. Mistakes happen. Own them. Learn from them, spread the knowledge. Be truthful. Be helpful. Be kind. Celebrate your successes. “Back yourself. Back others as we are a tribe, we win as a team.”

Move swiftly, create simplicity.

To reach our full potential it is vital that every team member own their actions. To own your actions is to embrace responsibility, show leadership and take initiative. To ‘put our name on it’ is also to take pride in everything we do – from our results to our customer service and quality of solutions. Do the things that matter most. Be fluid and flexible If you can solve a problem, solve it now. Optimise the important.  “Move swiftly, create simplicity by designing for scalability.”  

Bring your whole self.

We are passionate about what we do and we work hard to deliver results. In saying that, we are serious about striking a healthy work/life balance. We know that our work improves as a result of feeling content both inside and out of the office and encourage the team to work the hours that suit their situation. We also believe flexibility and fresh thinking hold the key to future growth. It is up to each of us to champion new ideas and approach change with an open mind. Bring your personality Bring your quirks. “Bring your whole self by bringing your diversity. Bring your smile. Enjoy the adventure.