Group Engineering Manager, LegalZoom
$179.1-286.6k
2+ days a week in office (Mountain View CA )
Online legal advice platform
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Online legal advice platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$179.1-286.6k
2+ days a week in office (Mountain View CA )
1001+ employees
Company mission
To transform how people navigate the legal system.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years managing product engineering teams
- A track record of shipping AI-powered products , LLM-based assistants, copilots, or agentic workflows, with real users and measurable impact
- Strong full-stack foundations: you can credibly lead architecture decisions and code reviews, not just manage them
- Experience designing multi-step agentic workflows that act on behalf of users across tools, APIs, or services
- The ability to move fast in ambiguity, you've led teams where the roadmap was still forming and shipped anyway
- A founder's communication style: you translate complex technical tradeoffs into clear recommendations for non-technical stakeholders
What the job involves
- Most legal decisions that shape someone's life: starting a business, protecting a family, securing an asset, still happen without any expert guidance. We're changing that. At LegalZoom, we're building a new category of AI-powered legal experience, and this role is a founding leadership position in that effort
- You'll be the engineering leader shaping how millions of people get real, intelligent help navigating the legal system, not maintaining a product, but inventing one
- You will own a significant engineering workstream in our SF Bay Area hub, partnering closely with Product, Design, Data, and AI Enablement to ship high-quality, reliable AI applications that are deeply embedded in our core DIY and DIFM products
- Your team will blend strong full-stack engineering with modern AI capabilities to deliver intuitive, safe, and measurable AI app experiences end-to-end
- Design, build, and operate customer-facing AI applications , conversational flows, copilots, and embedded assistants across web and mobile
- Own end-to-end delivery of agentic workflows, from problem framing through architecture, implementation, and production operations
- Set and uphold high engineering standards for code quality, system design, performance, and security , especially for workflows that act on behalf of users
- Partner with Product and Design to define roadmaps, scope, and success metrics for AI-powered features , balancing speed with safety, reliability, and legal/financial regulatory constraints
- Drive experimentation and use data to validate impact, inform tradeoffs, and remove blockers that slow delivery
- Bring a builder's mindset: you're comfortable with ambiguity, move fast when the path is unclear, and treat your team's work like your own product
- Develop and mentor engineers and senior engineers , coaching with clear frameworks, setting high expectations, and fostering a culture of ownership and psychological safety
- Staff the right people on the highest-impact initiatives, balancing technical depth, stakeholder management, and delivery skills
- Champion a diverse, inclusive, high-performing engineering culture across the SF Bay Area and distributed teams
- Partner with AI Enablement and Data teams to build on shared platforms , agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, safety/eval harnesses , rather than bespoke one-offs
- Drive cross-functional alignment with Engineering, Product, Operations, and Compliance leaders
- Communicate clearly with senior stakeholders, translating complex AI systems into concise narratives and recommendations
Our take
LegalZoom is an online legal technology service that can help people create their own legal documents. It believes legal advice and services should be clear, easy-to-understand, and affordable, and provides services to help people make a will, start a business, lodge a trademark application, and more.
LegalZoom has helped millions of people who otherwise could not hire a lawyer with its extensive range of legal solutions. It competes with a handful of other companies, such as IncFile and Rocket Lawyer, that also provide online legal technology.
Despite operating in a competitive market, LegalZoom has continued to expand, helped in part by growing demand for digital legal solutions, Its 2021 IPO provided further momentum, allowing it to scale its operations and invest in new growth opportunities.
Most notably, the company has now been named the provider of 'legal help' for Perplexity - a partnership that could potentially reshape how consumers and small businesses discover and engage with legal services, positioning legal support as something more accessible.
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Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jul 2011
$66m
SERIES B
Mar 2007
$45m
SERIES A
Total funding: $111m
Company benefits
- Remote-friendly work, encouraging time outside the office to relax and recharge
- Comprehensive health benefits, including mental health and fertility care
- A culture of growth, fostering learning and development and opportunities to give back
Company HQ
Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Jeff Stibel
(CEO)Jeff has been the CEO of LegalZoom since 2014. Alongside this role, he is also a Partner at Bryant Stibel, on the Board of Trustees at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and a Chairman at The BrainGate Company.
Noel Watson
(COO & CFO)Noel joined LegalZoom in 2020 as CFO, adding COO to his title in 2024. Prior to this, he was the CFO at TrueCar and VP of Finance/Chief Accounting Officer at TripAdvisor.
Nicole Miller
(CLO & General Counsel)Nicole joined LegalZoom in 2020 as a General Counsel, adding CLO to her title in 2024. Prior to this, she spent 6 years at The Honest Company, joining in 2014 as a Senior Corporate Counsel before becoming VP of Legal Affairs and Associate General Counsel in 2016 and then moving into the role of General Counsel in 2018.
Prior to joining LegalZoom in 2021, Sheily was the VP of Global Human Resources at Activision Blizzard. She also spent nearly 10 years at Google in various roles, including Director of Global Trust & Safety Operations.
Daniel Lysaught
(CMO)Daniel joined LegalZoom in 2022 as a VP of Growth Marketing before stepping into the role of CMO in 2023. Prior to this, he was a VP of Growth Product & Marketing at Good Eggs. He also spent 6 years at TrueCar in various roles, including Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships & Marketing and VP of Customer Acquisition.
Kathy Tsitovich
(Chief Corporate Development & Partnership Officer)Prior to joining LegalZoom in 2020, Kathy spent 21 years at Intuit. While there, she held a number of roles, including VP of Consumer Group and Business Development.
Aaron Stibel
(CBO & CCO)Alongside LegalZoom, Aaron is a Founding Partner at Bryant Stibel, a Board Member at RBmedia, and an Advisory Board Member at Tufts University.
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