Legal Partnerships Manager

Job Description

Job Description

About the Company

Avantia is the legal and compliance partner to many of the world’s leading asset managers and private equity firms. We combine specialist sector expertise with AI-powered workflows to help clients move faster, manage risk, and scale globally.

From London to New York, we’re building a new model for legal and compliance delivery - one that blends the precision of expert lawyers with the efficiency and insight of technology. Our proprietary AI platform, Ava, underpins every service we deliver.

It streamlines manual processes, surfaces institutional knowledge, and empowers our attorneys to negotiate from a position of strength, respond faster, and deliver consistently better outcomes.

But technology alone isn’t what sets us apart - it’s how we use it. Avantia is built for people who see change as an opportunity. We’re a team of lawyers, technologists, and specialists who want to shape the future of our industry, not just adapt to it.

We value clarity over caution, innovation over inertia, and collaboration over hierarchy.

We’re pragmatic, ambitious, and united by a shared belief that legal and compliance services can be delivered with greater impact and less friction.

Position Overview

As the Legal Partnerships Manager you will manage our relationships with law firms, investment banks, compliance consultants and other business partnerships globally.

You'll own the full partnership lifecycle, identifying high-value opportunities, negotiating agreements, and managing ongoing relationships that generate measurable business outcomes. This role sits at the intersection of business development, relationship management, and strategic planning.

You'll be responsible for identifying, structuring and growing partnerships that drive distribution of Avantia's services - turning law firms, investment banks and compliance consultancy firms from potential competitors into active referral partners and collaborators.

If you have a background in law or legal services, understand how private markets firms and their advisors operate and are energised by the commercial side of the industry, this role is for you.

Requirements

- Proven knowledge and experience working within a B2B sales environment.

- Experience working in a multi threaded sales environment.

- Demonstrable experience working in a developing and high potential sales environment.

- Have previously led a sales division from strategy through to performance ownership within a high growth businesses.

- Past exposure to VP and C suite reporting lines.

- Experience leading the regional sales presence would be an advantage.