About the Role
Lead Harvey's Legal Engineering teams across EMEA, managing Legal Engineering Managers and overseeing teams supporting pre-sales customer engagements. This role focuses on organizational leadership, operational excellence, and cross-functional execution, requiring exceptional people leadership, business judgment, and system-building abilities.
Responsibilities
- Lead, develop, and scale a team of Legal Engineering Managers and their organizations serving Harvey's in-house customers.
- Build systems, processes, and operating mechanisms for Legal Engineering to deliver exceptional customer outcomes at scale.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, and Operations to align priorities and drive execution.
- Act as a trusted advisor to legal department leaders and an influential partner to senior stakeholders.
- Drive organizational performance through effective planning, resource management, talent development, and operational excellence.
- Help define the future of Legal Engineering and how Harvey partners with leading corporate legal departments.
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer with 9+ years of post-qualification experience (PQE).
- Experience practicing law at a top-tier law firm (Vault 50 or equivalent) and/or in-house at a F500 or leading tech company, with significant client-facing experience.
- Experience leading managers and manager-led organizations.
- Demonstrated success building and scaling high-performing teams in complex, fast-paced environments.
- Experience owning organizational systems, processes, and operating models.
- Proven ability to build strong cross-functional partnerships and drive results across multiple stakeholders.
- Strong track record of managing upward and influencing senior leaders.
- Experience representing an organization externally and building trusted relationships with executive-level stakeholders.
- Deep understanding of enterprise legal teams, including corporate, litigation, investigations, regulatory, compliance, and legal operations functions, as well as the evolving legal technology landscape.
- Exceptional communication, leadership, and organizational skills.
Skills
- People leadership
- Business judgment
- System building
- Cross-functional partnership
- Upward management
- External representation
- Executive stakeholder relationship building
- Legal technology landscape understanding
- Communication
- Organizational skills
Experience Level
- 9+ years of post-qualification experience (PQE)
Education Level
- Qualified lawyer
About the Company
- Harvey is transforming how legal and professional services operate by combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise.
- The company has strong product-market fit and world-class investor support, and is scaling fast to define a new category.
- Harvey's team moves fast, takes ownership, and is deeply committed to the mission, operating with intensity, staying close to customers, and pushing for excellence.
- The company values Decisiveness, Simplicity, and Job's Not Finished.
- The future of professional services is being written at Harvey.
Equal Opportunity
- Harvey is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.
- We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made by emailing accommodations@harvey.ai.
