Head of AMER Legal Engineering (In-House)
$400k - $450k • Remote • San Francisco • FullTime
Posted 1mo ago
Job Location
San Francisco
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
Applied AI Engineer
About the job
Harvey is transforming legal and professional services by combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise. This role offers a unique opportunity to help build a generational company at an inflection point, with a strong product-market fit and significant customer base. The team operates with intensity, ownership, and a commitment to continuous improvement, guided by values of Decisiveness, Simplicity, and Job's Not Finished. We are looking for individuals who want to do the best work of their careers alongside driven colleagues.
Responsibilities
- Lead, develop, and scale a team of Legal Engineering Managers and their organizations serving in-house customers in the Americas.
- Build systems, processes, and operating mechanisms to enable Legal Engineering to deliver exceptional customer outcomes at scale.
- Partner closely 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 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 and the evolving legal technology landscape.
- Exceptional communication, leadership, and organizational skills.
- Experience leading teams outside of a traditional law department hierarchy (preferred).
- Experience in legal technology, professional services, consulting, legal innovation, legal operations, or other customer-facing organizations (preferred).
- Experience operating in a high-growth technology company (preferred).
- Experience leading globally distributed teams (preferred).
- Demonstrated ability to create structure and drive execution in rapidly evolving environments (preferred).
- Experience working across multiple legal practice areas (preferred).