Head of Legal Engineering, Japan

At Harvey, we're transforming how legal and professional services operate by combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise.

This is a rare chance to help build a generational company at a true inflection point. We have strong product-market fit and world-class investor support. We're scaling fast and defining a new category in real time. The work is ambitious, the bar is high, and the opportunity for growth , personal, professional, and financial , is unmatched.

Our team moves fast, takes ownership, and is deeply committed to the mission , operating with intensity, staying close to our customers, and pushing each other for excellence. We live by three values: Decisiveness, Simplicity, and Job's Not Finished.

ROLE OVERVIEW

Harvey's Japan Head of Legal Engineering is an experienced lawyer-operator who will build and manage a Japan-based team of Legal Engineers and Legal Engineering Product Specialists. They will lead this hybrid team to help Japanese law firms and in-house legal departments integrate Harvey into their day-to-day workflows, driving adoption, measurable value, and long-term expansion.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing Japan Legal Engineering team, including both Legal Engineers and Legal Engineering Product Specialists, with clear goals, coaching, and career paths.
• Design the operating model for Legal Engineering in Japan , coverage model, engagement rhythm, and collaboration patterns with Sales, Customer Success, and Product , to support both pre-sales and post-sales needs.
• Ensure your team consistently delivers high-quality discovery, demos, onboarding, and workflow design for Japanese law firms and in-house teams, tailored to local practice areas and bilingual (JP/EN) environments.
• Work cross-functionally with global Legal Engineering and Product to translate Japanese customer feedback into roadmap input, feature priorities, and localization requirements.
• Own headcount planning, hiring, and onboarding for Legal Engineers and Legal Engineering Product Specialists in Japan, ensuring the right mix of legal expertise, product aptitude, and customer-facing skills.

Requirements

• Substantial experience practicing law in Japan (or with Japanese clients), with a strong understanding of how leading Japanese firms and in-house teams operate.
• Proven experience managing or leading legal, client-facing, or technical-specialist teams, including responsibility for hiring, performance management, and coaching.
• Demonstrated ability to build and scale a function or team, ideally in a high-growth, technology, or innovation-oriented environment.
• Deep interest in legal technology and AI, with enough product aptitude to guide Legal Engineers and Legal Engineering Product Specialists on demos, workflow design, and customer enablement.
• Professional fluency in Japanese and English, with the ability to manage a bilingual team and engage credibly with senior stakeholders in both languages.