# Head of Legal Engineering, Japan

**Company**: Harvey
**Location**: Tokyo
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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.

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## Skills

### Required
- Japanese
- English
- legal technology
- AI
- team management
- leadership

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