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
Reporting to the VP, Legal Engineering & Regulatory Investigations, you will lead Harvey's Legal Engineering teams across EMEA. You will directly manage Legal Engineering Managers and oversee the teams focused on supporting Harvey's pre-sales customer engagements. This is a second-line leadership role focused on organizational leadership, operational excellence, and cross-functional execution.
Responsibilities
- Lead, develop, and scale a team of Legal Engineering Managers and their organizations serving Harvey's in-house customers.
- Build the systems, processes, and operating mechanisms that 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 across the business.
- Act as a trusted advisor to law firm and legal department leaders and an influential partner to senior stakeholders across Harvey.
- Drive organizational performance through effective planning, resource management, talent development, and operational excellence.
- Help define the future of Legal Engineering.
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer with 12+ years of post-qualification experience (PQE).
- Experience practicing law at a top-tier law firm and/or in-house at a leading company, with significant client-facing experience.
- Experience leading managers and manager-led organizations, not solely individual contributors.
- 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 law firms and 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading teams outside of a traditional law firm hierarchy.
- Experience in legal technology, professional services, consulting, legal innovation, legal operations, or other customer-facing organizations.
- Experience operating in a high-growth technology company.
- Experience leading globally distributed teams.
- Demonstrated ability to create structure and drive execution in rapidly evolving environments.
- Experience working across multiple legal practice areas, including corporate, litigation, investigations, regulatory, compliance, and legal operations.