# Head of AMER Legal Engineering (In-House)

**Company**: Harvey
**Location**: New York
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $400,000 - $450,000 USD OTE 75/25
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Compensation

The salary range for this role is $400,000 - $450,000 USD, with an OTE of 75/25. Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in our equity plan and benefits program. Benefits include comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits (401k match up to 4%), and flexible PTO.

## Why Harvey

At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate. By combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise, we’re reshaping how critical knowledge work gets done for decades to come.

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.

## Role Overview

Reporting to the VP, Legal Engineering & Regulatory Investigations, you will lead Harvey's Legal Engineering In-House focused teams Legal Engineering in the Americas.

You will directly manage Legal Engineering Managers and oversee the teams focused on supporting Harvey's pre-sales in-house customer engagements. This is a second-line leadership role focused on organizational leadership, operational excellence, and cross-functional execution.

## What You'll Do

- 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 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 and how Harvey partners with the world's leading corporate legal departments.

## What You Have

- 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, 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 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 department 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.

## Skills

### Required
- legal engineering
- leadership
- team management
- organizational skills
- communication skills
- strategic planning
- operational excellence
- cross-functional partnerships

### Nice to have
- legal technology
- professional services
- consulting
- legal innovation
- legal operations
- global team management

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