About this role
Leading Harvey's Legal Engineering teams across EMEA involves shaping regional strategy, directing pre-sales customer engagements, and acting as a trusted advisor to law firm and legal department leaders. This second-line leadership role requires direct management of Legal Engineering Managers while partnering closely with Product, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, and Operations.
Harvey is scaling fast to transform how legal and professional services operate through frontier agentic AI and an enterprise-grade platform. The position exists to establish operational excellence and organizational systems that enable the legal engineering function to deliver exceptional customer outcomes at scale. A successful candidate brings deep legal industry expertise combined with strong business judgment and proven capability in leading manager-led organizations within fast-paced environments.
What you will 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 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.
What you need
- Qualified lawyer with 12+ years of post-qualification experience.
- 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.
- Deep understanding of law firms and enterprise legal teams including corporate, litigation, investigations, regulatory, compliance, and legal operations functions.
Nice to have
- 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
Skills and tech stack
Questions candidates ask
Who does this role report to?
You will report to the VP, Legal Engineering & Regulatory Investigations.
What is the primary focus of the role?
This is a second-line leadership role focused on organizational leadership, operational excellence, and cross-functional execution. You will directly manage Legal Engineering Managers and oversee the teams focused on supporting Harvey's pre-sales customer engagements.
What teams will I collaborate with?
You will partner closely with leaders across Product, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, and Operations to deliver exceptional outcomes for customers while helping shape the future of Legal Engineering at Harvey.