Senior People Operations Generalist, EMEA
Job Summary
At Harvey were transforming how legal and professional services operate. By combining frontier agentic AI an enterprise-grade platform and deep domain expertise were 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. Were 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 Jobs Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information we believe simplicity is what scales and were never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive wed love to build with you.
At Harvey the future of professional services is being written today and were just getting started.
Were hiring a Senior People Operations Generalist to join our global People Operations team. Youll support our entire global population onboarding compliance day-to-day HR questions in true partnership with the rest of the team with work divided by focus area rather than by region. Youll also take on our global compliance programs almost like a program manager: building them maintaining them and continuously improving how they run as we scale into new countries.
Based in Ireland or the UK your experience and time zone will naturally make you the go-to person for EMEA and JAPAC coverage making calls in real time while the rest of the team is offline. Youll report to our Senior Manager People Operations and join a broader team of People Operations Generalists and Coordinators. This is a senior generalist role for someone who wants real ownership of a global function with the backing of a larger team behind them.
What Youll Do
Support the end-to-end employee lifecycle for our global population: onboarding changes leaves exits and everything in between as part of a global team with work divided by function and program rather than region alone
Own our global compliance programs like a program manager: build new processes maintain and improve existing ones (right-to-work statutory leave GDPR/data protection and more) and drive ongoing efficiency as we add countries
Serve as the primary point of contact for employees managers and external partners (brokers EOR providers government agencies) during EMEA/JAPAC hours given your time zone and regional expertise
Partner with global payroll and EOR platforms (Deel Remote or similar) to manage country-specific new hire and offboarding requirements worldwide
Build and maintain SOPs so global processes are documented and dont depend on tribal knowledge
Represent the broader People Ops team on EMEA/JAPAC matters using good judgment about what needs to wait for US hours and what doesnt
Partner cross-functionally with People Systems Legal IT Payroll and Workplace teams based in the US
What You Have
46 years of HR/People Ops experience ideally including time in a mature multi-country organization
Experience running compliance like a program: building maintaining and improving processes over time not just administering them
Strong hands-on knowledge of employment law and compliance in at least one region outside the US EMEA and/or JAPAC experience preferred given the time zone value it brings
Working knowledge of GDPR and HR data protection requirements
Experience with HRIS/payroll platforms such as Workday Deel or Remote
A track record of working independently across a global distributed team with good instincts about when to escalate and when to just handle it
A strategic mindset with a strong inclination for program and project management
Excellent written communication given the async nature of working across time zones
Comfort being the go-to point of contact for a region during your hours and the confidence to represent the function externally
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Harvey is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race gender sexual orientation gender identity/expression national origin disability age genetic information veteran status marital status pregnancy or related condition or any other basis protected by law.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Professional Class AI – Harvey is the platform built to meet the standards of the world’s leading professional service firms.