Senior Commercial Counsel, Australia
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Job Summary
Why Harvey
At Harvey were transforming how legal and professional services operate not incrementally but end-to-end. 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. With 700 customers in 58 countries 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 is sharp motivated and deeply committed to the mission. We move fast operate with intensity and take real ownership of the problems we tackle from early thinking to long-term outcomes. We stay close to our customers from leadership to engineers and work together to solve real problems with urgency and care. If you thrive in ambiguity push for excellence and want to help shape the future of work alongside others who raise the bar we invite you to build with us.
At Harvey the future of professional services is being written today and were just getting started.
Role Overview
We are looking for a highly skilled lawyer to join our legal team as our first and foundational Australia-based in-house commercial lawyer. Reporting to the Deputy General Counsel in New York you will initially primarily interface with our Go-To-Market team to help ensure the fast efficient execution of our agreements with customers. As we expand you will recruit lead and mentor a small legal team in Australia that will focus on supporting our Go-To-Market initiatives and associated issues.
What Youll Do
Generative AI has the power to greatly change the world and directly impact how things get done. Harvey is at the forefront of this change and our mission is to make generative AI actionable and useful for our customers. This is a fast moving environment (we are a start-up!) that is serving some of the worlds most renowned law firms and professional organisations. And this role will put you in the center of all of this.
More specifically you will:
Draft review and negotiate commercial AI SaaS contracts and other technology and AI-related agreements
Help establish the legal function in Australia laying down a strong substantive organisational and relationship foundation for the legal presence in the region
Hire and manage others in the region as we expand
Provide training and develop resources in support of our sales and other cross-functional teams
What You Have
An experienced qualified lawyer with 7 years of commercial transactional experience gained in top-tier law firms and/or in-house roles. Skilled in negotiating SaaS and technology-related agreements with a strong understanding of privacy information security and intellectual property.
Experienced in supporting Go-To-Market teams on a range of commercial contracts and related business initiatives.
Transactional background including with technology and/or IP licensing commercial agreements
Experience with managing teams and working internationally with US-based leadership is a plus
Ability to think creatively function independently and work proactively in a fast-paced environment
Team-focused and collaborative work style; willingness to build expertise and solve new challenges in an evolving practice
Hyper-responsive and service-oriented attitude
Bonus qualifications include experience with AI and a love for solving hard problems with a small tight-knit team
Additional Information
Location: Sydney NSW (Hybrid with flexibility)
Work eligibility: Must have valid Australian work rights; Harvey does not currently offer visa sponsorship for this role
What We Offer
Be part of building something special as a founding member of our Sydney team
Structured hybrid working arrangement: 3 days in our Sydney office 2 days working from home
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We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities and requests can be made by emailing
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Forecasting
- Hyperion
- Cost Management
- Construction Estimating
- QlikView
- Bus Driving
- Analysis Skills
- HubSpot
- Salesforce
- Market Research
- negotiation
- Financial Planning
About Company
Professional Class AI – Harvey is the platform built to meet the standards of the world’s leading professional service firms.
