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 1000 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 seeking a practical and solutions oriented Senior Employment Counsel to support our growing global workforce in EMEA and APAC. As the first employment counsel outside of the U.S. you will have the opportunity to make a profound impact on how we build employment programs globally. The ideal candidate pairs employment law expertise with the ability and willingness to contribute to other matters on our small but nimble legal team. This role reports to the Head of Corporate Legal.

What Youll Do

• Provide day-to-day counseling to the People team and other business partners on a range of EMEA and APAC employment law matters (e.g. hiring performance management compensation and benefits leaves of absence people data privacy internal investigations working time and employee relations)

• Develop implement and continuously improve scalable employment policies handbooks and training programs that support a growing global workforce.

• Partner with People team on internal investigations and manage employment litigation

• Draft and review employment-related agreements (e.g. offer letters separation agreements and contractor agreements).

• Support the global mobility team.

• Contribute to other corporate legal matters (e.g. global expansion and strategic transactions).

What You Have

• Qualification to practice law in Ireland or England/Wales

• 5 years of substantive employment law experience with at least one year spent in-house at a high-growth technology company.

• Proven EMEA employment legal expertise with the ability to flex on APAC jurisdictions

• Ability to think creatively function independently and work proactively in a fast-paced environment.

• Team-focused hyper-responsive and collaborative work style; willingness to build expertise and solve new challenges.

• Experience with employee privacy matters and equity compensation programs is a plus.

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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.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities and requests can be made by emailing

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