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Director, Legal Engineering, EMEA

Harvey


Job Location:

London - UK

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 22 August 2026 (18 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 19 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Department:

Sales

Job Summary

Why Harvey

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.

Role Overview

Reporting to the VP Legal Engineering & Regulatory Investigations you will lead Harveys Legal Engineering teams across EMEA.

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

Success in this role requires exceptional people leadership strong business judgment and the ability to build systems and processes that enable teams to operate effectively at scale. 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.

What Youll Do
  • Lead develop and scale a team of Legal Engineering Managers and their organizations serving Harveys 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 Have
  • Qualified lawyer with 12 years of post-qualification experience (PQE).

  • 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.

  • 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 law firms and 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 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.

  • Experience working across multiple legal practice areas including corporate litigation investigations regulatory compliance and legal operations.

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


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