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UXR Operations Lead, AI

Harvey


Job Location:

San Francisco, CA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 120900 - 181300
Posted: 11 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 18 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

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

Harvey is building the future of AI for legal professionals and understanding our users is core to how we do that. Were looking for a strategic UXR Operations Lead to join our research function someone who is equally energized by running studies in managing our rolling research program and building the systems that make research run well such as procuring new tools evaluating vendors and setting up cross-functional processes. You will be building the connective tissue between research design product and our GTM functions during a period of rapid growth.

This role directly reports to the Head of User Research and focuses on accelerating the quality and speed at which Harvey ships user-centered AI products. You have the opportunity to co-create tooling or identify the right capabilities to strengthen our research practice. Youll partner closely with research and design leadership product operations and cross-functional stakeholders to define and implement the processes systems and tooling that keep research and customer insights running at peak efficiency. Its a rare opportunity to shape how a category-defining AI company operationalizes its design and research functions from the ground up.

What Youll Do

Operations (70%)

  • Design and implement end-to-end operational systems for research workflows from intake and participant recruitment to insight synthesis.

  • Own participant recruitment and panel management; build and maintain relationships with users prospects and legal professionals

  • Set up evaluate and manage the research repository and tech stack with a focus on AI-powered tooling: automated synthesis AI repository and intake systems and systematizing self-serve and rolling research to improves team velocity and institutional memory.

  • Develop templates intake processes and educational documentation to help the team run studies faster and more consistently.

  • Build scalable processes for budget and resource allocation capacity planning and project tracking.

  • Define success metrics and reporting frameworks that give leadership visibility into team health output quality research velocity and coverage gaps

  • Identify where AI reduces friction in the research workflow from recruitment to readout and implement or build those improvements.

Research (30%)

  • Provide guidance review and help coordinate rolling research schedules: Qualitative user interviews usability tests concept tests often on tight timelines.

  • Support repository of findings into clear actionable reports for cross-functional team discovery and use.

What You Have
  • 5 years in operations program management or a similar role supporting design research or product teams in a technology environment

  • Demonstrated ability to build processes and systems from scratch in fast-moving ambiguous environments

  • Experience early establishment of Research operations at a fast-growing company

  • Strong ability to navigate complexity with legal procurement and EPD GTM teams for process development

  • Strong cross-functional communicator with a track record of partnering effectively with creative technical and business stakeholders

  • Deep familiarity with research operations design operations or how design and UXR teams function at scale

  • Bias toward ownership: you take initiative drive projects to completion and maintain high standards without constant direction

  • Proficiency in project management and collaboration tools (Notion Dovetail etc.) with a systems-thinking approach

Nice to have

  • Experience with UserInterviews Sprig ListenLabs Lookback or similar

  • B2B or enterprise software research background

  • Familiarity with legal workflows or professional services

Compensation

$120900 - $181300

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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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Manager


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Professional Class AI – Harvey is the platform built to meet the standards of the world’s leading professional service firms.

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