Commercial Counsel, EMEA

Harvey is a secure AI platform for legal and professional services that augments productivity and automates complex workflows. Harvey uses algorithms with reasoning-adept LLMs that have been customized and developed by our expert team of lawyers, engineers and research scientists. We’ve found product market fit and are scaling our team very quickly. Some reasons to join Harvey are:

• Exceptional product market fit: We have partnered with the largest law firms and professional service providers in the world, including Paul Weiss, A&O Shearman, Ashurst, O'Melveny & Myers, PwC, KKR, and many others.

• Strategic investors: Raised over $500 million from strategic investors including Sequoia, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and OpenAI.

• World-class team: Harvey is hiring the best talent from DeepMind, Google Brain, Stripe, FAIR, Tesla Autopilot, Glean, Superhuman, Figma, and more.

• Partnerships: Our engineers and researchers work directly with OpenAI to build the future of generative AI and redefine professional services.

• Performance: 4x ARR in 2024.

• Competitive compensation.

We are looking for a highly skilled lawyer to join our legal team as our second UK-based in-house lawyer.  Reporting to the Head of EMEA Legal in London, you will primarily interface with our Go-To-Market team to help ensure the fast and efficient execution of our agreements with customers.  

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 world’s most renowned law firms and professional organizations.  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

• Under the leadership of the Head of EMEA Legal, help to continue to establish the legal function in the EMEA, laying down a strong substantive, organizational and relationship foundation for the legal presence in the region

• Work on product-related and other legal issues as they arise 

• English qualified lawyer with 2+ years post qualification experience, either with the commercial or technology division of a leading private practice law firm and/or in-house with a technology company supporting SaaS or technology Go-To-Market or Business Development teams

• Transactional background, including with technology, and/or IP licensing commercial agreements

•  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

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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 in the early innings of a generational company. Joining early at a hypergrowth startup has proven to lead to exponential growth in responsibility, access, and ability. Apply here today!