Lead Commercial Attorney, EMEA

Harvey is a secure AI platform for professionals in law, tax, and finance 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 $200 million from strategic investors including Sequoia, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and the OpenAI Startup Fund.

• 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: $0-30M ARR in the last 18 months.

• Value: Top of market cash and equity compensation.

We are looking for a highly skilled lawyer to join our legal team as our first UK-based in-house lawyer.  Reporting to the Deputy General Counsel in New York, you will primarily interface with our Go-To-Market team to help ensure the fast, efficient execution of our agreements with customers, and you will also have exposure to product and employment issues as our first “boots-on-the-ground” in-house lawyer in the UK.  

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

• Help establish the legal function in the EU and UK, laying down a strong substantive, organizational and relationship foundation for the legal presence in the region

• Work on product-related legal issues as they arise 

• Hire and manage others in the region as we expand

• UK lawyer with 7+ years experience, both with the commercial or technology division of a leading private practice law firm, and subsequently 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

• Experience with product employment, and privacy issues is a plus, as is experience building and managing teams and working internationally with US-based leadership

•  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.

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.