Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Executive recruiting is a leverage point in SaaS companies building out leadership capacity, especially when a product category is evolving quickly. This listing stands out because it sits at the intersection of a platform business and an emerging AI-driven workflow shift, where senior hires materially influence go-to-market execution, product direction, and customer outcomes across regions.
For a SaaS career, the role offers durable exposure to how scaling companies professionalise hiring at the top of the org chart: defining success profiles, translating business priorities into search strategies, and building repeatable pipelines. The emphasis on market mapping, talent intelligence, and process/metrics also aligns with how modern SaaS teams run recruiting as an operational function—skills that carry across high-growth software environments and different functional domains.
This role is best suited to recruiters who prefer high-stakes stakeholder partnership and enjoy working through ambiguity in senior-level searches. It will fit someone who is comfortable balancing relationship-led work with rigorous research, and who wants to deepen expertise in executive assessment, candidate experience, and search execution within a product-led technology company.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Why Harvey
At Harvey, we’re 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, we’re 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 700+ customers in 58+ countries, strong product-market fit, and world-class investor support, we’re 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 we’re just getting started.
Role Overview
We’re building category defining AI products for legal professionals and the market is moving fast.
Harvey is looking for an experienced Executive Recruiter to support and scale our senior leadership hiring across functions and regions. Reporting to the Head of Executive Recruiting, you will partner closely with founders, executives, and VPs to attract and hire exceptional leadership talent from department heads to senior executives.
This role is highly visible and impactful, combining deep relationship building, rigorous research, and operational excellence. You will help deliver best in class executive hiring while contributing to the continued evolution of Harvey’s leadership recruiting strategy and processes.
What You'll Do
Own and drive end to end executive and senior leadership searches across the organization.
Partner with founders, executives, and hiring leaders to define role scope, success profiles, and hiring strategy.
Build and maintain diverse, high quality leadership pipelines through proactive sourcing, networking, and market mapping.
Deliver a thoughtful, white glove candidate experience for senior level candidates.
Collaborate with the Head of Executive Recruiting and other recruiters to align on priorities, strategy, and execution.
Manage and partner with external search firms when appropriate.
Contribute to scalable processes, tools, and metrics for executive hiring.
Provide market insights and talent intelligence to leadership to inform hiring decisions.
What You Have
6–10+ years of executive recruiting experience, ideally with a combination of search firm/agency and in house experience.
Proven success hiring senior leaders in high growth, global, or technology-driven companies.
Strong research and sourcing capabilities, including the ability to identify and engage hard to reach executive talent.
Solid understanding of executive compensation, assessment methodologies, and closing strategies.
Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience partnering closely with C-level leaders.
Highly organized and data driven, with the ability to manage multiple complex searches simultaneously.
Comfort operating in fast paced, evolving environments and contributing to process improvement.
Compensation Range
$157,000 - $213,000 USD
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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 accommodations@harvey.ai
