Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Harvey’s listing stands out in the SaaS ecosystem because it places privacy counsel directly alongside product, engineering, security, and go-to-market work in an AI-native enterprise platform. The remit spans both core SaaS data protection expectations (DPAs, subprocessors, global privacy programs) and the emerging governance questions created by deploying agentic AI at scale across multiple jurisdictions.
For a SaaS career, this role builds durable leverage: it develops fluency in how privacy requirements translate into product decisions, customer contracting, and operational controls. The mix of DPIAs, records of processing, and regulatory monitoring is the kind of repeatable toolkit that travels across modern SaaS companies, particularly those selling to enterprise buyers with structured security and compliance reviews. The explicit link to AI regulation also positions the role at the intersection of legal, risk, and product strategy as frameworks like the EU AI Act become part of standard procurement.
The role is best suited to a privacy lawyer who prefers cross-functional influence over purely advisory work, and who enjoys switching between detailed drafting and program-level thinking. It will fit someone motivated by building scalable governance in a global SaaS environment where customer commitments and product evolution move in parallel.
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 1000+ 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
Harvey’s in‑house legal team is a global group of lawyers and legal professionals operating across multiple disciplines. As we expand across EMEA, we are looking for a privacy lawyer to join our growing legal team. You will play a key role, working directly with our Head of Privacy, in maintaining and promoting a culture of privacy and security within the organization. In this role you will collaborate closely with legal colleagues in the commercial team and our sales/ Go-To-Market team, advise the engineering and product teams to ensure that our business practices adhere to privacy laws and regulations globally, and partner closely with the security function to safeguard and maintain the integrity of our data.
What You'll Do
Assist in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating Data Processing Agreements with our customers, subprocessors, service providers, and third-parties.
Help develop, maintain, and scale global privacy programs. This includes preparing Data Protection Impact Assessments to identify and mitigate privacy risks and Records of Processing in accordance with regulatory requirements.
Work cross functionally with talented product and engineering teams in evaluating the impact of privacy and data protection laws and regulatory guidance on exciting product developments.
Monitor and respond to changes in privacy laws and regulations, including AI regulations.
Support implementation and ongoing compliance with AI-specific regulation, including the EU AI Act, UK AI governance frameworks, and related guidance.
Assist in classification of AI systems, assessment of risk obligations, and development of internal AI governance controls, documentation, and processes.
Partner with legal, product, and compliance stakeholders on AI principles such as transparency, accountability, and human-oversight.
What You Have
Qualified lawyer with 4+ years of post-qualification experience in privacy and data protection
Proven expertise in EU and U.S. data protection law, with familiarity across global compliance frameworks
Excellent drafting and negotiation skills, with the confidence to represent Harvey on matters relating to data privacy, AI, and security
Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across legal and business teams
Highly responsive and detail-oriented, with the ability to balance strategic thinking and hands-on execution
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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
