Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Strategic Business Development Lead role sits at a familiar inflection point in SaaS: translating a complex, enterprise-grade product into credible, workflow-specific value for a regulated profession. Harvey operates in legal and professional services, where adoption depends less on broad narratives and more on practitioner trust, domain fluency, and clear proof of impact. The remit reflects a category being defined in real time, with customer conversations shaping how AI platforms are positioned and understood.
For a SaaS career, the role builds durable experience at the intersection of go-to-market and product learning. Working alongside Account Executives while acting as a “voice of the customer” creates exposure to enterprise discovery, stakeholder mapping, and the craft of turning nuanced use cases into repeatable demos and messaging. The emphasis on tailoring sessions across practice areas also develops a transferable pattern for selling horizontal platforms into vertical workflows.
This position best fits someone who prefers consultative, high-context work and can move between detailed problem diagnosis and executive-level communication. It suits professionals who want customer-facing ownership without being purely quota-defined, and who are motivated by applying domain expertise to shape how a SaaS product lands in a demanding end market.
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
Harvey’s Strategic Business Development Leads are skilled lawyers from top-tier law firms who apply their legal experience to ensure that current and prospective customers understand how Harvey’s solutions enhance specific day-to-day workflows, working alongside Harvey’s Account Executives to support all aspects of our sales strategy. Strategic Business Development Leads build consultative relationships with law firm partners and associates and in-house attorneys at private equity firms and Fortune 500 companies, becoming trusted advisors on how Harvey’s AI solutions can make them more effective.
Similar to how Solutions Architects secure the “technical win” in the sales process, Strategic Business Development Leads secure the “legal win” by performing in-depth customer discovery and education on Harvey’s solutions through targeted meetings and demos that resonate with the customer’s day-to-day workflows specific to their legal practice area.
Strategic Business Development Leads utilize their experience practicing law and their legal mindset to ask thoughtful questions to understand the needs of law firm and in-house attorneys, develop credibility, and then partner with Account Executives to educate them on Harvey’s value via large and small group sessions as well as one-to-one conversations.
What You'll Do
Engage with lawyers at existing and prospective customers to understand and address their workflow challenges, and then explain and demonstrate the value of Harvey’s AI solutions to address them.
Establish yourself as a credible expert in solving customers’ specific legal problems (e.g. researching public and private databases for certain types of information, drafting and analyzing contractual provisions and whole documents, analyzing briefs and filings, corporate governance, conducting due diligence).
Lead product demonstrations tailored to the context of various law firm practice groups and in-house legal teams, asking questions to validate how Harvey can add value and then showcasing Harvey’s features and benefits relevant to each prospective client’s potential use cases.
Partner with the marketing team to develop content that will resonate with lawyers, tailored to the unique needs of their practice areas and client types.
Act as the “Voice of the Customer,” using your legal perspective to help the broader sales team to develop and implement more effective strategies and synthesize customer feedback for the product team through a legal lens.
Tailor the introduction of new solutions to specific customer needs.
Further the market perception of Harvey as uniquely credible, substantive, and helpful in applying its AI solutions to make lawyers better at their jobs.
Conduct research and analysis on customers and competitors.
What You Have
JD or equivalent legal qualification.
At least 3 years of experience practicing law at a top-tier law firm (Vault 50 or equivalent), preferably with a corporate law or litigation focus.
Executive engagement skills and presence, with an ability to establish strong relationships with key decision makers and build credibility at all levels.
Outstanding presentation skills to both legal and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos.
Strong understanding of legal processes and challenges faced by legal professionals.
Curiosity about AI’s potential to transform the legal industry.
Sales or customer-facing experience, including law firm business development and/or secondment, is a plus, as is experience directly managing law firm client matters and client relationships.
Compensation Range
$200,000 - $300,000 USD OTE 70/30 split
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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
