Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Commercial legal leadership roles are increasingly central in SaaS, where revenue velocity depends on how well contracting, security posture, and product realities translate into workable customer terms. This listing stands out because it sits at the intersection of enterprise AI software and high-volume commercial execution, a combination that tends to surface novel issues around data use, IP, and evolving buyer expectations. The hybrid New York setup also signals proximity to major enterprise customers and deal desks that shape SaaS contracting norms.
For a long-term SaaS career, this kind of role builds durable leverage: negotiating repeatable SaaS terms, creating internal enablement, and setting patterns that scale across a growing customer base. Managing a commercial legal function while still closing deals also develops the operator skill set that many SaaS legal leaders need, namely balancing risk, speed, and cross-functional alignment with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Security.
This role is best suited to a seasoned commercial lawyer who prefers ownership over narrow specialization and is comfortable setting direction through templates, training, and decision frameworks. It will fit someone who enjoys being close to go-to-market motion and can translate complex technology into clear contractual positions without relying on heavy process.
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
We are looking for a lawyer and manager to join Harvey’s Legal Department to lead a team in our Commercial Legal group. You will manage and mentor a high-functioning team with a healthy culture, close your own deals (we are a “roll up your sleeves” culture), and will interface with our go-to-market, business and cross-functional teams (including Engineering, Product and Security) to help ensure the fast, efficient execution of our agreements with customers.
What You'll Do
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:
Manage and mentor a high-functioning team with a healthy culture
Draft, review, and negotiate commercial AI SaaS contracts and other technology and AI-related agreements
Provide training and develop resources in support of our sales and other cross-functional teams
We are a small, but growing company, and one of the best things about working in such an environment is that there is lots of opportunity to pick up other aspects of the legal work that supports our company. While the principal job will be as described above, there will be ample opportunities to broaden your wheelhouse here at Harvey!
This role is Remote or based in New York, N.Y. or San Francisco, CA. For in office roles, we use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week.
What You Have
A law degree from an accredited law school
Admitted to practice law and in good standing in at least one jurisdiction and able to practice in California or New York
7+ years of law firm and/or in-house experience
Experience as a manager of a commercial team supporting technology deals, including supporting sales teams closing a high volume of complex SaaS deals at speed.
Transactional background, including with SaaS, technology, and/or IP licensing and 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
Ninja-like project management skills
Bonus qualifications include experience with AI, and a love for solving hard problems with a small tight-knit team.
Compensation
$213,000 - $288,000 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
