Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Commercial legal leadership remains a defining function in SaaS companies selling enterprise software, where revenue is closely tied to contract velocity, security posture, and clear allocation of risk. This role stands out because it sits directly on the interface between a SaaS go to market motion and the legal frameworks that make high volume, complex subscriptions workable, particularly in an AI product context where customer expectations around data use and liability are still evolving.
For a SaaS career, the durable value here is learning how repeatable commercial processes are built and governed at scale. Managing a team while also negotiating deals creates a practical view of how legal operations, sales enablement, and product and security stakeholders coordinate to remove friction without weakening protections. Experience shaping playbooks, training, and internal resources transfers well across SaaS businesses that rely on standardized contracting to support predictable growth.
This position tends to fit a lawyer who prefers being embedded with cross functional partners rather than operating as a back office reviewer. It also suits someone ready to balance people leadership with individual contribution, and who enjoys bringing structure to ambiguous, emerging issues common in AI and modern SaaS contracting.
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
