Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This People Business Partner role sits at a common pressure point in modern SaaS: translating rapid product evolution into an operating model that teams can sustain. Supporting Product and Design inside an AI-driven, enterprise software business makes the remit especially relevant, since these functions tend to carry the highest load of prioritisation tradeoffs, cross-functional dependency management, and ongoing org design decisions.
For a SaaS-focused HR leader, the career value is in building fluency across the mechanisms that keep product organisations effective at scale. The work naturally strengthens judgment around team topology, leadership coaching, performance systems, and employee relations in contexts where roadmap changes and resourcing questions surface frequently. That experience transfers well across SaaS companies because it maps to recurring needs as product lines expand and technical organisations mature.
This is best suited to a People Business Partner who prefers close, embedded partnership with senior product and design leaders and is comfortable advising with incomplete information. It will fit someone who enjoys operating as a pragmatic operator, balancing individual nuance with organisational outcomes, and who wants to stay near how product decisions are made rather than working only through programs or policy.
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 60+ 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 is transforming how the world’s best legal professionals work. As we continue to scale, we’re looking for a People Business Partner to support our Product and Design teams, based in San Francisco, with the potential to support additional technical orgs over time.
In this role, you’ll partner closely with Product and Design leaders to help them build and scale high-performing, high-ownership teams. You’ll work side-by-side with leaders as they navigate growth, evolve their org structures, and operate in an environment where priorities shift quickly.
This role reports to the Head of People Business Partners and works closely with leaders across the technical org as well as the broader People team. The right person brings strong judgment, can quickly build credibility with technical leaders, and is comfortable operating in a fast-moving, often ambiguous environment.
What You'll Do
Partner deeply with Product and Design leaders
Work closely with leaders as they build and scale their teams, advising on org design, team structure, and how to operate effectively through rapid growth and change.
Coach and challenge leaders
Drive performance and accountability
Partner with managers on performance, feedback, and development, ensuring teams are operating at a high bar and addressing gaps quickly.
Navigate complex people situations
Stay close to the work
Develop a strong understanding of how Product, Design, and Engineering teams operate, from how decisions are made to where friction exists, and use that context to guide leaders effectively.
Operate in ambiguity
Help leaders navigate shifting priorities, evolving org structures, and new problem spaces, bringing clarity where things are not yet fully defined.
Help scale how we work
What You Have
6–10+ years of experience in a People Business Partner role, ideally supporting Product, Design, or Engineering teams.
Experience working with technical leaders - you understand how product and engineering organizations operate and can build credibility quickly.
Strong judgment and the ability to navigate ambiguity - you’re comfortable operating without perfect information and making decisions in real time.
Ability to influence and challenge senior leaders in a thoughtful and direct way.
Experience supporting org design, performance management, and team scaling in high-growth environments.
High emotional intelligence and strong communication skills, especially in complex or sensitive situations.
A pragmatic, no-drama approach - you focus on what works for the business and move things forward.
Ability to work from our San Francisco office at least three days per week.
Compensation
$165,400 - $248,200 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
