Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Strategic Finance Lead, Product role sits at a familiar pressure point in modern SaaS: translating product and engineering choices into durable unit economics. Harvey operates an enterprise platform with meaningful compute considerations, which makes finance partnership with Product and Engineering especially relevant in today’s AI-influenced SaaS landscape where gross margin, usage patterns, and infrastructure tradeoffs can shape roadmap decisions.
For a SaaS finance professional, the career value here is the chance to build repeatable frameworks that connect subscription and usage-based metrics to resourcing and product strategy. Owning contribution margin analysis, cloud and compute KPI definitions, and deal guardrails creates experience that travels well across SaaS businesses moving from product-market fit into more disciplined scaling. The remit also signals exposure to executive-level decision narratives, not just reporting.
This is best suited to someone who prefers ambiguous problems, enjoys cross-functional influence, and is comfortable being the finance voice in technical discussions. It fits a career stage where independent structuring, metric design, and stakeholder management matter as much as modeling, with an interest in how product architecture and go-to-market decisions show up in SaaS financial outcomes.
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
As a Strategic Finance Lead, Productat Harvey, you will own and shape the financial strategy for our product and engineering organization. Reporting to the Head of Strategic Finance, you will act as a senior thought partner to Engineering and Product leadership, driving rigorous decision-making around unit economics, product strategy, and resourcing as we scale toward a best-in-class financial profile.
What You’ll Do
Own and evolve the unit economics framework for Harvey’s products, setting the standard for contribution margin analysis and proactively identifying levers to improve long-term profitability and scalability
Serve as the primary finance partner to Engineering and Product leadership, shaping compute investment strategy, balancing speed, performance, and cost efficiency; influence roadmap and architectural decisions through data-driven insights
Define, operationalize, and continuously refine the core financial and operational metrics for cloud and compute, ensuring leadership has clear, actionable visibility into performance and tradeoffs
Partner closely with the Partnerships team to structure and evaluate strategic deals, setting guardrails and frameworks that ensure sustainable economics as the business scales
Drive operational excellence across finance-product workflows, upleveling processes, tools, and analytical rigor as the company grows
Mentor and uplevel other finance team members (as applicable), raising the overall bar for strategic thinking, analytical depth, and business partnership
What You Have
8+ years of progressive finance experience in investment banking, management consulting, or buy-side investing, combined with operational experience at a fast-paced, high-growth company
Proven track record as a senior cross-functional partner, influencing decisions with Engineering, Product, or Technical leadership
Exceptional analytical judgment and financial intuition, with the ability to translate complex data into clear narratives and recommendations for executives
Strong ownership mentality with a low-ego, high-drive approach and an uncompromising bar for quality
Comfort operating in ambiguity, independently structuring problems, prioritizing work, and driving outcomes in a fast-moving environment
Deep understanding of subscription and usage-based business models, including key SaaS and infrastructure-driven KPIs
Experience setting strategy and building frameworks, not just executing within them
Compensation Range
$200,000 - $270,000 USD
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