Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Employment Counsel role stands out in the SaaS landscape because it sits at the intersection of product-led scale and workforce complexity. With an enterprise software business operating across countries and a hybrid setup in New York, the legal function becomes a core enabling layer for execution, not a back-office reviewer. The remit touches the practical realities of supporting a global customer base through a growing internal organization.
For a SaaS legal career, the work builds durable pattern recognition around how high-growth software companies operationalize employment law at volume. Developing repeatable policies, training, and handbooks maps closely to how SaaS companies standardize processes as headcount expands. Experience spanning employee relations, investigations, litigation management, and immigration also translates well across the ecosystem, where cross-border hiring and contractor usage are common.
This position fits counsel who prefers being embedded with People and business partners and who values giving pragmatic, time-sensitive guidance. It also suits someone comfortable switching between strategic policy design and case-based problem solving, and who wants an in-house seat where employment risk management is tied directly to scaling operations.
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.
EMPLOYER: HARVEY AI CORPORATION
TITLE: Senior Employment Counsel
Location: 315 Park Ave S, Floor 5, New York, NY 10010; WFH 2 days/week; In office 3 days/week.
Salary Range: 40 hours/week; $235,000 - $275,000/year
Job Description: Providing day-to-day counselling to the People team and other business partners on a range of U.S. and international employment law matters (e.g., performance management, terminations, accommodations, wage-and-hour compliance, leaves of absence, contingent workforce matters, and employee relations). Developing, implementing, and continuously improving scalable employment policies, handbooks, and training programs that support a growing global workforce. Partnering with People team on internal investigations and manage employment litigation. Drafting and reviewing employment-related agreements (e.g., offer letters, separation agreements, and contractor agreements). Supporting all immigration matters; and Contributing to other corporate legal matters (e.g., global expansion and strategic transactions). WFH 2 days/week; In office 3 days/week.
Requirements: Juris Doctor or foreign degree equivalent in Law or related field and five (5) years of experience in Employment Law or related role in the job offered.
Experience and/or education must include:
Deep knowledge of U.S. federal and state employment law to advise on performance management, worker classification matters, terminations, benefit requests, leaves of absence and pay practices, and to mitigate regulatory and litigation risk.
Day-to-day employment counseling to provide practical, timely advice on employee relations, accommodations, terminations, and contingent workforce questions.
Experience with immigration matters to ensure compliance with global immigration laws and employ a global workforce.
Employment litigation management for employee relation matters and litigation casework including internal and external investigations.
Active bar membership.
Two (2) years of experience in-house at a high-growth technology company.
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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
