Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Harvey sits in a part of the SaaS ecosystem where product capability and regulatory scrutiny rise together: enterprise-grade, AI-driven software sold to sophisticated professional-services buyers. In that context, Product Counsel becomes a core product function, shaping how novel AI features are packaged, communicated, and governed across markets rather than serving as a back-office reviewer.
For a SaaS legal career, the role offers durable leverage. It builds fluency in the recurring challenges of modern subscription platforms, including privacy and data use, IP and model-related questions, product liability risk, and the translation of evolving AI regulation into practical product decisions. Working alongside product, engineering, and design also strengthens the craft of embedding legal judgment into roadmaps, launch processes, and customer-facing commitments, a skillset that transfers across B2B SaaS categories.
This position fits lawyers who prefer being close to product development cycles and who enjoy navigating ambiguity where precedents are still forming. It is well suited to someone ready to operate with autonomy, communicate clearly with non-legal stakeholders, and balance responsible risk-taking with shipping real software in an enterprise setting.
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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
We are looking for an experienced product attorney to join our legal team to help scale our Product Legal function. You will partner closely with our Engineering, Product, and Design teams, as well as other cross-functional stakeholders, to bring Harvey’s product vision to life.
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, in-house legal teams, and professional organizations. And this role will put you in the center of all of this.
More specifically, you will:
Partner cross-functionally to align legal guidance with business goals, including counseling our Product and Engineering teams on key legal issues related to B2B AI systems
Research and advise on regulatory frameworks to help design and enhance compliant AI-powered products
Partner with marketing teams to align product communications with legal and regulatory standards to support brand credibility and trust
Support key initiatives to further develop and mature the legal team’s capabilities and impact
Build communication styles that resonate with your teams to balance risk-taking with responsible development in a fast-moving environment
Have a strong sense of ownership, curiosity, and can demonstrate sound judgment in ambiguous situations.
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
4-5 years of legal experience, with a preference for a combination of both law firm and in-house experience
Demonstrated knowledge of laws and regulations relating to several of: artificial intelligence, intellectual property, privacy, product liability, marketing, and/or consumer protection
Experience advising clients on AI or technology-related legal matters in a product legal or tech transactions capacity
Ability to think creatively, function independently and work proactively in ambiguous situations without clear precedents
Team-focused and collaborative working style and willingness to build expertise to solve new challenges in an evolving practice
Hyper-responsive and service-oriented attitude
A love for solving hard problems in a fast-paced environment
Compensation
$200,000 - $250,000 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
