Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Commercial counsel roles are a core part of how modern SaaS companies monetize and de risk their products, and that is especially true when the offering sits at the intersection of enterprise software and AI. This position is notable because it is anchored in customer contracting while also touching product and security considerations that routinely shape adoption in regulated or risk sensitive buying environments. The remit signals a company operating at meaningful scale, with global customers and a need for repeatable contracting motion.
For a SaaS legal career, the long term value comes from learning how revenue, product, and compliance constraints meet in day to day execution. Negotiating SaaS agreements builds pattern recognition around common enterprise positions on data use, liability, procurement friction, and security review, all of which transfer across B2B software categories. The role also offers exposure to internal enablement through playbooks and training, which is often how legal teams increase throughput as go to market activity expands.
This role tends to suit counsel who enjoy being close to the commercial engine and who can balance speed with judgment across multiple stakeholders. It fits someone who wants a hybrid of hands on deal work and broader advisory touchpoints, and who is comfortable operating with autonomy in a smaller legal function.
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. 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 1500+ 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 moves fast, takes ownership, and is deeply committed to the mission — operating with intensity, staying close to our customers, and pushing each other for excellence. We live by three values: Decisiveness, Simplicity, and Job's Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information, we believe simplicity is what scales, and we're never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive, we'd love to build with you.
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 to join our legal team to expand our commercial function. You 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:
Draft, review, and negotiate commercial AI SaaS contracts and other technology and AI-related agreements
Provide regulatory and product counsel as needed
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, for lawyers interested in learning more about product counseling and IP law, there will be ample opportunities to broaden your wheelhouse here at Harvey!
This role is based in New York, NY or San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week, with a remote option available for candidates outside of these locations.
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
3+ years of law firm and/or in-house experience
Transactional background, including with SaaS, technology, and/or IP licensing and commercial agreements, and/or M&A transactions
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, supporting Go-To-Market/ Sales, and a love for solving hard problems with a small tight-knit team.
Compensation Range
$180,000 to $220,000 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
