Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Harvey sits in a distinct corner of the SaaS ecosystem where enterprise software, agentic AI, and regulated workflows intersect. The Legal Engineer role reflects a common pattern in modern SaaS: category-defining products often need domain specialists who can translate complex customer realities into credible product adoption, especially when end users are senior professionals and the stakes of accuracy and trust are high.
From a SaaS career perspective, this position builds a durable toolkit at the boundary of go-to-market and product. It develops fluency in discovery-led selling, workflow-based demonstrations, and the mechanics of earning internal consensus across stakeholders. Just as importantly, it creates a pathway to influence product direction through structured customer feedback, a form of leverage that becomes increasingly valuable as SaaS companies scale their customer base and broaden use cases.
This role is best suited to professionals who enjoy being customer-facing while staying close to how software is built and improved. It favors those who can move between legal nuance and product narratives, and who are comfortable operating as a specialist partner to sales, marketing, and product teams. It also fits candidates motivated by applied AI in knowledge work rather than purely traditional legal practice.
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 58+ 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’s Legal Engineers are skilled lawyers from top-tier law firms and in-house legal teams who apply their legal experience to ensure that current and prospective customers understand how Harvey’s solutions enhance specific day-to-day workflows, working alongside Harvey’s Account Executives to support all aspects of our sales strategy.
Legal Engineers build consultative relationships with law firm partners and associates and in-house lawyers at financial institutions and Fortune 500 companies, becoming trusted advisors on how Harvey’s AI solutions can make them more effective.
Legal Engineers secure the “legal win” by performing in-depth customer discovery and education on Harvey’s solutions through targeted meetings and demos that resonate with the customer’s day-to-day workflows specific to their legal practice area. Utilizing their experience practicing law and their legal mindset, Legal Engineers ask thoughtful questions to understand the needs of law firms and in-house lawyers, develop credibility, and then partner with Account Executives to educate them on Harvey’s value via large and small group sessions as well as one-to-one conversations.
What You'll Do
Engage with lawyers at existing and prospective customers to understand and address their workflow challenges, and then explain and demonstrate the value of Harvey’s AI solutions to address them.
Establish yourself as a credible expert in solving customers’ specific legal problems (e.g. researching public and private databases for certain types of information, drafting and analyzing contractual provisions and whole documents, analyzing briefs and filings, corporate governance, conducting due diligence).
Lead product demonstrations tailored to the context of various law firm practice groups and in-house legal teams, asking questions to validate how Harvey can add value and then showcasing Harvey’s features and benefits relevant to each prospective client’s potential use cases.
Partner with the marketing team to develop content that will resonate with lawyers, tailored to the unique needs of their practice areas and client types.
Work hand in hand with product managers and engineers to guide product vision, troubleshoot use cases, develop solutions, and make the product more lawyer-friendly
Act as the “Voice of the Customer,” using your legal perspective to help the broader sales team to develop and implement more effective strategies and synthesize customer feedback for the product team through a legal lens.
Tailor the introduction of new solutions to specific customer needs.
Further the market perception of Harvey as uniquely credible, substantive, and helpful in applying its AI solutions to make lawyers better at their jobs.
Conduct research and analysis on customers and competitors.
What You'll Have
JD or equivalent legal qualification.
At least 3 years of experience practicing law at a top-tier law firm (Vault 50 or equivalent) and/or in-house experience
Executive engagement skills and presence, with an ability to establish strong relationships with key decision makers and build credibility at all levels.
Outstanding presentation skills to both legal and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos.
Strong understanding of legal processes and challenges faced by legal professionals.
Curiosity about AI’s potential to transform the legal industry.
Sales or customer-facing experience, including law firm business development and/or secondment, is a plus, as is experience directly managing law firm client matters and client relationships.
Compensation Range
$270,000 - $320,000 USD OTE 70/30 split
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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
