Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Privacy and AI Counsel role stands out in SaaS because it sits at the intersection of enterprise software contracting, global privacy compliance, and emerging AI regulation. For a platform business serving many customers across jurisdictions, privacy and AI governance are not side concerns; they shape how products are built, how data is handled, and how commercial terms are structured at scale.
From a SaaS career perspective, the position offers durable exposure to the operating mechanics of modern software companies: negotiating DPAs, translating regulatory change into repeatable internal programs, and partnering with product, engineering, security, and go to market teams. That mix builds a portfolio of experience that remains relevant across SaaS categories, particularly as customer procurement and regulatory scrutiny increasingly focus on data practices and AI system risk.
This role is best suited to a counsel who prefers cross functional work and can move between detailed drafting and pragmatic policy design. It will fit someone motivated by building frameworks that can be reused across products and customer segments, and who is comfortable advising on ambiguous questions where legal, technical, and commercial considerations meet.
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
Harvey’s in‑house legal team is a global group of lawyers and legal professionals operating across multiple disciplines. As we continue to expand, we are looking for a privacy lawyer to join our growing legal team. You will play a key role, working directly with our Head of Privacy, in maintaining and promoting a culture of privacy and security within the organization. In this role you will collaborate closely with legal colleagues in the commercial team and our sales/ Go-To-Market team, advise the engineering and product teams to ensure that our business practices adhere to privacy laws and regulations globally, and partner closely with the security function to safeguard and maintain the integrity of our data.
What You'll Do
Assist in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating Data Processing Agreements with our customers, subprocessors, service providers, and third-parties.
Help develop, maintain, and scale global privacy programs. This includes preparing Data Protection Impact Assessments to identify and mitigate privacy risks and Records of Processing in accordance with regulatory requirements.
Work cross functionally with talented product and engineering teams in evaluating the impact of privacy and data protection laws and regulatory guidance on exciting product developments.
Monitor and respond to changes in privacy laws and regulations, including AI regulations.
Support implementation and ongoing compliance with AI-specific regulation, including the CCPA governance framework, and related guidance.
Assist in classification of AI systems, assessment of risk obligations, and development of internal AI governance controls, documentation, and processes.
Partner with legal, product, and compliance stakeholders on AI principles such as transparency, accountability, and human-oversight.
What You Have
Qualified lawyer with 8+ years of post-qualification experience in privacy and data protection
Proven expertise in U.S. and E.U. data protection law, with familiarity across global compliance frameworks
Excellent drafting and negotiation skills, with the confidence to represent Harvey on matters relating to data privacy, AI, and security
Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across legal and business teams
Highly responsive and detail-oriented, with the ability to balance strategic thinking and hands-on execution
Compensation
$210,000 - $265,000
Depending on your location, an Applicant Privacy Notice may apply to you. You can find all of our Applicant Privacy Notices [here].
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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
