Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Commercial counsel roles are often where SaaS business reality meets platform design, and this listing sits squarely in that intersection. The work centers on AI SaaS contracting and customer agreements, with close touchpoints across go to market, product, engineering, and security. That combination is especially relevant in today’s SaaS landscape, where procurement scrutiny, data handling expectations, and AI specific terms are increasingly shaping how products are packaged and sold.
For a legal professional building a SaaS career, the long term value is in becoming fluent in repeatable contract patterns that scale: enterprise MSAs, licensing constructs, and risk positions that can be operationalised through templates, playbooks, and internal training. Exposure to cross functional decision making also builds judgment around how commercial commitments map to product capabilities, security posture, and delivery processes, a core competency for senior in house trajectories in software.
This role is best suited to someone who prefers owning negotiations end to end while partnering closely with revenue and technical stakeholders. It aligns with counsel who enjoy systems thinking, crisp prioritisation, and translating complex product and risk topics into workable contract language, particularly in AI adjacent SaaS contexts.
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 anexperienced 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 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, there will be ample opportunities to broaden your wheelhouse here at Harvey!
This role has flexibility to either be based in New York, N.Y.; San Francisco, CA; Chicago, IL; or Dallas, TX on a hybrid work model of 3 days per week in the office, or fully remote if based in another location within the US.
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 Illinois
10+ years of law firm and/or in-house experience
Transactional background, including strong experience with complex SaaS, technology, and/or IP licensing and commercial agreements
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
$210,000-$265,000
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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
