Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Commercial Counsel roles are a core part of how modern SaaS businesses turn product capability into scalable revenue, particularly when the offering sits at the intersection of software, data, and emerging AI use cases. This listing stands out because it is anchored in commercial contracting for an enterprise-grade platform, where customer expectations around security, usage rights, and risk allocation tend to be higher and contract positions can materially shape go-to-market motion.
For a SaaS-focused legal career, the day-to-day exposure implied here maps closely to the operating system of subscription software: repeatable deal patterns, procurement-driven negotiation cycles, and cross-functional decision making with Product, Engineering, and Security. Experience translating technical and regulatory constraints into contract language is broadly portable across SaaS categories, and it builds fluency in how revenue, product changes, and customer obligations interact over time.
This role is best suited to a counsel who prefers being close to commercial execution while still engaging with adjacent product and regulatory questions as they arise. It will likely appeal to someone comfortable working with minimal distance between legal and frontline teams, and who values building playbooks and internal guidance alongside negotiating individual agreements.
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 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 a lawyer to join our legal team to expand our commercial function as a founding office attorney in our new Chicago office. 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 Chicago, Illinois. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week.
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
4+ 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
$200,000-$270,000
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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
