Head of Legal Engineering, Japan

The role

Build and manage a Japan-based team of Legal Engineers and Legal Engineering Product Specialists. Help Japanese law firms and in-house legal departments integrate Harvey into their daily workflows.

What you will do

• Build, lead and develop a high-performing Japan Legal Engineering team, with clear goals, coaching and career paths.
• Design the operating model for Legal Engineering in Japan, including coverage, engagement and collaboration with Sales, Customer Success and Product.
• Ensure the team delivers high-quality discovery, demos, onboarding and workflow design for Japanese law firms and in-house teams in bilingual (JP/EN) settings.
• Work with global Legal Engineering and Product to turn Japanese customer feedback into roadmap input, feature priorities and localization requirements.
• Own headcount planning, hiring and onboarding for Legal Engineers and Legal Engineering Product Specialists in Japan.

Required qualifications

• Substantial experience practicing law in Japan or with Japanese clients.
• Understanding of how leading Japanese firms and in-house teams operate.
• Proven experience managing or leading legal, client-facing or technical-specialist teams, including hiring, performance management and coaching.
• Demonstrated ability to build and scale a function or team.
• Deep interest in legal technology and AI, with enough product aptitude to guide demos, workflow design and customer enablement.
• Professional fluency in Japanese and English.

About the company

Harvey is transforming how legal and professional services operate by combining agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform and domain expertise. The company is scaling fast and has strong product-market fit and investor support.