Legal Engineer

The role

Legal Engineers bridge customers, sales, and product to support sales strategy and product development. You will work with lawyers in Japan to uncover workflow pain points and translate feedback into product direction.

What you will do

• Work with lawyers at current and prospective customers in Japan to uncover workflow pain points and recommend solutions.
• Serve as the voice of the customer by translating feedback into product direction.
• Partner with product, engineering, sales, and marketing to shape the product roadmap.
• Build and refine product demonstrations and workflows in Japanese and English.
• Introduce new capabilities tailored to each customer.
• Provide competitive and market intelligence on the Japanese and wider APAC legal tech landscape.
• Lay the foundation for Harvey's presence in Japan.

Required qualifications

• Based in Tokyo and eligible to work in Japan.
• Qualified Japanese lawyer (弁護士) registered with the Japan Federation of Bar Associations (日本弁護士連合会).
• At least 3 years of experience as a qualified lawyer at a top-tier Japanese law firm and/or in-house.
• Fluency in Japanese and English.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment and make well-reasoned recommendations.
• Ability to operate across legal, product, and sales contexts.
• Executive presence and relationship-building skills.

Nice to have

• Sales, customer-facing, or law firm business development experience

About the company

Harvey is transforming how legal and professional services operate by combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise.