Harvey
Head of Legal Engineering, EMEA
London, Remote. Posted a month ago
The role
You will lead Legal Engineering teams across EMEA and manage Legal Engineering Managers. You will establish regional strategy and build systems to support pre-sales customer engagements.
What you will do
- Lead, develop, and scale a team of Legal Engineering Managers and their organizations.
- Build systems, processes, and operating mechanisms for customer outcomes at scale.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, and Operations to align priorities.
- Act as a trusted advisor to law firm and legal department leaders.
- Drive organizational performance through planning, resource management, and talent development.
- Help define the future of Legal Engineering.
Required qualifications
- Qualified lawyer with 12+ years of post-qualification experience (PQE).
- Experience practicing law at a top-tier law firm and/or in-house at a leading company.
- Significant client-facing experience.
- Experience leading managers and manager-led organizations.
- Success building and scaling high-performing teams in complex, fast-paced environments.
- Experience owning organizational systems, processes, and operating models.
- Ability to build strong cross-functional partnerships and drive results across multiple stakeholders.
- Track record of managing upward and influencing senior leaders.
- Experience representing an organization externally and building relationships with executive-level stakeholders.
- Deep understanding of law firms and enterprise legal teams including corporate, litigation, investigations, regulatory, compliance, and legal operations.
- Understanding of the evolving legal technology landscape.
- Exceptional communication, leadership, and organizational skills.
Nice to have
- Experience leading teams outside of a traditional law firm hierarchy.
- Experience in legal technology, professional services, consulting, legal innovation, legal operations, or other customer-facing organizations.
- Experience operating in a high-growth technology company.
- Experience leading globally distributed teams.
- Ability to create structure and drive execution in rapidly evolving environments.
- Experience working across multiple legal practice areas, including corporate, litigation, investigations, regulatory, compliance, and legal operations.
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.