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Head Of Amer Legal Engineering (In-House)

harvey

Híbrido Dallas
Uncategorized

Job Score

80 pts
Hybrid model (+80)

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

Reporting to the VP, Legal Engineering & Regulatory Investigations, you will lead Harvey's Legal Engineering In-House focused teams Legal Engineering in the Americas.

You will directly manage Legal Engineering Managers and oversee the teams focused on supporting Harvey's pre-sales in-house customer engagements. This is a second-line leadership role focused on organizational leadership, operational excellence, and cross-functional execution.

Success in this role requires exceptional people leadership, strong business judgment, and the ability to build systems and processes that enable teams to operate effectively at scale. You will partner closely with leaders across Product, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, and Operations to deliver exceptional outcomes for customers while helping shape the future of Legal Engineering at Harvey.

What You'll Do

  • Lead, develop, and scale a team of Legal Engineering Managers and their organizations serving Harvey's in-house customers.

  • Build the systems, processes, and operating mechanisms that enable Legal Engineering to deliver exceptional customer outcomes at scale.

  • Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, and Operations to align priorities and drive execution across the business.

  • Act as a trusted advisor to legal department leaders and an influential partner to senior stakeholders across Harvey.

  • Drive organizational performance through effective planning, resource management, talent development, and operational excellence.

  • Help define the future of Legal Engineering and how Harvey partners with the world's leading corporate legal departments.

What You Have

  • Qualified lawyer with 9+ years of post-qualification experience (PQE).

  • Experience practicing law at a top-tier law firm (Vault 50 or equivalent) and/or in-house at a F500 or leading tech company, with significant client-facing experience.

  • Experience leading managers and manager-led organizations, not solely individual contributors.

  • Demonstrated success building and scaling high-performing teams in complex, fast-paced environments.

  • Experience owning organizational systems, processes, and operating models.

  • Proven ability to build strong cross-functional partnerships and drive results across multiple stakeholders.

  • Strong track record of managing upward and influencing senior leaders.

  • Experience representing an organization externally and building trusted relationships with executive-level stakeholders.

  • Deep understanding of enterprise legal teams, including corporate, litigation, investigations, regulatory, compliance, and legal operations functions, as well as the evolving legal technology landscape.

  • Exceptional communication, leadership, and organizational skills.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience leading teams outside of a traditional law department 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.

  • Demonstrated 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.

Compensation

$400,000 - $450,000 USD OTE 75/25

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We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made by emailing accommodations@harvey.ai

Dica do Especialista

Ferramentas de Automação para Profissionais de Finanças em 2026

A Revolução Silenciosa nas Finanças Corporativas

O mercado financeiro e a controladoria sempre foram movidos a dados. No entanto, com a complexidade dos negócios globais em 2026, o volume de informações processadas diariamente tornou impossível a análise puramente manual. Profissionais de finanças que ainda dependem exclusivamente de planilhas estáticas estão perdendo competitividade e precisão.

A adoção de ferramentas de automação deixou de ser um mero diferencial no currículo para se tornar um requisito de sobrevivência profissional, garantindo compliance, reduzindo erros humanos e liberando tempo para análises realmente estratégicas.

"A automação financeira não substitui o analista estratégico, mas substitui o analista que não sabe utilizar a automação a seu favor."

Principais Tecnologias e Softwares para Investir

Se você está planejando investir tempo (estudos) ou recursos financeiros em ferramentas de automação, estas são as tecnologias mais valorizadas atualmente pelos recrutadores e CFOs:

  • RPA (Robotic Process Automation): Softwares como UiPath e Automation Anywhere são líderes absolutos na automação de tarefas repetitivas. Eles são perfeitos para automatizar conciliação bancária, extração de dados de faturas e consolidação de balanços.
  • Linguagens Orientadas a Dados (Python): Aprender Python e dominar bibliotecas como Pandas e NumPy é o próximo passo para modelagem financeira avançada e análise preditiva, superando largamente as limitações de processamento do Excel.
  • Business Intelligence (BI) e IA: O Microsoft Power BI e o Tableau evoluíram com integrações massivas de Inteligência Artificial. Eles permitem a criação de dashboards dinâmicos que se atualizam sozinhos, eliminando a criação manual de relatórios de fechamento mensal.
  • iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service): Ferramentas como Make (antigo Integromat) e Zapier permitem que diferentes sistemas financeiros (ERPs, CRMs, gateways de pagamento) conversem entre si criando fluxos de dados automáticos, geralmente através de interfaces No-code/Low-code.

Dicas Práticas Antes de Investir em Automação

A empolgação com as novas tecnologias pode levar a gastos desnecessários. Antes de adquirir licenças empresariais caras ou iniciar longos treinamentos, siga estas diretrizes:

  1. Mapeie o Gargalo Primeiro: Não compre uma ferramenta procurando um problema. Identifique qual processo consome mais horas da sua equipe (ex: fechamento contábil, contas a pagar) e busque a solução específica para ele.
  2. Calcule o ROI da Ferramenta: O custo da licença de software e da implementação deve ser significativamente inferior ao custo das horas operacionais salvas.
  3. Avalie a Integração com Sistemas Legados: Verifique se a nova tecnologia possui APIs abertas ou conectores nativos que conversem facilmente com o ERP atual da sua empresa (como SAP, Oracle ou Totvs).
  4. Considere a Curva de Aprendizado: Soluções Low-code costumam ter uma adoção muito mais rápida e orgânica por equipes financeiras que não possuem um forte background em programação estruturada.

Conclusão

O futuro das finanças pertence aos profissionais que sabem construir pontes entre as regras de negócio e a tecnologia. Comece pequeno, automatize uma tarefa rotineira e escale gradativamente as soluções dentro do seu departamento.