Director, Commercial Legal, EMEA

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London, Greater London, England, GBR
Hybrid
Expert/Leader
Artificial Intelligence • Legal Tech • Professional Services • Software
The Role
Leads Harvey’s EMEA Commercial Legal function across the UK and EU. Responsibilities include managing and expanding the regional legal team, mentoring lawyers and managers, drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial AI SaaS contracts, supporting Go-To-Market teams, advising on technology, IP licensing, product, privacy, and competition matters, and collaborating with US-based leadership. The role also involves hiring, team development, and building scalable legal operations in a fast-paced technology company.
Summary Generated by Built In
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. We have 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

We are looking for a highly skilled solicitor to lead our EMEA Commercial legal team. Reporting to the Deputy General Counsel, you will primarily interface with our Go-To-Market team to help ensure the fast, efficient execution of our agreements with customers, and you will also have exposure to product, privacy and competition issues.

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:

  • Lead the international multi-office Commercial legal function in the UK and EU, continuing to build a strong substantive, organizational and relationship foundation for the legal presence in the region

  • Mentor and lead a high-functioning team (including managers) in the drafting, review, and negotiation Commercial AI SaaS contracts

  • Hire others in the region as we expand


What You Have
  • UK or Dublin-based solicitor with 12+ years experience, both with the commercial or technology division of a leading private practice law firm, and subsequently in-house with a technology company supporting SaaS or technology Go-To-Market or Business Development teams

  • Experience building and managing high-functioning teams

  • Transactional background, including with technology and/or IP licensing commercial agreements

  • Experience with government sales is a plus, as is working internationally with US-based leadership

  • 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

  • Bonus qualifications include experience with AI, and a love for solving hard problems with a small tight-knit team

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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 [email protected]

Skills Required

  • UK or Dublin-based solicitor
  • 12+ years of legal experience
  • Experience in the commercial or technology division of a leading private practice law firm
  • In-house experience with a technology company supporting SaaS, technology go-to-market, or business development teams
  • Experience building and managing high-functioning teams
  • Transactional experience with technology and/or IP licensing commercial agreements
  • Experience with government sales
  • Experience working internationally with US-based leadership
  • Ability to think creatively, work independently, and act proactively in a fast-paced environment
  • Team-focused and collaborative work style
  • Willingness to build expertise and solve new challenges
  • Hyper-responsive and service-oriented attitude
  • Experience with AI

Harvey Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Harvey and has not been reviewed or approved by Harvey.

  • Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, vision, mental health support, and fertility benefits. This breadth indicates robust health protections within the total rewards package.
  • Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is prominently offered with eligibility starting on day one. Family-building support complements leave policies to support different life stages.
  • Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is routinely positioned alongside competitive cash, with communications emphasizing pre-IPO upside. This signals meaningful access to ownership as part of compensation.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, California
373 Employees
Year Founded: 2022

What We Do

Harvey is a generative AI company backed by Sequoia and OpenAI's startup fund building the future of professional services.

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