Head of Legal Engineering, EMEA

About the role

This leadership position involves overseeing Harvey's Legal Engineering teams throughout the EMEA region. You will manage Legal Engineering Managers and guide teams that support pre-sales customer engagements. This is a second-line leadership role focused on organizational development, operational efficiency, and cross-functional execution.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Lead, develop, and expand a team of Legal Engineering Managers and their organizations serving Harvey's in-house customers.
• Create the systems, processes, and operational frameworks that enable Legal Engineering to deliver excellent customer outcomes at scale.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, and Operations to align priorities and drive business execution.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders in law firms and legal departments, and an influential partner to senior stakeholders within Harvey.
• Improve organizational performance through effective planning, resource allocation, talent development, and operational excellence.
• Contribute to defining the future direction of Legal Engineering.

Requirements

• Qualified lawyer with at least 12 years of post-qualification experience.
• Experience practicing law at a top-tier law firm or in-house at a leading company, with significant client interaction.
• Experience leading managers and organizations composed of managers, not solely individual contributors.
• Proven success in building and expanding high-performing teams in complex, fast-paced environments.
• Experience owning organizational systems, processes, and operating models.
• Demonstrated ability to build strong cross-functional partnerships and achieve results across multiple stakeholders.
• Strong history of managing upward and influencing senior leaders.
• Experience representing an organization externally and building trusted relationships with executive-level stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of law firms and 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 abilities.

Nice to have

• Experience leading teams outside of a traditional law firm structure.
• 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.

Skills & tools

• Not specified

Practical notes

• This is a hybrid workplace role.