Legal Engineer

Harvey Harvey · AI Frontier · New York, NY · Go to Market

Harvey is seeking a Legal Engineer to bridge the gap between their AI solutions and legal professionals. This role involves understanding customer workflows, demonstrating Harvey's AI capabilities, and acting as a trusted advisor. The Legal Engineer will partner with sales and product teams, providing customer feedback and guiding product vision. The ideal candidate has a legal background with experience in top-tier law firms and a curiosity about AI's potential in the legal industry.

What you'd actually do

  1. Engage with lawyers at existing and prospective customers to understand and address their workflow challenges, and then explain and demonstrate the value of Harvey’s AI solutions to address them.
  2. Establish yourself as a credible expert in solving customers’ specific legal problems (e.g. researching public and private databases for certain types of information, drafting and analyzing contractual provisions and whole documents, analyzing briefs and filings, corporate governance, conducting due diligence).
  3. Lead product demonstrations tailored to the context of various law firm practice groups and in-house legal teams, asking questions to validate how Harvey can add value and then showcasing Harvey’s features and benefits relevant to each prospective client’s potential use cases.
  4. Partner with the marketing team to develop content that will resonate with lawyers, tailored to the unique needs of their practice areas and client types.
  5. Work hand in hand with product managers and engineers to guide product vision, troubleshoot use cases, develop solutions, and make the product more lawyer-friendly

Skills

Required

  • JD or equivalent legal qualification.
  • At least 3 years of experience practicing law at a top-tier law firm (Vault 50 or equivalent) and/or in-house experience
  • Executive engagement skills and presence, with an ability to establish strong relationships with key decision makers and build credibility at all levels.
  • Outstanding presentation skills to both legal and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos.
  • Strong understanding of legal processes and challenges faced by legal professionals.
  • Curiosity about AI’s potential to transform the legal industry.

Nice to have

  • Sales or customer-facing experience, including law firm business development and/or secondment, is a plus, as is experience directly managing law firm client matters and client relationships.

What the JD emphasized

  • At least 3 years of experience practicing law at a top-tier law firm (Vault 50 or equivalent) and/or in-house experience