Legal Engineering Manager, In-house (corporate)

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

This role manages a team of Legal Engineers who support sales efforts by demonstrating how Harvey's AI platform can transform legal work. It involves customer engagement, sales support, cross-functional collaboration with Product and Engineering, and informing product roadmap decisions. The role requires legal expertise, team management experience, and familiarity with legal tech and AI.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of Legal Engineers, setting a high bar for customer engagement, legal credibility, and commercial impact.
  2. Partner closely with Sales leadership and Account Executives to support strategic accounts, develop deal strategy, and drive successful customer outcomes.
  3. Oversee and support your team, as they engage in complex customer engagements by conducting discovery, leading product demonstrations, and advising customers on how Harvey can improve legal workflows across in-house legal teams.
  4. Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, including General Counsel, Deputy General Counsel, Chief Legal Officers, legal operations leaders, and other legal and business leaders.
  5. Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Applied Legal Research, Marketing, and Enablement to improve positioning, workflows, customer solutions, and go-to-market strategy.

Skills

Required

  • Qualified lawyer with 7+ PQE
  • significant experience practicing corporate law, commercial contracting, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, emerging companies and venture capital, capital markets, or other corporate transactional work, or advising on corporate governance, including experience working in-house.
  • prior experience managing a team
  • Deep familiarity with legal technology and AI tools
  • Strong understanding of the workflows, challenges, and priorities of in-house legal teams.
  • Strong commercial instincts
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Comfort operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
  • Strong point of view on the future of the legal industry and the impact of AI on legal services.

Nice to have

  • AI-assisted coding tools

What the JD emphasized

  • enterprise-grade platform
  • frontier agentic AI
  • legal credibility
  • commercial strategy
  • corporate legal background
  • in-house experience
  • managing a team
  • legal technology and AI tools
  • in-house legal teams
  • senior stakeholders
  • fast-paced, high-growth environment
  • future of the legal industry and the impact of AI on legal services