Practice Lead, In-house Transformation

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

This role is for a Practice Lead within the Transformation Office at Harvey, focusing on helping enterprise in-house legal teams adopt and integrate AI. The role involves advising clients on AI strategy, designing and leading transformation programs, and building operational infrastructure for AI adoption. It requires deep legal and in-house experience combined with an understanding of AI's impact on the legal industry.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as a trusted transformation advisor to Harvey's most strategic in-house clients and prospects, embedding directly in their world to understand how they operate, where AI can move the needle, and what it will take to get there.
  2. Draw on the full range of Harvey's capabilities — sales, legal engineering, customer success, legal innovation, and product — to connect the right assets and expertise to each organization's unique challenges and opportunities.
  3. Design and lead end-to-end AI transformation programs covering use case prioritization, executive alignment, rollout planning, governance, and success measurement, spanning all facets of organizational change: Technology, Skills, Communications, Structures, and Governance.
  4. Help legal department leaders translate complex AI capability into clear, actionable strategies that make sense for each organization's size, structure, business context, and ambitions.
  5. Build and own the operational infrastructure of this practice: repeatable transformation playbooks, executive workshop formats, value realization frameworks, and function-specific benchmarks that allow Harvey to scale high-quality transformation support across in-house teams worldwide.

Skills

Required

  • JD or equivalent legal qualification
  • 12+ years of experience practicing law at a top-tier law firm
  • Subsequent experience on an in-house legal team at a leading enterprise organization
  • Deep understanding of how in-house legal teams operate
  • Strong point of view on where AI is taking the legal industry
  • Empathy and communication skills
  • Executive presence and client credibility
  • Proven ability to build from the ground up
  • Comfort with data-informed decision-making
  • High-agency operating style

What the JD emphasized

  • AI transformation programs
  • AI expertise
  • AI capability
  • AI adoption