Practice Lead, Law Firm Transformation

Harvey Harvey · AI Frontier · San Francisco, CA · Go to Market

This role is for a Practice Lead within Harvey's Transformation Office, focused on partnering with law firms to implement and transform their operations using AI. The role involves advising clients on AI strategy, designing and leading AI transformation programs, and building operational infrastructure for the practice. It requires deep understanding of the legal industry, AI capabilities, and organizational change management.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as a trusted transformation advisor to Harvey's most strategic law firm 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 firm'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 firm leaders translate complex AI capability into clear, actionable strategies that make sense for each firm's size, structure, practice mix, and ambitions.
  5. Build and own the operational infrastructure of this practice: repeatable transformation playbooks, executive workshop formats, value realization frameworks, and practice area benchmarks that allow Harvey to scale high-quality transformation support across firms worldwide.

Skills

Required

  • JD or equivalent legal qualification
  • 12+ years of experience practicing law at a top-tier law firm
  • subsequent experience at a top-tier management consulting firm with a focus on enterprise transformation, organizational change, or professional services strategy
  • Deep understanding of the business of law
  • Executive presence and client credibility
  • Proven ability to build from the ground up
  • Strong point of view on where AI is taking the legal industry
  • Comfort with data-informed decision-making
  • High-agency operating style

Nice to have

  • AI expertise
  • legal engineering
  • customer success
  • legal innovation
  • product
  • sales
  • marketing
  • governance
  • success measurement
  • Technology, Skills, Communications, Structures

What the JD emphasized

  • deep domain expertise
  • enterprise-grade platform
  • frontier agentic AI
  • deep AI expertise
  • legal industry experience
  • AI transformation programs
  • organizational change
  • complex AI capability
  • AI is taking the legal industry
  • data-informed decision-making
  • usage and business impact
  • fast-moving, ambiguous, early-stage environment
  • simple, scalable approaches