Privacy and AI Counsel

Why Harvey

At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate — not incrementally, but end-to-end. By combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise, we’re reshaping how critical knowledge work gets done for decades to come.

This is a rare chance to help build a generational company at a true inflection point. With 1000+ customers in 60+ countries, strong product-market fit, and world-class investor support, we’re scaling fast and defining a new category in real time. The work is ambitious, the bar is high, and the opportunity for growth — personal, professional, and financial — is unmatched.

Our team is sharp, motivated, and deeply committed to the mission. We move fast, operate with intensity, and take real ownership of the problems we tackle — from early thinking to long-term outcomes. We stay close to our customers — from leadership to engineers — and work together to solve real problems with urgency and care. If you thrive in ambiguity, push for excellence, and want to help shape the future of work alongside others who raise the bar, we invite you to build with us.

At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started.

Role Overview

Harvey’s in‑house legal team is a global group of lawyers and legal professionals operating across multiple disciplines. As we continue to expand, we are looking for a privacy lawyer to join our growing legal team. You will play a key role, working directly with our Head of Privacy, in maintaining and promoting a culture of privacy and security within the organization. In this role you will collaborate closely with legal colleagues in the commercial team and our sales/ Go-To-Market team, advise the engineering and product teams to ensure that our business practices adhere to privacy laws and regulations globally, and partner closely with the security function to safeguard and maintain the integrity of our data.

What You'll Do

• Assist in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating Data Processing Agreements with our customers, subprocessors, service providers, and third-parties.

• Help develop, maintain, and scale global privacy programs. This includes preparing Data Protection Impact Assessments to identify and mitigate privacy risks and Records of Processing in accordance with regulatory requirements.

• Work cross functionally with talented product and engineering teams in evaluating the impact of privacy and data protection laws and regulatory guidance on exciting product developments.

• Monitor and respond to changes in privacy laws and regulations, including AI regulations.

• Support implementation and ongoing compliance with AI-specific regulation, including the CCPA governance framework, and related guidance.

• Assist in classification of AI systems, assessment of risk obligations, and development of internal AI governance controls, documentation, and processes.

• Partner with legal, product, and compliance stakeholders on AI principles such as transparency, accountability, and human-oversight.

What You Have

• Qualified lawyer with 4+ years of post-qualification experience in privacy and data protection

• Proven expertise in U.S. and E.U. data protection law, with familiarity across global compliance frameworks

• Excellent drafting and negotiation skills, with the confidence to represent Harvey on matters relating to data privacy, AI, and security

• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across legal and business teams

• Highly responsive and detail-oriented, with the ability to balance strategic thinking and hands-on execution

Compensation

$179,000 - $241,000

Depending on your location, an Applicant Privacy Notice may apply to you. You can find all of our Applicant Privacy Notices [ here ].

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Harvey is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made by emailing [email protected]