Head of Legal Engineering, EMEA
London · 12+ years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Oct 9, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 12+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- London
About the role
- Reporting to the VP, Legal Engineering & Regulatory Investigations, you will lead Harvey's Legal Engineering teams across EMEA.
- This is a second-line leadership role focused on organizational leadership, operational excellence, and cross-functional execution.
- This role will take full responsibility for establishing and defining the regional strategy for Harvey's Legal Engineering function as we scale.
Responsibilities
- Lead, develop, and scale a team of Legal Engineering Managers and their organizations serving Harvey's in-house customers.
- Build the systems, processes, and operating mechanisms that enable Legal Engineering to deliver exceptional customer outcomes at scale.
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, and Operations to align priorities and drive execution across the business.
- Act as a trusted advisor to law firm and legal department leaders and an influential partner to senior stakeholders across Harvey.
- Drive organizational performance through effective planning, resource management, talent development, and operational excellence.
- Help define the future of Legal Engineering.
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer with 12+ years of post-qualification experience (PQE).
- Experience practicing law at a top-tier law firm and/or in-house at a leading company, with significant client-facing experience.
- Experience leading managers and manager-led organizations, not solely individual contributors.
- Demonstrated success building and scaling high-performing teams in complex, fast-paced environments.
- Experience owning organizational systems, processes, and operating models.
- Proven ability to build strong cross-functional partnerships and drive results across multiple stakeholders.
- Strong track record of managing upward and influencing senior leaders.
- Experience representing an organization externally and building trusted relationships with executive-level stakeholders.
- Deep understanding of law firms and enterprise legal teams, including corporate, litigation, investigations, regulatory, compliance, and legal operations functions, as well as the evolving legal technology landscape.
- Exceptional communication, leadership, and organizational skills.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience leading teams outside of a traditional law firm hierarchy.
- Experience in legal technology, professional services, consulting, legal innovation, legal operations, or other customer-facing organizations.
- Experience operating in a high-growth technology company.
- Experience leading globally distributed teams.
- Demonstrated ability to create structure and drive execution in rapidly evolving environments.
- Experience working across multiple legal practice areas, including corporate, litigation, investigations, regulatory, compliance, and legal operations.
