Director of Engineering Site Lead

Why Harvey

Harvey is a secure AI platform for legal and professional services that augments productivity and automates complex workflows. Harvey uses algorithms with reasoning-adept LLMs that have been customized and developed by our expert team of lawyers, engineers and research scientists. We’ve found product market fit and are scaling our team very quickly. Some reasons to join Harvey are:

• Exceptional product market fit: We have partnered with the largest law firms and professional service providers in the world, including Paul Weiss, A&O Shearman, Ashurst, O'Melveny & Myers, PwC, KKR, and many others.

• Strategic investors: Raised over $500 million from strategic investors including Sequoia, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and OpenAI.

• World-class team: Harvey is hiring the best talent from DeepMind, Google Brain, Stripe, FAIR, Tesla Autopilot, Glean, Superhuman, Figma, and more.

• Partnerships: Our engineers and researchers work directly with OpenAI to build the future of generative AI and redefine professional services.

• Performance: 4x ARR in 2024.

• Competitive compensation.

Harvey is seeking a Director of Engineering and Site Lead for our New York office. In this position, you will play a critical role in helping out build out an engineering team for Harvey in New York and helping us expand Harvey’s product to meet our global customer demand. 

What You’ll Do: 

• Hire and grow a landing team of 10+ engineers in New York to launch our EPD team formally on the East Coast. 

• Partner with EPD leadership and our San Francisco team on an effective and collaborative model of alignment across geographies that prioritizes engineering velocity and an element of autonomy for teams while maintaining Harvey’s commitment to enterprise trust and safety.

• Work closely with customers and cross-functional partners to understand customer pain points, identify opportunities, and develop a compelling roadmap for expanding on existing Harvey products and on input for future products.

• Foster a culture of engineering excellence, paired with innovation and calculated risk-taking.

• Help shape the broader Engineering and Tech org as Harvey goes through hypergrowth.

What You Have:

• At least 6+ years of experience in a software engineering management role, leading teams focused on customer-facing product surfaces.

• Strong collaboration skills given how closely you’ll be working across geographies with EPD leadership and GTM teams.

• Proven track record of building highly engaged and high-performing engineering teams across different cities, including a strong pull for talent and proven experience coaching engineers at scale. 

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer working on customer facing products.

• A plus: Direct experience working on product initiatives that require collaboration with dedicated external partners or customers.

Compensation Range

$300,000 - 360,000 USD

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 in the early innings of a generational company. Joining early at a hypergrowth startup has proven to lead to exponential growth in responsibility, access, and ability. Apply here today!