Legal Engineer

Harvey

$80K — $120K *
Legal & Accounting
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Canadian practicing certificate (or equivalent common-law qualification) with 3+ years of legal experience, ideally with in-house roles at corporations or financial institutions.
  • Strong background as a corporate attorney, preferably with top-tier law firm experience.
  • Deep understanding of corporate legal workflows including commercial contracting, governance, compliance, and transactions.
  • Ability to translate complex legal requirements into practical product improvements and client solutions.
  • Proven experience navigating business-oriented legal environments while managing risk and achieving commercial outcomes.
  • Strong judgment and decision-making skills in fast-paced, ambiguous settings.
  • Excellent relationship-building skills and executive presence, capable of engaging senior stakeholders and cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

  • Engage directly with lawyers to identify workflow pain points and propose tailored solutions that leverage Harvey's offerings.
  • Serve as the customer advocate, translating user feedback into actionable product insights for development teams.
  • Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and sales teams to ensure alignment on the product roadmap based on legal team needs.
  • Develop and enhance product demonstrations and workflows that reflect real-world legal practices and the impact of AI.
  • Introduce new product features in a customized and persuasive manner, aiming to improve deployment and adoption rates.

Benefits

  • Join a team of Legal Engineers that draws from real-world legal practice to inform product development.
  • Work in a dynamic environment that fosters creativity and innovation in legal technology.
  • Be part of a mission-driven company focused on enhancing the efficiency and quality of legal work with AI.
  • Engage with a diverse set of stakeholders, from lawyers to product teams, across various functions of the company.
Full Job Description
Role Overview

Harvey's Legal Engineers are former practicing lawyers who bridge customers, sales, and product to support all aspects of our sales strategy and product development. As trusted advisors to the lawyers they work with, they lead sharp discovery and tailored product demonstrations, translating real legal work into Harvey solutions that provide clear value for lawyers.

As strategic partners to law firms and in-house teams, Legal Engineers thrive in ambiguity and help lawyers do higher-quality work faster and with more confidence using Harvey.
What You'll Do
  • Work directly with lawyers at current and prospective customers to uncover workflow pain points, recommend solutions, and show how Harvey fits into real legal work.
  • Serve as the voice of the customer, translating feedback and legal workflow insights into concrete, lawyer-ready product direction.
  • Partner closely with product, engineering, sales, and marketing to shape Harvey's roadmap and ensure the product evolves in ways lawyers trust and adopt.
  • Build and refine product demonstrations, workflows, and use cases that reflect how legal teams actually work, including how AI is changing that work.
  • Introduce new capabilities in a way that's tailored, credible, and compelling for each customer, continuously raising the bar for how Harvey is deployed.
What You Have

You move confidently through uncertainty, you operate at speed, and ship solutions that work-iterating quickly with lawyers, sales teams, and product partners to help Harvey and its customers win. You bring deep curiosity about AI's potential to transform legal work, a bias toward action, and the creativity to solve problems nobody's cracked yet.
  • Based in Toronto and eligible to work in Canada.
  • Canadian practicing certificate (or equivalent common-law qualification) with 3+ years' experience as a qualified lawyer, including meaningful in-house experience at a corporation or financial institution (with prior top-tier law firm experience strongly preferred).
  • Strong background as a corporate attorney, with hands-on experience advising on corporate, commercial, and/or regulatory matters within an in-house legal team.
  • Deep understanding of corporate legal workflows (e.g., commercial contracting, governance, compliance, or transactions) and curiosity about how AI can reshape them.
  • Proven ability to navigate business-oriented legal environments, balancing legal risk with practical commercial outcomes.
  • Demonstrated ability to exercise sound judgment and make confident, well-reasoned recommendations in fast-paced, ambiguous settings.
  • Ability to operate seamlessly across legal, product, and sales contexts-translating between stakeholders with clarity and precision.
  • Executive presence and strong relationship-building skills, with experience engaging business stakeholders, senior leadership, and cross-functional partners.
  • Experience working cross-functionally with product, sales, or business teams in an in-house setting; customer-facing or business development experience is a plus.
  • French speaking is a plus.


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