Director, Legal Engineering, EMEA
Leads Harvey’s Legal Engineering organizations across EMEA, managing managers and driving organizational scale, operational excellence, and cross-functional execution. Requires a qualified lawyer with 12+ years of post-qualification experience and significant leadership experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead, develop, and scale a team of Legal Engineering Managers and their organizations serving in-house customers.
- Build systems, processes, and operating mechanisms that enable Legal Engineering to deliver exceptional customer outcomes at scale.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, and Operations to align priorities and drive execution.
- Act as a trusted advisor to law firm and legal department leaders and an influential partner to senior stakeholders.
- Drive organizational performance through 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.
Skills
Legal Engineering, People Leadership, Organizational Design, Operational Excellence, Resource Management, Talent Development, Cross-Functional Leadership, Law Firms, Legal Operations, Legal Technology, Corporate Law, Litigation, Regulatory Compliance, Executive Stakeholder Management, Process Design
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