Lead Compliance 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

As our Compliance Counsel Lead, you will be responsible for building, scaling, and managing a comprehensive global compliance program. Reporting to the Head of Corporate Legal, you will act as a trusted advisor to business teams across the organization, providing strategic and practical guidance on a wide range of regulatory and compliance matters — including sanctions and export controls, anti-bribery and anti-corruption, KYC, and other applicable global regulatory requirements. This is a high-impact role for a compliance generalist who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is excited to shape a compliance function from the ground up.

What Youll Do

• Design, build, and continuously improve scalable compliance programs spanning trade sanctions, export controls (e.g., EAR, OFAC, ITAR), anti-bribery and anti-corruption (e.g., FCPA), KYC/KYB, government contracting, employee conflicts of interest, and other key regulatory areas, including developing risk-based due diligence processes, screening protocols, and ongoing monitoring procedures.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and strategic advisor to cross-functional business teams on compliance risks associated with global business activities, commercial expansion, and new products.
• Conduct enterprise-wide compliance risk assessments and audits to identify, evaluate, and mitigate compliance risks, and translate findings into actionable remediation plans.
• Draft, maintain, and operationalize compliance-related policies, procedures, and internal controls across multiple jurisdictions, and develop and deliver training programs and communications strategies to foster a strong culture of compliance.
• Support the review and negotiation of compliance-related provisions in commercial and vendor contracts, complete associated compliance questionnaires and certifications, and identify opportunities to streamline and standardize contracting and diligence processes to improve efficiency.
• Monitor and analyze changes in the global regulatory landscape — including U.S. and non-U.S. sanctions regimes, anti-corruption laws, and other applicable frameworks — and oversee regulatory outreach, customer-facing compliance communications, and responses to third-party due diligence questionnaires and vendor compliance certifications.
  
  

• J.D. from an accredited law school and active bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• 8+ years of relevant experience in compliance, regulatory, or legal roles with substantial responsibility for building and managing compliance programs (at least three years in a tech company is preferred)
• Experience with compliance technology tools (including AI), automated screening systems, and compliance management platforms
• Strong project management skills with the ability to prioritize competing demands, manage multiple workstreams, and drive initiatives to completion in a fast-paced setting.
• A collaborative, partnership-oriented working style characterized by integrity, sound judgment, strategic thinking, and a solutions-oriented mindset, with excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to distill complex regulatory concepts for non-legal audiences.
• Adaptability and willingness to take on a variety of projects on a lean team in a rapidly scaling company.