Head of Legal Engineering, Japan

Harvey is an AI platform for legal and professional-services organizations.

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About Harvey

Harvey provides agents and collaborative tools for legal work, including legal research, document analysis, secure workspaces, contract intelligence, and organization-level analytics.

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About the Role

You will build and manage a Japan-based team of Legal Engineers and Legal Engineering Product Specialists. You will design the operating model, ensure high-quality discovery, demos and onboarding for Japanese customers, feed local feedback into the product roadmap, and own hiring and headcount planning.

Requirements

  • Substantial experience practicing law in Japan or with Japanese clients
  • Experience managing legal, client-facing or technical-specialist teams including hiring and coaching
  • Ability to build and scale a function or team
  • Interest in legal technology and AI with product aptitude
  • Professional fluency in Japanese and English

Responsibilities

  • Build, lead and develop the Japan Legal Engineering team
  • Design the Legal Engineering operating model for pre-sales and post-sales needs
  • Ensure high-quality discovery, demos, onboarding and workflow design for Japanese customers
  • Translate customer feedback into roadmap input, feature priorities and localization requirements
  • Own headcount planning, hiring and onboarding for the team
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