Senior Privacy and AI Counsel

Harvey
New York2026-05-21Hybrid

About the job

At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate. 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 1500+ 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.

Responsibilities

- Assist in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating Data Processing Agreements with our customers, subprocessors, service providers, and third-parties.

- Help develop, maintain, and scale global privacy programs. This includes preparing Data Protection Impact Assessments to identify and mitigate privacy risks and Records of Processing in accordance with regulatory requirements.

- Work cross functionally with talented product and engineering teams in evaluating the impact of privacy and data protection laws and regulatory guidance on exciting product developments.

- Monitor and respond to changes in privacy laws and regulations, including AI regulations.

- Support implementation and ongoing compliance with AI-specific regulation, including the CCPA governance framework, and related guidance.

- Assist in classification of AI systems, assessment of risk obligations, and development of internal AI governance controls, documentation, and processes.

- Partner with legal, product, and compliance stakeholders on AI principles such as transparency, accountability, and human-oversight.

Qualifications

Minimum

- Qualified lawyer with 8+ years of post-qualification experience in privacy and data protection

- Proven expertise in U.S. and E.U. data protection law, with familiarity across global compliance frameworks

- Excellent drafting and negotiation skills, with the confidence to represent Harvey on matters relating to data privacy, AI, and security

Preferred

No preferred qualifications listed.