Staff Product Manager - New Verticals
About the job
- 8+ years of work experience.
- Background in professional services, such as legal, consulting, banking, or adjacent fields, with experience operating in complex, high-stakes workflows.
- 3+ years of product management experience or closely related experience in solutions, forward deployed engineering, or product consulting.
- Experience working in B2B or enterprise environments, ideally with AI, automation, or workflow tooling.
- Demonstrated ability to ship and iterate on enterprise-grade software or high-complexity solutions.
- Ability to communicate qualitatively and quantitatively and structure ambiguous problem spaces.
- Ability to navigate extreme ambiguity, define structure from zero, and drive clarity for cross-functional teams.
- Willingness to travel by air, run quality assurance, troubleshoot with engineering, or support customer teams as needed.
- Partner directly with strategic accounts to uncover high-impact workflows and translate ambiguous requirements into clear, actionable product definitions for agent-powered solutions.
- Lead discovery for assigned accounts and verticals, developing a deep understanding of user intentions, data constraints, workflows, and success criteria.
- Map workflows to the broader product, identifying where out-of-the-box agent capabilities fit and where custom development is needed.
- Drive deployments end to end, working with forward deployed engineering and customer teams to implement, test, and refine agent solutions.
- Define and track success metrics for supported verticals, ensuring solutions deliver measurable productivity and quality outcomes.
- Develop account-level and vertical-level roadmaps, translating customer needs into scalable products or reusable frameworks.
- Collaborate with founders, executives, engineering, and legal research to align product direction and ensure technical feasibility.
- Influence new commercial models, including pricing, packaging, and deployment strategies for agent-led solutions.
- Champion repeatability by transforming one-off solutions into product features, components, or templates that scale across the customer base.
- Experience building or deploying AI agents, workflow automation tools, or retrieval-augmented systems.
- Experience as a forward deployed engineer, solutions architect, or consultant with strong product instincts.
- Prior role in a hyper-growth startup or high-performing enterprise product organization.
About the company
Harvey builds AI software made specifically for legal work, used by lawyers at large law firms and corporate legal departments. It became one of the first generative AI tools rolled out across a major law firm when Allen & Overy gave it to its lawyers worldwide in 2023. Lawyers use Harvey to research legal questions, draft and review contracts, and run due diligence across large sets of documents, with answers grounded in their firm's own files and trusted legal sources. Firms pay through enterprise subscriptions, and Harvey can tailor its workflows to practice areas such as litigation and mergers. Harvey was founded in 2022 with early backing from the OpenAI Startup Fund and is based in San Francisco.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Late Stage VC
Total Funding
$1.8B
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2022
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What believers are saying
- Harvey is winning Big Law: 80% of the 100 top-grossing US firms use it, up from 42% in August 2025.
- Sales are compounding: Harvey's yearly subscription revenue roughly doubled to over $400 million from March to September 2026.
- Growth creates room to advance: Harvey's staff quadrupled from 350 in August 2025 to over 1,400 a year later.
What critics are saying
- Busy customers eat profits: per-use AI model bills had Harvey losing 50 cents per sales dollar by June 2026.
- Harvey's head-to-head rival is gaining: Swedish startup Legora signed elite firms Cleary Gottlieb and Linklaters by April 2026.
- Expect long, in-office weeks: most staff come in 3+ days a week, and Harvey's COO says it isn't a 9-to-5.
What makes Harvey unique
- Harvey taps a legal research giant's library: LexisNexis supplies its case law and checks that rulings still stand.
- Harvey is replacing rented AI with its own: Tenet, launched August 2026, retrains Chinese startup Moonshot's Kimi K3 for law.
- Big-firm lawyers moving to AI companies pick Harvey most: it hired 22 of 46 in the first half of 2026.
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2%US legal artificial intelligence company Harvey plans to enter Japan in early 2027, its chief executive officer said. The move is expected to speed up AI use among law firms and their corporate clients. It may also push lawyers to use billable time more efficiently. Harvey is based in Palo Alto, California.
AI is changing how lawyers work - and putting the billable hour under pressure. Published Sat, Oct 10 20261:00 AM EDT Lindsay Dodgson Listen 4min Key Points * AI is challenging some of the assumptions on which the legal profession was built, forcing firms to reevaluate how their lawyers spend their time and charge for it. * The billable hour is central to the business model of many law firms, but AI means the economics are no longer so straightforward. * AI is also changing how some lawyers learn their trade, as repetitive tasks traditionally helped junior lawyers learn the building blocks of law. Artificial intelligence is now used by almost 90% of legal professionals in the U.K. and Ireland, and it's putting one of the profession's oldest conventions - the billable hour - under the microscope. That's according to legal software company Clio's U.K. & Ireland Legal Insights Report 2026. It found that among firms using AI, almost 80% said they can handle more work without increasing resources, while over 70% said it cut costs by absorbing administrative work once done by support staff. As a result, AI is challenging some of the assumptions on which the legal profession was built, forcing firms to reevaluate how their lawyers spend their time, how they charge for it and how new lawyers learn the ropes. Some of the U.K.'s biggest firms are already putting this into practice. A&O Shearman has worked with legal AI company Harvey to develop artificial intelligence agents for tasks, including reviewing loan agreements and analyzing regulatory filings, which it says can complete in minutes work that previously took several hours. Slaughter and May, meanwhile, has rolled out Harvey across all practice areas this year, including for regulatory research and document analysis. Billable hour pressure. The billable hour is central to the business model of many law firms, but when AI significantly reduces the time lawyers spend sifting through and drafting documents, the economics are no longer so straightforward. "You can't charge 16 hours for something that takes 16 seconds," Nick Rowles-Davies, founder and CEO of legal finance fund Lexolent, based in London and Dubai, told CNBC. About one in five firms that have widely adopted AI report difficulty meeting billable-hour targets, according to Clio's report. Globally, senior legal leaders expect the share of work charged by the hour to fall from 72% to 44% over the next two to three years, according to a Deloitte survey. Routine work is the most exposed, Rowles-Davies said. "If you've got standard documents and you're just putting in detail, then clearly that's an automatic process." But complex legal work still requires human judgment, he added, particularly when interpreting AI output and determining the right strategy for a client. Lawyers also need to be able to spot AI hallucinations. "There have been a lot of cases where lawyers have been sanctioned for producing briefs before a court with cases that don't exist," Rowles-Davies said. Mansoor Soomro, who leads the Future of Work Research Unit at Teesside University in Middlesbrough, England, told CNBC the billable hour is certainly not disappearing overnight, but it is getting harder to justify. Junior lawyer training. AI is also changing how lawyers learn their trade, Soomro added, as repetitive tasks traditionally helped junior lawyers learn the building blocks of law. Reviewing hundreds of documents taught them what matters, writing up contracts honed their drafting skills and researching dozens of cases helped them develop legal reasoning, he added. As AI takes on more of that work, firms will need to be deliberate about replacing those learning opportunities, according to London-based Jorge Bestard, head of EMEA at Harvey. "A faster route to a draft does not automatically mean a faster route to competence," he told CNBC. A&O Shearman is placing more value on "curiosity and entrepreneurship," said Francesca Bennetts, the firm's London-based head of legal talent. It is also building career paths in legal engineering, product and AI delivery that "barely existed a few years ago," she told CNBC. "The need to develop exceptional lawyers doesn't go away," Bennetts said. "They are the partners and experts of the future." Soomro expects judgment to become "disproportionately valuable" in the sector, with lawyers spending more time checking and challenging AI's output and interpreting what it means for a client. "The future may therefore not belong to the lawyer who knows the most about one narrow area, but to the lawyer who knows how to connect multiple areas to solve a complex client problem," he said. AI and workloads. Whether AI efficiencies ultimately make lawyers' working lives better may depend on what firms do with the time they get back. Clio's report found that 51% of legal professionals work evenings, but only 32% want to, while 22% work weekends compared with 11% who would choose to. Joshua Lenon, Clio's New York-based lawyer-in-residence, believes some lawyers are already seeing the benefits. "Lawyers [are] telling us that their day is getting better," Lenon told CNBC, as AI becomes more commonplace. "People are really looking at these tools and saying, 'This is making work better.'"
Trusted legal AI for the US Public Sector: Harvey achieves TX-RAMP Level 2 certification. Harvey has achieved TX-RAMP Level 2 certification - demonstrating that it meets Texas's security requirements for cloud services handling confidential or regulated government data. by Harvey Team - Oct 8, 2026 Today, Harvey is proud to announce Harvey has achieved Texas Risk and Authorization Management Program (TX-RAMP) Level 2 certification, effective September 22, 2026. This certification means Texas state agencies, state courts and public institutions of higher education can now bring Harvey's full-stack legal AI platform into their work on sensitive legal matters. "Achieving TX-RAMP Level 2 is a major milestone for our Texas public-sector customers, removing a key security compliance barrier to adopting Harvey across state agencies, state courts and public institutions of higher education," said Pat Manion, Head of Public Sector. "By streamlining contract reviews, compliance filings, and complex legal research, this certification empowers state legal teams to operate with unprecedented speed and precision, ultimately strengthening public administration for Texas citizens." What TX-RAMP Level 2 certifies. Administered by the Texas Department of Information Resources, TX-RAMP provides a standardized approach to the security assessment, certification, and continuous monitoring of cloud services used by Texas state agencies. TX-RAMP adds assurance specifically designed for the needs of Texas government. Level 2 is the program's certification level for cloud services that process, store, or transmit confidential or regulated data in moderate- or high-impact systems. Certification requires a cloud service to satisfy the applicable Level 2 assessment criteria and continue meeting the program's requirements. For customers, this provides a clearer and more consistent way to evaluate whether a cloud provider has implemented the safeguards required for sensitive government information. Building on a foundation of verifiable trust. "Customer trust is foundational to how Harvey builds and operates," said Joshua McKibben, Harvey's Head of Trust. "While certifications like TX-RAMP Level 2 serve as a vital external proof point, true security goes far beyond a single badge - it represents our continuous, day-in, day-out commitment to security and operational resilience." TX-RAMP Level 2 builds on Harvey's broader security and trust program, which includes its SOC 2 Type II attestation and ISO 27001, ISO 27701, and ISO 42001 certifications. Customers can review its certifications and supporting information directly at trust.harvey.ai.
Japanese legal tech company Legalscape has partnered with US-based AI developer Harvey to integrate its proprietary Japanese law research tool into Harvey's platform. The collaboration will make Legalscape's legal research capabilities accessible through Harvey AI's system. The partnership aims to enhance AI-powered legal services for Japanese law research by combining Legalscape's local expertise with Harvey's artificial intelligence platform. The Tokyo-based legal tech firm specialises in Japanese law research tools, whilst Harvey provides AI solutions for the legal industry. Through this integration, users of Harvey's platform will gain access to Legalscape's Japanese legal database and research functionality.
Harvey partners with Legalscape to bring Japanese Legal Intelligence to cross-border teams. by Harvey Team - Oct 2, 2026 Today, Harvey announced a data partnership with Legalscape, Japan's leading legal data & AI company. The partnership integrates "Legal Intelligence by Legalscape" - spanning Japanese statutes, case law, and administrative guidelines alongside commentaries and practical literature - giving legal teams outside of Japan a direct route to the sources Japanese practitioners rely on. The partnership expands Harvey's growing network of 1,000+ global legal data sources, reinforcing its position as the unified platform where lawyers can access, search, and cite legal knowledge from around the world. With Legalscape's trusted Japanese legal research AI integrated into Harvey, global lawyers will be able to access Japanese legal information alongside internal knowledge, precedent documents, and other integrated data sources without switching tools or losing context. Example use cases include: * Inbound investment and M&A: Advising clients on Japanese corporate and commercial law in acquisitions, joint ventures, and market entry. * Cross-border disputes: Researching Japanese case law and procedure where Japanese parties or governing law are involved. * Regulatory diligence: Understanding Japanese regulatory requirements and administrative guidelines when assessing Japanese targets or operations. * Working with local counsel: Arriving at conversations with Japanese counsel already grounded in the relevant sources. "Legal Intelligence by Legalscape" will be available through Harvey in the coming months. Customers interested in early access can contact their Harvey account team. "Lawyers need AI grounded in the legal knowledge of the markets where they work. Our partnership with Legalscape brings legal research AI with authoritative Japanese legal knowledge into Harvey, giving lawyers around the world a stronger foundation for their research. Together, we're connecting local legal expertise with a global platform built for the way lawyers work," said John Haddock, Chief Business Officer at Harvey. "We are delighted to partner with Harvey, a leading global legal AI platform. This partnership will bring Legal Intelligence by Legalscape to legal professionals around the world, while giving our customers in Japan a new way to access it. Responsibly delivering Japanese legal content through AI by encompassing official primary sources alongside authoritative commentary from our publishing partners is a major step toward our vision of bringing legal knowledge to every corner of society," said Miki Yagita, Co-Founder, Representative Director & CEO of Legalscape. Koji Toshima, Partner and CFO at Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, said, "Our firm began working with Legalscape in 2019 and with Harvey in 2024, exploring the potential of AI in legal work and advancing the use of cutting-edge technology in our practice. We believe that this partnership between two companies offering sophisticated systems, connecting two legal AIs so that Japanese legal information can be accessed through Legal Intelligence on Harvey, will bring significant value not only in Japan but to legal practice globally." About Harvey Harvey is the operating system for legal and professional services. Its products streamline workflows in areas including contract analysis, due diligence, compliance, and litigation to drive efficiency and value. Law firms and legal teams around the world use Harvey to enable faster, smarter decision-making. Backed by world-class investors including Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, a16z, Coatue, EQT, GIC, GV, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, J.P. Morgan, Lightspeed, and the OpenAI Startup Fund, Harvey is used by 3,000+ customers in 70+ countries. About Legalscape Legalscape is a legal data & AI company whose strengths lie in advanced natural language processing and the research and real-world application of generative AI in the legal field. By supporting legal knowledge work and making trusted legal information more accessible and timely, Legalscape aims to help build a society where law better serves everyone. As of October 2026, Legalscape partners with over 40 publishers, and its platform has been adopted by over 3,000 clients, including all of Japan's top five largest law firms by lawyer headcount, and 70% of the country's 100 largest law firms by lawyer headcount have adopted the platform. Legalscape ranks No. 1 in Japan for revenue of its legal research AI.* *Market research on "Legal Research Services" (No. 1 Verification Survey) conducted by Trending Future Research Institute Inc. (as of September 29, 2025). Last updated: October 2, 2026