Senior Public Sector Counsel, Harvey
$210.3-300k
+ Equity + Bonus
More information about location
Domain-specific AI for legal and professional services
Posted today
Domain-specific AI for legal and professional services
501-1000 employees
Posted today
$210.3-300k
+ Equity + Bonus
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help professionals develop expertise, faster.
Role
Who you are
- A law degree from an accredited law school
- Admitted to practice law and in good standing in at least one jurisdiction (California, New York, or DC preferred)
- 7+ years of law firm and/or in-house experience
- Transactional background, including with strong experience with complex SaaS, technology, and/or IP licensing and commercial agreements, with a particular focus on government contracts and public sector transactions
- Experience negotiating complex agreements with federal, state, and/or local government customers and prime contractors
- Working knowledge of government procurement regimes, including the FAR, DFARS, and related government contracting regulations and processes
- Experience advising businesses on selling into the government and public sector, including go-to-market and procurement strategy
- Ability to think creatively, function independently and work proactively in a fast-paced environment
- Team-focused and collaborative work style; willingness to build expertise and solve new challenges in an evolving practice
- Hyper-responsive and service-oriented attitude
- Ninja-like project management skills
- Bonus qualifications include prior government service, experience with AI, supporting Go-To-Market/ Sales, and a love for solving hard problems with a small tight-knit team
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced public sector lawyer to join our legal team to help build and lead Harvey’s government and public sector legal function
- You will help drive our efforts to build relationships with, and sell to, government agencies
- You will interface with our go-to-market, business and cross-functional teams (including Engineering, Product and Security) to help ensure the fast, efficient execution of our agreements with government customers and prime contractors
- Generative AI has the power to greatly change the world and directly impact how things get done, including how governments and public sector agencies serve the public
- Harvey is at the forefront of this change, and our mission is to make generative AI actionable and useful for our customers
- This is a fast moving environment (we are a start-up!) that is serving some of the world’s most renowned law firms and professional organizations. And this role will put you in the center of all of this
- Partner with cross-functional teams on potential opportunities and advise on public sector procurement processes, proposals, and strategies for selling Harvey’s platform to government agencies
- Draft, review, and negotiate complex government contracts, AI SaaS agreements, and other technology-related agreements with federal, state, and local government customers and prime contractors, ensuring compliance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and agency-specific requirements
- Provide contract lifecycle counsel across the public sector business, including contract administration, performance issues, and government contracting compliance obligations
- Provide training and develop resources for legal and cross-functional teams
- We are a small, but growing company, and one of the best things about working in such an environment is that there is lots of opportunity to pick up other aspects of the legal work that supports our company
- While the principal job will be as described above, there will be ample opportunities to broaden your wheelhouse here at Harvey!
Our take
The explosive popularity of generative AI tools has seen specialized solutions popping up for all kinds of industries. Hoping to help supercharge efficiency and productivity for legal teams, Harvey supplies generative AI that can assist with documentation, as well as aid research and optimize workflows.
Via natural language instructions, Harvey helps draft and analyze legal documents. It can also answer complex questions across large document sets, or even handle research queries that cover multiple domains in legal, regulatory and tax.
Its ability to support legal practitioners as if it's another member of the team is what makes Harvey particularly interesting. This approach has seen the company raise substantial funding, reaching Unicorn status in 2024. Funds are now being used to expand to new geographies, grow headcount and further collect and curate data to train more “domain-specific” AI models.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Mar 2026
$200m
LATE VC
Oct 2025
$59m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $1.2bn
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Winston Weinberg
(Co-Founder & CEO)Graduated with a Juris Doctor from the USC Gould School of Law, then spent 1 year as an Associate at O'Melveny & Myers before founding Harvey.
Gabe Pereyra
(Co-Founder & President)Previously worked as a Research Scientist at Meta and DeepMind. Also spent a year as a Brain Resident at Google.
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