Senior Manager of People Operations, Harvey
$170-230k
Offers bonus and equity
Domain-specific AI for legal and professional services
Open for applications
Domain-specific AI for legal and professional services
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$170-230k
Offers bonus and equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help professionals develop expertise, faster.
Role
Who you are
- 6-8+ years in People Operations, with 3-4+ years at a best-in-class organization
- Proven track record managing and developing high-performing teams — your people grow, stay, and rave about working for you
- Elite program and project management skills with exceptional process design capabilities — you build scalable systems from scratch, juggle multiple complex workstreams, and execute flawlessly across cross-functional teams
- Relentless "figure it out" factor with comfort in ambiguity, high ownership, low ego, and ability to balance rigor with speed — no task too small, you thrive in fast-paced environments where priorities shift
- Deep fluency with HRIS systems, particularly Workday — you understand system architecture, business processes, automations, and integrations
- Demonstrated experience supporting multi-country expansion with understanding of international employment compliance and operations
- Based in San Francisco able to work in-office at least three days per week
What the job involves
- As our Senior Manager, People Operations, you'll be the connective tissue that makes Harvey's People function work seamlessly across teams, systems, and geographies. You'll design and operationalize the foundational processes that enable us to scale while maintaining excellence across the employee lifecycle
- This role sits at the center of our People Operations and Workplace team — partnering with People Systems, People Business Partners, Recruiting, IT, Total Rewards, and Legal to translate strategy into scalable execution
- You'll bring best-in-class frameworks and adapt them for Harvey's hypergrowth reality, building systems and processes that are both rigorous and pragmatic
- This role reports to our People Operations Lead, Tia Thomson, and manages a team of People Operations Associates and Coordinators
- Design and operationalize end-to-end employee lifecycle processes from onboarding through offboarding — including employee changes, promotions, transfers, compensation adjustments, and exits
- Build and operationalize people processes for every country Harvey enters, ensuring compliance, seamless employee experience, and regional infrastructure
- Own employee services — managing our AI-powered ticketing system, triage, and routing, while continuously optimizing Employee HQ and self-service resources to ensure employees get fast, accurate answers
- Create clear, scalable SOPs and documentation that enable consistent execution across a growing team
- Drive ad-hoc projects and special initiatives that support Harvey's growth and evolving organizational needs
- Own HRIS data integrity — conducting audits, cleanup, and governance to ensure Workday is the reliable source of truth
- Generate people data reporting, dashboards, and workforce analytics to support decision-making and headcount planning
- Partner with People Systems team to identify system improvements and design core processes in Workday (onboarding, offboarding, probation periods, comp changes, and more)
- Manage global compliance programs in partnership with Legal — training enrollment and tracking (harassment prevention, code of conduct, etc.), policy governance, and audit readiness
- Manage vendor relationships with EOR providers, background check vendors, compliance tools, and other People Ops partners, evaluating new vendors and ensuring service excellence
- Lead change management and employee communications when rolling out new systems, policies, or programs
- Manage and develop People Operations Associates and Coordinators, providing coaching and growth opportunities
- Build a team culture of ownership, excellence, and continuous improvement
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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Oct 2025
$160m
LATE VC
Oct 2025
$59m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $1.0bn
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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