Staff User Experience Researcher, Harvey
$200-265k
Offers equity and bonus
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
$200-265k
Offers equity and bonus
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help professionals develop expertise, faster.
Role
Who you are
- 8-10+ years of user research experience of digital products in fast-paced, high-growth or technically complex environments
- Track record or portfolio of portfolio-level impact. Experience conducting and defining user research methodologies, integrating qualitative and quantitative insights into design and product strategy
- Demonstrated ability to navigate and simplify multifaceted, ambiguous problem spaces while maintaining a high bar for execution
- Exceptional storytelling and communication skills—capable of influencing cross-functional partners and aligning diverse perspectives
- Strong product judgment and business acumen
- A collaborative, low-ego approach that helps teams move quickly, thoughtfully, and inclusively
What the job involves
- As a Staff User Researcher, you are a senior individual contributor who drives high-impact research across multiple teams or a major product area
- You move beyond single studies to shape problem definition, influence roadmaps, and elevate research quality through strong craft and partnership
- Success looks like teams meaningfully change direction based on your insights and influencing roadmap, research quality improves in the teams you support, and you are trusted as a strategic partner, not just a service provide where Harvey builds shared conviction around user truths
- Own research strategy for a product area or cross-team initiative
- Design and execute end-to-end qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research
- Identify patterns across studies and connect insights to product decisions
- Partner closely with Product Managers and Designers to frame the right problems
- Influence roadmaps by surfacing unmet user needs, risks, and opportunities
- Push teams beyond validation toward deeper discovery
- Produce clear, compelling synthesis and storytelling
- Model strong research rigor, ethics, and judgment
- Mentor mid-level and senior researchers through critique and collaboration
- Act as a go-to researcher for ambiguous or high-stakes problem spaces
- Influence without authority across teams
- Help partners develop stronger research instincts
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
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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