Lead Compliance Counsel, Harvey
$236-300k
+ Equity + 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
$236-300k
+ Equity + Bonus
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help professionals develop expertise, faster.
Role
Who you are
- This is a high-impact role for a compliance generalist who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is excited to shape a compliance function from the ground up
- J.D. from an accredited law school and active bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction
- 8+ years of relevant experience in compliance, regulatory, or legal roles with substantial responsibility for building and managing compliance programs (at least three years in a tech company is preferred)
- Experience with compliance technology tools (including AI), automated screening systems, and compliance management platforms
- Strong project management skills with the ability to prioritize competing demands, manage multiple workstreams, and drive initiatives to completion in a fast-paced setting
- A collaborative, partnership-oriented working style characterized by integrity, sound judgment, strategic thinking, and a solutions-oriented mindset, with excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to distill complex regulatory concepts for non-legal audiences
- Adaptability and willingness to take on a variety of projects on a lean team in a rapidly scaling company
What the job involves
- As our Compliance Counsel Lead, you will be responsible for building, scaling, and managing a comprehensive global compliance program
- Reporting to the Head of Corporate Legal, you will act as a trusted advisor to business teams across the organization, providing strategic and practical guidance on a wide range of regulatory and compliance matters — including sanctions and export controls, anti-bribery and anti-corruption, KYC, and other applicable global regulatory requirements
- Design, build, and continuously improve scalable compliance programs spanning trade sanctions, export controls (e.g., EAR, OFAC, ITAR), anti-bribery and anti-corruption (e.g., FCPA), KYC/KYB, government contracting, employee conflicts of interest, and other key regulatory areas, including developing risk-based due diligence processes, screening protocols, and ongoing monitoring procedures
- Serve as a subject matter expert and strategic advisor to cross-functional business teams on compliance risks associated with global business activities, commercial expansion, and new products
- Conduct enterprise-wide compliance risk assessments and audits to identify, evaluate, and mitigate compliance risks, and translate findings into actionable remediation plans
- Draft, maintain, and operationalize compliance-related policies, procedures, and internal controls across multiple jurisdictions, and develop and deliver training programs and communications strategies to foster a strong culture of compliance
- Support the review and negotiation of compliance-related provisions in commercial and vendor contracts, complete associated compliance questionnaires and certifications, and identify opportunities to streamline and standardize contracting and diligence processes to improve efficiency
- Monitor and analyze changes in the global regulatory landscape — including U.S. and non-U.S. sanctions regimes, anti-corruption laws, and other applicable frameworks — and oversee regulatory outreach, customer-facing compliance communications, and responses to third-party due diligence questionnaires and vendor compliance certifications
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 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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