Head of IT

Why Harvey

Harvey is a secure AI platform for professionals in law, tax, and finance that augments productivity and automates complex workflows. Harvey uses algorithms with reasoning-adept LLMs that have been customized and developed by our expert team of lawyers, engineers and research scientists. We’ve found product market fit and are scaling our team very quickly. Some reasons to join Harvey are:

• Exceptional product market fit: We have partnered with the largest law firms and professional service providers in the world, including Paul Weiss, A&O Shearman, Ashurst, O'Melveny & Myers, PwC, KKR, and many others.
• Strategic investors: Raised over $200 million from strategic investors including Sequoia, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and the OpenAI Startup Fund.
• World-class team: Harvey is hiring the best talent from DeepMind, Google Brain, Stripe, FAIR, Tesla Autopilot, Glean, Superhuman, Figma, and more.
• Partnerships: Our engineers and researchers work directly with OpenAI to build the future of generative AI and redefine professional services.
• Performance: $0-30M ARR in the last 18 months.
• Value: Top of market cash and equity compensation.
  
  

Role Overview

Harvey is a quickly growing legal AI startup. We have 170+ employees across our offices in San Francisco and New York, have been doubling in headcount each quarter for the last 3 quarters and continue to grow.

Although Harvey is a young company, our IT environment is quite mature, driven by our strict security demands. For example, all devices are centrally managed, all corporate apps utilize SCIM and SSO, onboarding is mostly automated, etc. The environment is 100% MacOS and cloud with only basic on-prem hardware.

You will be our 2nd IT hire and continue to build the IT team as the company grows. You will report to the Head of Security.

As a technical leader, you will set the technical direction of the team, while also hands-on delivering critical IT projects.

You should be able to navigate VLANs, tagged and untagged ports, network hardware, wireless standards, and solve difficult networking issues from first principles. You are familiar with software engineering workflows and can manage build systems, version control systems, and containerized architectures, ideally by having some software engineering experience yourself.

As a manager, you understand the business and its constantly evolving needs, prioritize and set the goals and vision for your team. You are able to attract, motivate, grow, and retain top talent and make sure that projects are finished on time and on budget. You find the right vendors for your projects, negotiate contracts, manage the vendor relationships, and ensure service quality. You fit in with our security-first mindset and implement and maintain robust security measures under the direction of our security team.

Responsibilities

• Deliver IT projects and solve difficult IT issues hands on
• Lead a small and growing IT team as the company scales
• Create a best-in-class onboarding experience for all offices while the company doubles in size every six months
• Ensure the successful launch of new offices
• Drive the adoption of IT systems engineering administration best practices including and not limited to documentation and training staff
• Manage vendor relationships for networking, AV, and security
• Work closely with Security to implement policies, tooling and compliance checks
• Develop and manage the IT budget
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Extensive knowledge of modern IT systems, networks, and software development
• Excellent leadership, team-building, and motivational skills. Strong decision-making and problem-solving abilities
• Strong business acumen and ability to align IT strategy with business goals.
• Predictable and reliable availability
• Ability to debug weird system behaviors and solve difficult issues
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  
  

Experience

• 5+ years of experience in leadership roles in systems engineering, systems administration, SRE, or similar. Preferably in fast-paced startup environments.
  
  

Compensation

In consideration of market analysis and relevant factors, the salary range for this position is set between $200,000 and $250,000. However, adjustments outside of this range may be considered for candidates whose qualifications significantly differ from those outlined in the job description. Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in our equity plan and benefits program. Benefits include, but not limited to: Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits (401k match up to 4%), and flexible PTO.

Harvey is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.

Compensation Range: $200K - $250K