Senior Compliance Manager

Job description

WHY HARVEY At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate. By combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise, we’re reshaping how critical knowledge work gets done for decades to come. This is a rare chance to help build a generational company at a true inflection point. We have strong product-market fit and world-class investor support. We’re scaling fast and defining a new category in real time. The work is ambitious, the bar is high, and the opportunity for growth — personal, professional, and financial — is unmatched. Our team moves fast, takes ownership, and is deeply committed to the mission — operating with intensity, staying close to our customers, and pushing each other for excellence. We live by three values: Decisiveness, Simplicity, and Job's Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information, we believe simplicity is what scales, and we're never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive, we'd love to build with you. At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started. ROLE OVERVIEW Some of the world's largest companies and their law firms use Harvey's AI capabilities to deliver world-class client services at unprecedented scale and efficiency. Harvey allows high-performing professionals to gain deep domain knowledge faster, understand the big picture, and tackle more complex challenges in less time. Our customers depend on us to deliver a secure, trustworthy, and compliant platform. Earning the trust of our customers is a business enabler and we value it more than anything else. In this role, you'll report to the Head of Trust and own Harvey's end-to-end compliance programs. You will be accountable for establishing and scaling certifications and compliance programs critical to Harvey's expansion into regulated markets. You will work cross-functionally with Engineering, Product Security, Legal, Sales, and external assessors, advisors, and government partners to build a best-in-class compliance practice, and will recruit and lead a small, high-impact team to operate it at scale. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build the business case and strategic roadmap for compliance investments, articulating ROI, certification sequencing, and market opportunity to leadership - Lead gap assessments and compliance readiness evaluations across applicable frameworks, producing maturity baselines and prioritized remediation roadmaps - Select, onboard, and manage third-party assessors and compliance advisors; hold partners accountable to timelines and escalate risks early - Drive audit readiness — coordinating evidence collection, continuous monitoring, and audit documentation management with Engineering and Security - Support customer security reviews, RFP responses, and due diligence conversations as the authoritative internal voice on Harvey's compliance posture - Build and lead a small team: hire, set direction, develop members, and scale program operations as Harvey's footprint grows WHAT YOU HAVE - 10+ years in information security or compliance, with 5+ years leading compliance programs for commercial SaaS or PaaS - Deep command of the compliance lifecycle -- scoping, gap analysis, control documentation, assessment coordination, and continuous monitoring - Proven cross-functional influence at the senior level; able to drive compliance outcomes across Engineering, Product, Legal, and Sales without slowing the business - Track record selecting and managing third-party assessors and compliance advisory firms - Experience building and leading small teams in fast-paced environments, with a bias for hiring exceptional people and creating clarity from ambiguity - 1–2+ years using AI tools to improve program efficiency (evidence automation, gap analysis, continuous monitoring) COMPENSATION $187,600 - $281,400 USD DEPENDING ON YOUR LOCATION, AN APPLICANT PRIVACY NOTICE MAY APPLY TO YOU. YOU CAN FIND ALL OF OUR APPLICANT PRIVACY NOTICES [HERE https://www.notion.so/harveyai/Harvey-Candidate-Privacy-Policies-319ac3fcdd7a803bb807d5094f249922]. #LI-KV1 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. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made by emailing accommodations@harvey.ai