Senior People Operations Generalist, EMEA

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 We're hiring a Senior People Operations Generalist to join our global People Operations team. You'll support our entire global population — onboarding, compliance, day-to-day HR questions — in true partnership with the rest of the team, with work divided by focus area rather than by region. You'll also take on our global compliance programs almost like a program manager: building them, maintaining them, and continuously improving how they run as we scale into new countries. Based in Ireland or the UK, your experience and time zone will naturally make you the go-to person for EMEA and JAPAC coverage — making calls in real time while the rest of the team is offline. You'll report to our Senior Manager, People Operations and join a broader team of People Operations Generalists and Coordinators. This is a senior generalist role for someone who wants real ownership of a global function, with the backing of a larger team behind them. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Support the end-to-end employee lifecycle for our global population: onboarding, changes, leaves, exits, and everything in between, as part of a global team with work divided by function and program rather than region alone - Own our global compliance programs like a program manager: build new processes, maintain and improve existing ones (right-to-work, statutory leave, GDPR/data protection, and more), and drive ongoing efficiency as we add countries - Serve as the primary point of contact for employees, managers, and external partners (brokers, EOR providers, government agencies) during EMEA/JAPAC hours, given your time zone and regional expertise - Partner with global payroll and EOR platforms (Deel, Remote, or similar) to manage country-specific new hire and offboarding requirements worldwide - Build and maintain SOPs so global processes are documented and don't depend on tribal knowledge - Represent the broader People Ops team on EMEA/JAPAC matters, using good judgment about what needs to wait for US hours and what doesn't - Partner cross-functionally with People Systems, Legal, IT, Payroll, and Workplace teams based in the US WHAT YOU HAVE - 4–6 years of HR/People Ops experience, ideally including time in a mature, multi-country organization - Experience running compliance like a program: building, maintaining, and improving processes over time, not just administering them - Strong, hands-on knowledge of employment law and compliance in at least one region outside the US — EMEA and/or JAPAC experience preferred, given the time zone value it brings - Working knowledge of GDPR and HR data protection requirements - Experience with HRIS/payroll platforms such as Workday, Deel, or Remote - A track record of working independently across a global, distributed team, with good instincts about when to escalate and when to just handle it - A strategic mindset with a strong inclination for program and project management - Excellent written communication, given the async nature of working across time zones - Comfort being the go-to point of contact for a region during your hours, and the confidence to represent the function externally DEPENDING ON YOUR LOCATION, AN APPLICANT PRIVACY NOTICE MAY APPLY TO YOU. YOU CAN FIND ALL OF OUR APPLICANT PRIVACY NOTICES HERE https://harveyai.notion.site/Harvey-Candidate-Privacy-Notices-319ac3fcdd7a803bb807d5094f249922?pvs=74. #LI-LE1 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