Associate Commercial Counsel

Harvey
Munich, Germany
Hybrid

Who this role is best for

Best suited to German-qualified lawyers with commercial or tech experience working in a fast-growing AI SaaS company.

Best fit for

  • German-qualified lawyers with 2+ years of commercial or technology experience
    — “German qualified lawyer with a minimum of 2+ years post qualification experience”
  • Candidates who thrive in evolving legal practices and enjoy building expertise
    — “willingness to build expertise and solve new challenges in an evolving practice”
  • Legal professionals who value working in a mission-driven, high-intensity environment
    — “Our team moves fast, takes ownership, and is deeply committed to the mission”

Things to consider

  • The role requires a hybrid work model with 3 days in-office per week
    — “We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week”
  • The position is for the first in-house counsel in Munich, implying limited existing structure
    — “Support the growth of the DACH region as our first in-house counsel in Munich”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in developing legal functions in new regions or markets
    — “help to continue to develop the legal function in EMEA”
  • Emphasize independent problem-solving and proactive work style in your application
    — “Ability to think creatively, function independently and work proactively”
  • Showcase your ability to work closely with Go-To-Market teams and manage commercial contracts
    — “Draft, review, and negotiate Commercial AI SaaS contracts”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • Drafted and negotiated commercial AI SaaS contracts
  • Developed legal function in EMEA
Typical background
Legal background with experience in commercial or technology lawIn-house counsel experience

Skills & requirements

Required

Commercial ContractsAI LegalTransactional LawLegal Function DevelopmentCustomer Agreement Management

Preferred

Saas Legal ExperienceIn-house Counsel Experience

Stack & domain

Commercial Ai Saas ContractsLegal Function DevelopmentDach Region SupportLegal IssuesTransactional BackgroundCommercial ContractsIp Licensing Commercial AgreementsCreative ThinkingIndependent FunctioningProactive WorkTeam-focusedCollaborative Work StyleHyper-responsiveService-orientedLegalIp Licensing

About the role

Original posting from Harvey via Ashby

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 are looking for an Associate Commercial Counsel to join our legal team in Munich. Reporting to the Head of EMEA Legal in London, you will interface with our Go-To-Market team to help ensure the fast and efficient execution of our agreements with customers.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Generative AI has the power to greatly change the world and directly impact how things get done. Harvey is at the forefront of this change, and our mission is to make generative AI actionable and useful for our customers. This is a fast moving environment that is serving some of the world’s most renowned law firms and professional service organizations. And this role will put you in the center of all of this.

More specifically, you will:

  • Draft, review, and negotiate Commercial AI SaaS contracts
  • Under the leadership of the Head of EMEA Legal, help to continue to develop the legal function in EMEA, laying down a strong substantive, organizational and relationship foundation for the legal presence in the region
  • Support the growth of the DACH region as our first in-house counsel in Munich
  • Work on other legal issues as they arise

We are a growing company, and one of the best things about working in such an environment is that there is lots of opportunity to pick up other aspects of the legal work that supports our company. While the principal job will be as described above, there will be ample opportunities to broaden your wheelhouse here at Harvey!

We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week.

WHAT YOU HAVE

  • German qualified lawyer with a minimum of 2+ years post qualification experience, either with the commercial or technology division of a leading private practice law firm and/or in-house with a technology company supporting SaaS or technology Go-To-Market or Business Development teams
  • Transactional background focused on commercial contracts, including with technology, and/or IP licensing commercial agreements
  • AI experience welcomed but not required
  • Ability to think creatively, function independently and work proactively in a fast-paced environment
  • Team-focused and collaborative work style; willingness to build expertise and solve new challenges in an evolving practice
  • Hyper-responsive and service-oriented attitude, and a love for solving hard problems with a small tight-knit team

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].

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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

Source: Harvey careers (Ashby)

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