Executive Recruiter

Harvey

San Francisco, CA

Hybrid

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for experienced executive recruiters who build leadership pipelines and operate in fast-paced environments, with a background in high-growth or tech-driven companies and a focus on global hiring.

Best fit for

Candidates with a background in high-growth or tech-driven companies and a track record of executive-level placements
— “Proven success hiring senior leaders in high growth, global, or technology-driven companies.”
Individuals who thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments and contribute to process improvement
— “Comfort operating in fast paced, evolving environments and contributing to process improvement.”
Candidates with strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills, particularly with C-level leaders
— “Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience partnering closely with C-level leaders.”

Things to consider

This role demands high visibility and impact, requiring a candidate ready for intense leadership collaboration
— “This role is highly visible and impactful, combining deep relationship building, rigorous research, and operational excellence.”
The role requires managing multiple complex searches simultaneously, which may demand high organizational capacity
— “Highly organized and data driven, with the ability to manage multiple complex searches simultaneously.”

How to stand out

Highlight your experience in building diverse leadership pipelines through proactive sourcing and networking
— “Build and maintain diverse, high quality leadership pipelines through proactive sourcing, networking, and market mapping.”
Emphasize your ability to deliver a white glove candidate experience for senior-level executives
— “Deliver a thoughtful, white glove candidate experience for senior level candidates.”
Demonstrate your ability to define role scope and success profiles in partnership with leadership
— “Partner with founders, executives, and hiring leaders to define role scope, success profiles, and hiring strategy.”

Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Team

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

successful executive hires
high quality leadership pipelines

Typical background

6-10+ years of executive recruiting experience

Skills & requirements

Required

Executive RecruitingLeadership HiringRelationship BuildingResearch And SourcingOperational Excellence

Preferred

Executive CompensationClosing Strategies

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’re building category defining AI products for legal professionals and the market is moving fast.
Harvey is looking for an experienced Executive Recruiter to support and scale our senior leadership hiring across functions and regions. Reporting to the Head of Executive Recruiting, you will partner closely with founders, executives, and VPs to attract and hire exceptional leadership talent from department heads to senior executives.
This role is highly visible and impactful, combining deep relationship building, rigorous research, and operational excellence. You will help deliver best in class executive hiring while contributing to the continued evolution of Harvey’s leadership recruiting strategy and processes.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Own and drive end to end executive and senior leadership searches across the organization.
Partner with founders, executives, and hiring leaders to define role scope, success profiles, and hiring strategy.
Build and maintain diverse, high quality leadership pipelines through proactive sourcing, networking, and market mapping.
Deliver a thoughtful, white glove candidate experience for senior level candidates.
Collaborate with the Head of Executive Recruiting and other recruiters to align on priorities, strategy, and execution.
Manage and partner with external search firms when appropriate.
Contribute to scalable processes, tools, and metrics for executive hiring.
Provide market insights and talent intelligence to leadership to inform hiring decisions.
WHAT YOU HAVE
6–10+ years of executive recruiting experience, ideally with a combination of search firm/agency and in house experience.
Proven success hiring senior leaders in high growth, global, or technology-driven companies.
Strong research and sourcing capabilities, including the ability to identify and engage hard to reach executive talent.
Solid understanding of executive compensation, assessment methodologies, and closing strategies.
Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience partnering closely with C-level leaders.
Highly organized and data driven, with the ability to manage multiple complex searches simultaneously.
Comfort operating in fast paced, evolving environments and contributing to process improvement.
COMPENSATION RANGE
$157,000 - $213,000 USD
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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)