Head of EA Operations

Harvey
New York, NY

Who this role is best for

Geared toward experienced executive support leaders comfortable with global team coordination and high-growth environments.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with prior experience leading executive support teams in fast-growing organizations
    — “This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who has built and run an executive support team before
  • Candidates who have managed executive assistants across multiple offices and time zones
    — “Experience managing across multiple offices and time zones, ideally globally
  • Candidates who have worked closely with C-level and senior leaders to establish trust and performance expectations
    — “A track record supporting C-level and senior leaders, with the judgment and presence to earn their trust

Things to consider

  • This role demands global coordination and consistent standards for executive support across offices
    — “own hiring, standards, and coverage globally so every executive has consistent, reliable support
  • Candidates must be prepared to provide direct, hands-on support when needed
    — “Provide interim, hands-on coverage when needed — stepping in to support a leader directly

How to stand out

  • Emphasize your history of setting clear expectations and service levels for executive assistants
    — “Set shared expectations, service levels, and ways of working for the role
  • Showcase your ability to manage sensitive, confidential information effectively
    — “Strong operational instincts — you build the systems, playbooks, and ratios — paired with excellent judgment around sensitive, confidential information
  • Demonstrate your cross-functional leadership experience with teams like engineering and go-to-market
    — “experience influencing without direct authority across engineering, product, go-to-market, and G&A teams
  • Show how you've balanced workload and ensured reliable coverage in fast-scaling environments
    — “Manage support coverage and ratios globally — keeping coverage reliable, balancing load across the team
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Senior

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

What success looks like

  • consistent executive support
  • fair compensation
  • global coverage
Typical background
executive supportteam managementhiring

Skills & requirements

Required

Executive SupportTeam ManagementHiringPerformance ManagementGlobal Operations

Preferred

IT SupportOnboarding

Stack & domain

Executive SupportHiringPerformance ManagementLeadershipCommunicationNegotiationLegal ServicesProfessional Services

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

The Head of EA Operations leads Harvey’s team of Executive Assistants - the first dedicated leader the function has had. As our leadership team and global footprint have grown, so has the group of EAs supporting them, largely one hire at a time. You’ll bring that group together as one team, owning hiring, standards, and coverage globally so every executive has consistent, reliable support and every EA has a leader invested in their development.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who has built and run an executive support team before, ideally in a fast-scaling environment.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Lead Harvey's Executive Assistants as one coordinated team, including directly managing EAs to our VPs, setting the standard for what great executive support looks like across every org and office.
  • Own hiring for the team end to end and make the match between each assistant and the executive(s) they support, with input from those leaders, managing transitions and re-matches as the org evolves.
  • Set shared expectations, service levels, and ways of working for the role, and partner with executives on each assistant's performance and development.
  • Drive leveling and compensation fairness across the EA team, working with leaders, Compensation, and People Business Partners.
  • Manage support coverage and ratios globally — keeping coverage reliable, balancing load across the team, and planning capacity ahead of new executive hires and expansion into new markets.
  • Provide interim, hands-on coverage when needed — stepping in to support a leader directly when a new executive starts before their EA is hired, or when an EA is out — so no executive is left without support.
  • Partner with the Onboarding, IT, and People Business Partner teams to give new executives a smooth, well-coordinated start, helping shape their first weeks.

WHAT YOU HAVE

  • Experience managing a team of Executive Assistants or executive-support professionals — hiring, developing, and setting the standard for others in the role.
  • A track record supporting C-level and senior leaders, with the judgment and presence to earn their trust.
  • Experience in a high-growth, fast-scaling company, where structure is built while the business keeps moving.
  • Strong operational instincts — you build the systems, playbooks, and ratios — paired with excellent judgment around sensitive, confidential information.
  • Experience managing across multiple offices and time zones, ideally globally.
  • Strong cross-functional leadership ability and executive communication skills, with experience influencing without direct authority across engineering, product, go-to-market, and G&A teams.
  • Bias toward ownership, speed, and accountability; you finish what you start and hold others to the same standard.

COMPENSATION

$187,600 - $258,000 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)

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