Harvey

Privacy and AI Counsel, EMEA

Dublin · Hybrid · FullTime

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EmployerHarvey
LocationDublin
Work styleHybrid
Employment typeFullTime
Employer posted1 month ago

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.

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At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started.

Role Overview

Harvey’s in‑house legal team is a global group of lawyers and legal professionals operating across multiple disciplines. As we expand across EMEA, we are looking for a privacy lawyer to join our growing legal team. You will play a key role, working directly with our Head of Privacy, in maintaining and promoting a culture of privacy and security within the organization. In this role you will collaborate closely with legal colleagues in the commercial team and our sales/ Go-To-Market team, advise the engineering and product teams to ensure that our business practices adhere to privacy laws and regulations globally, and partner closely with the security function to safeguard and maintain the integrity of our data.

What You'll Do

Assist in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating Data Processing Agreements with our customers, subprocessors, service providers, and third-parties.

Help develop, maintain, and scale global privacy programs. This includes preparing Data Protection Impact Assessments to identify and mitigate privacy risks and Records of Processing in accordance with regulatory requirements.

Work cross functionally with talented product and engineering teams in evaluating the impact of privacy and data protection laws and regulatory guidance on exciting product developments.

Monitor and respond to changes in privacy laws and regulations, including AI regulations.

Support implementation and ongoing compliance with AI-specific regulation, including the EU AI Act, UK AI governance frameworks, and related guidance.

Assist in classification of AI systems, assessment of risk obligations, and development of internal AI governance controls, documentation, and processes.

Partner with legal, product, and compliance stakeholders on AI principles such as transparency, accountability, and human-oversight.

What You Have

Qualified lawyer with 4+ years of post-qualification experience in privacy and data protection

Proven expertise in EU and U.S. data protection law, with familiarity across global compliance frameworks

Excellent drafting and negotiation skills, with the confidence to represent Harvey on matters relating to data privacy, AI, and security

Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across legal and business teams

Highly responsive and detail-oriented, with the ability to balance strategic thinking and hands-on execution

Depending on your location, an Applicant Privacy Notice may apply to you. You can find all of our Applicant Privacy Notices here.

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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

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