Head of Security Engineering

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 Jobs Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information, we believe simplicity is what scales, and were never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive, wed love to build with you.

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

Role Overview

Harvey is building AI-native software for professional services. Our customers trust us with some of the worlds most sensitive information, making security fundamental to everything we build. As Harvey continues to scale, were looking for a Head of Product Security to define how security is embedded into our engineering organization-not as a gatekeeper, but as an engineering capability that enables teams to build quickly and securely.

As Head of Product Security, you will define and execute Harveys product security strategy. Working closely with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and Security leadership, youll translate Harveys risk appetite into clear engineering expectations, security standards, and technical guardrails that scale with the company.

Youll build and lead a team of Product Security Engineers embedded across our product and platform organizations. Each engineer will own a portion of Harveys production surface, becoming the trusted security partner for their teams-helping shape architecture, influence design decisions, build security tooling, and occasionally write code to solve security challenges. Your team will be the bridge between Engineering and the broader Security organization, ensuring security is built into the product from the start.

What Youll Do

• Build and lead Harveys Product Security organization, hiring and developing a high-performing team.

• Define the security standards and engineering practices that protect Harveys products and customer data.

• Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to embed security into architecture, development, and delivery.

• Translate business risk into practical technical guidance that enables engineering teams to move quickly and securely.

• Drive security through engineering by investing in automation, developer tooling, and secure-by-default platforms.

• Serve as the executive security partner for Product and Engineering, helping prioritize security investments and navigate technical tradeoffs.

What You Have

• Experience leading Product Security or Application Security teams at a high-growth technology company.

• Strong engineering background with deep expertise in modern application security and cloud-native architectures.

• A track record of building engineering-first security programs that scale through influence, tooling, and partnerships-not process alone.

• Experience hiring, mentoring, and developing exceptional security engineers and technical leaders.

• The ability to influence executives while earning credibility with senior engineers through sound technical judgment.

This is an opportunity to define how security scales at one of the fastest-growing AI companies in the world. Youll build the organization, shape our engineering culture, and help ensure Harvey continues to earn the trust of our customers while enabling the business to move fast.

Compensation

$285,000 - $ 350,000 USD

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We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made by emailing accommodations@harvey.ai