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Harvey is an AI platform transforming legal and professional services through frontier agentic AI and enterprise-grade infrastructure. The company is scaling rapidly with strong product-market fit and world-class investor backing, founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco.
You will serve as Harvey's first dedicated Compensation Business Partner for international markets (EMEA and APAC), based in the EMEA region. This is a foundational role to shape how Harvey approaches compensation as it scales globally.
Key responsibilities:
- Act as the primary compensation advisor for EMEA and APAC regions, developing deep expertise in regional talent markets, hiring needs, and competitive positioning
- Partner with People Business Partners, business leaders, and recruiters on compensation decisions including new hires, promotions, internal mobility, and complex offer scenarios
- Advise on market competitiveness and candidate-specific compensation situations, particularly with recruiting
- Evolve Harvey's international compensation strategy including geographic differentiation, market positioning, salary structures, and equity approaches
- Translate Harvey's equity philosophy across markets where candidate expectations and familiarity with US-style equity vary significantly
- Research emerging compensation practices and talent trends in the AI market, converting external data into actionable recommendations
- Conduct market analyses using compensation survey data and apply business judgment
- Collaborate with the broader compensation team on cycles, benchmarking, band development, and company-wide programs with international considerations
- Identify which US practices translate internationally and recommend changes as Harvey enters new markets
- Build infrastructure, principles, and enablement to scale Harvey's international compensation approach
You will operate in a high-growth, fast-moving environment where you combine deep compensation expertise with strong business judgment, exceptional partnership skills, and intellectual curiosity about the evolving AI talent market.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5-7+ years of compensation experience
- Experience supporting international compensation across EMEA and/or APAC
- Experience at a US-headquartered company with strong understanding of how global compensation programs are designed and adapted for international markets
- Meaningful experience with equity compensation, including ability to explain and advise on equity in markets with different norms and expectations
- Experience in high-growth startup or scale-up environment; comfortable building while company and market change
- Strong knowledge of compensation fundamentals: market benchmarking, salary structures, job leveling, offers, promotions, retention, pay decisions
- Exceptional business partnership skills; ability to build trust while challenging assumptions
- Strong analytical skills paired with excellent judgment; know when data is telling you something and when it requires additional context
- Intellectual curiosity and genuine appetite to become expert on AI talent market, including proactive research on competitors and compensation trends
- Comfortable operating with ambiguity and building new approaches rather than relying on established playbook
- Ability to communicate complicated compensation concepts simply and credibly to audiences with varying levels of compensation expertise
About Harvey
Legal / Compliance / Risk; AI / Data / Infrastructure — AI platform for legal and professional services work.
