Corporate Business Development Manager, Legal Data
Hybrid (San Francisco)$240k - $260kFull-timePosted 5d ago
About the role
Role focused on sourcing, evaluating, negotiating, and integrating legal content partnerships to support Harvey’s product and GTM strategy in the AI-enabled knowledge work space.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute a strategic plan for legal content and data partnerships, aligned with Harvey's overall product and GTM strategy.
- Independently identify, evaluate, and establish a range of partnerships with legal content and data providers.
- Assess corpora on the merits: jurisdictional coverage, historical depth, update cadence, editorial enhancements, metadata quality, and rights scope.
- Negotiate complex licensing agreements, ensuring mutually beneficial terms and alignment with company goals.
- Conduct quantitative analysis, create business cases, and present them to executives.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, finance, legal and GTM teams to oversee the successful integration of new content sources into the product.
- Build and nurture long-term relationships with key partners to ensure mutual success and achievement of objectives.
- Operate autonomously, being both a proactive executor and strategic thinker at Harvey pace.
Qualifications
- You practiced law in the United States, or helped build the tools lawyers practice with.
- Strong preference for litigators with fluency in the legal research corpus; experience in BD, product, or corporate development is a plus.
- Proven ability to develop executive relationships, negotiate complex contracts, and problem-solve with external partners to drive distribution in new markets.
- Experience collaborating with product teams to develop and distribute new technology solutions.
- Team player with ability to collaborate across internal functions (Product, Legal, GTM, etc.).
- Demonstrated passion for Harvey's mission and understanding of AI’s potential in knowledge work.
- Comfort with ambiguity and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; able to influence without authority and drive urgency with empathy.
Skills
Required:Strategic partnership developmentLicensing negotiations
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
- Retirement benefits (401k match up to 4%)
- Flexible PTO
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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