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# Business Consultant, Risk and Compliance at Harbor

- **Company:** Harbor
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/harborglobal/jobs/5250239007

## Job description

Harbor is seeking an experienced Business Consultant to join our growing team.  As an experienced Business Consultant, you will lead significant portions of complex client engagements and serve as a trusted advisor to business and project stakeholders largely focused on the business acceptance and management of regulatory risk within law firms. You will shape solutions, guide delivery, manage risks, and help ensure that client outcomes are practical, scalable, and measurable.

You will bring strong consulting judgment, business analysis capability, and client presence to engagements involving process transformation, technology implementation, data strategy, and operational improvement. You will also help elevate the practice by mentoring junior team members and strengthening Harbor’s delivery methods.

This is a remote position that can work from anywhere in the United States, with preference given to those candidates who can work hybrid from our Chicago office headquarters.

What You’ll Do:

- Lead client workstreams from discovery through implementation, including scoping, requirements gathering, solution design, testing, deployment, and adoption.
- Serve as a primary day-to-day client contact, building trusted relationships and facilitating productive stakeholder discussions about meeting regulatory requirements in professional services firms.
- Translate complex business requirements into clear, scalable process, technology, data, and operating-model recommendations.
- Contribute to the development and management of consulting plans, timelines, deliverables, risks, dependencies, and status reporting.
- Analyze current-state law, processes, systems, and data to identify improvement opportunities and recommend practical solutions.
- Guide solution configuration, data migration planning, testing, quality assurance, and change-management activities as applicable.
- Identify and manage delivery risks, issues, and escalations; recommend timely course corrections to maintain engagement quality.
- Create and present executive-ready materials that clearly communicate findings, recommendations, decisions, and outcomes.
- Partner with sales and engagement leadership on scoping conversations, estimates, and proposed approaches when needed.
- Contribute to Harbor’s consulting methodology, reusable assets, quality standards, and continuous-improvement efforts.

Required qualifications:

- You will have worked within a law firm or other regulated professional service firm, ideally having had exposure to the risk or business acceptance functions.  Alternatively you will have worked for a management consultancy providing advice to business process advice to professional services firms.
- Demonstrated experience leading substantial workstreams or complex projects in a client-facing environment which were focused on business process optimization including the implementation or adaptation of technology to support the changes.
- Bachelor’s degree in business, information systems, finance, or a related field.
- Strong ability to move from ambiguous business challenges to structured, actionable solutions.
- Experience managing stakeholder expectations, facilitating workshops, and communicating effectively with both executives and technical teams.
- Advanced analytical skills and strong proficiency with Excel, presentation tools, and business systems or data platforms.
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities, deliver high-quality work, and exercise sound judgment in fast-moving environments.
- A highly collaborative, self-directed working style and experience partnering with cross-functional and globally distributed teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience in professional services, legal, financial services, or another complex, regulated corporate environment.
- Experience leading enterprise software, workflow, data migration and business-process transformation engagements.
- Familiarity with SaaS applications, integrations and APIs, business intelligence tools, or data-quality practices.
- Master’s degree or a consulting, project-management, or process-improvement certification.

About Us:

Harbor is the preeminent provider of expert services across strategy, legal technology, operations, and intelligence. Our globally integrated team of 900+ strategists, technologists, and specialists navigate alongside our clients – leading law firms, corporations, and their law departments – to provide essential resources and invaluable insights. Anchored in a rich heritage of deep knowledge, steadfast relationships, and mutual respect, our unwavering dedication lies in shaping the future of the legal industry and fostering enduring partnerships within our community and ecosystem.

Harbor is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, civil union status, national origin, ancestry, age, parental status, disabled status, veteran status, or any other legally protected classification, in accordance with applicable law.

## About Harbor

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Harbor Global is a globally integrated legal technology and consulting services firm that helps law firms and corporate law departments achieve breakthrough outcomes through strategy, technology, operations, and intelligence.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped; no public funding rounds disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Chicago, Illinois, United States (primary hub; major offices also in Moncton, Manila, London, and Sydney)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Legal Technology and Consulting Services
- **Target customers**: B2B – leading law firms, corporations, and their in-house legal departments
- **Mission**: To be a globally integrated organization where colleagues, clients, and partners can thrive, with an ambitious commitment to client success.

## Products & Services
- **Legal Technology + Operations**: Advisory, implementation, and operational support for legal technology systems and workflows.
- **Research + Intelligence**: Expert solutions in research, library, and information management to address complex information challenges.
- **Vendor Governance + Sourcing**: Vendor management and sourcing solutions to minimize risks and optimize controls and compliance.
- **Strategy + Transformation**: Combining industry insights with strategy, technology, and business consulting to help clients set and execute their direction.
- **Harbor Labs**: Legal engineering solutions that help enterprises use advanced technology to accelerate the speed of business.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Over 900 industry experts globally (team of ~800–900 employees, as stated on the company website)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available
- **Growth Signals**: Currently listing 30 open roles on Greenhouse (July 2025/2026); expansion of Data & AI Strategy leadership (Senior Director, Senior Manager); global remote-first hiring across US, Canada, UK, Australia, and Philippines.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Multidisciplinary integration**: Teams are organized into specialist groups aligned with key client functions, enabling seamless collaboration across legal, technology, operations, and intelligence.
- **Remote-first culture**: A significant portion of the 800+ team works from home, supported by offices and co-located workspaces – a model that attracts top talent globally.
- **Deep domain expertise**: A "deep bench" of experts spanning legal technology, sourcing, research, and transformation, allowing tailored solutions for complex legal challenges.

## Strategic Focus
- **Data & AI**: Recent hires for Senior Director and Senior Manager of Data & AI Strategy signal a push to embed AI and data analytics into client solutions.
- **Client relationship expansion**: Emphasis on building lasting connections and fostering community within the legal industry.
- **Global growth**: Continued expansion of remote teams and office hubs in key jurisdictions (US, Canada, UK, Australia, Philippines).

## Why Work Here
- **Flexible work environment**: Remote-first culture with the option to work from home, co-located workspaces, or on-site with clients. Offices available in major hubs.
- **Comprehensive benefits**: Medical, dental, vision, mental health support, life insurance, disability, wellness benefits, retirement savings with employer matching, flexible PTO, parental leave, and statutory holidays.
- **Career development**: Training and development programs, employee assistance, and a clear interview process that may include behavioral, case-study, or technical interviews.
- **Culture**: Values-driven organization focused on client success, inclusive community, resilient connections, and collaboration. Described as a place where employees can "work amongst the stars."

## Sources
1. [harborglobal.com](https://harborglobal.com/)
2. [harborglobal.com/careers/about-harbor](https://harborglobal.com/careers/about-harbor/)
3. [harborglobal.com/careers/for-applicants](https://harborglobal.com/careers/for-applicants/)
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/harborglobal](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/harborglobal)
5. [harborglobal.com/careers](https://harborglobal.com/careers/)

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