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title: 'Director of Detection and Response at Harvey'
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# Director of Detection and Response at Harvey

- **Company:** [Harvey](https://feeny.ai/companies/harvey)
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/harvey/ac0d8c8e-0b4a-4e33-9bac-d3547377e9dd

## Job description

## 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. 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 highly sensitive information and critical business workflows, making security fundamental to everything we build. We’re looking for a Director of Detection and Response to build and lead the team that identifies threats, responds decisively to incidents, and turns what we learn into stronger defenses.

You will own Harvey’s Detection and Response strategy, technical direction, and operational readiness across our production platform and corporate environment. Working with the CISO and leaders across Engineering, Infrastructure, IT, Legal, and Customer Trust, you’ll translate business risk into a focused program that protects customer data and enables Harvey to move quickly with confidence.

This is a technical leadership role for someone who can build an exceptional team, earn the trust of senior engineers, and bring clarity to high-stakes situations. You’ll develop a function that scales through software, automation, and strong partnerships, while staying close enough to the work to challenge detection designs and guide complex investigations.

## What You'll Do

- Build and lead the organization. Hire and develop detection engineers, incident responders, and technical leaders; establish clear ownership and a culture of curiosity, sound judgment, and continuous learning. Own the roadmap, staffing plan, and investment decisions.
- Own incident response and crisis readiness. Lead Harvey’s response to major security incidents, coordinating investigation, containment, recovery, and executive communication. Build clear severity criteria, escalation paths, playbooks, and sustainable 24/7 coverage for critical threats; develop incident commanders and cross-functional responders through exercises.
- Build detection as an engineering capability. Set the technical direction for telemetry, detection pipelines, forensic tooling, and response automation across cloud, endpoint, identity, SaaS, and application environments. Apply software engineering practices to test detections, improve signal quality, and reduce manual work; evaluate AI-assisted investigation with measurable quality and appropriate human oversight.
- Focus defenses on meaningful threats. Use threat intelligence, hunting, and an attacker’s perspective to prioritize scenarios that matter to Harvey, including account compromise, data theft, insider risk, privileged-access abuse, and abuse of AI-enabled workflows. Partner with offensive security and platform owners to validate coverage and close blind spots.
- Make response a company capability. Partner with Engineering, IT, Legal, Privacy, Communications, and Customer Trust on sensitive investigations and crisis decisions. Establish clear escalation and decision authority, preserve evidence, and provide accurate findings to support Legal-led notification and disclosure decisions. Prepare cross-functional responders to contribute when incidents require broader support.
- Turn incidents into lasting improvements. Drive blameless reviews and ensure corrective actions have owners, deadlines, and verified outcomes. Measure detection coverage, time to detect and contain, recurring failure modes, and responder workload, and use those results to guide investments and reduce customer impact.

## What You Have

- Experience building and leading Detection and Response, incident response, or security engineering teams in a technology company with complex production systems. A record of hiring strong engineers, developing technical leaders, and scaling both the team and its operating model.
- Deep incident response experience and demonstrated judgment during serious security events. You can lead investigations with incomplete information, make timely containment decisions, and communicate clearly with executives, engineers, and business partners. You bring composure, integrity, and discretion to sensitive investigations and decisions under scrutiny.
- Strong technical foundations in cloud infrastructure, operating systems, networking, identity, and attacker tradecraft, with depth in detection engineering, threat hunting, or digital forensics. You understand how to investigate across corporate and production environments.
- An engineering approach to security operations, backed by experience building detection platforms, investigation tools, or response automation. You can evaluate architecture and code, guide senior engineers, and make practical decisions about what to build, buy, or retire.
- The ability to turn business risk into a focused strategy and deliver it through influence and partnership. You balance urgent response with long-term engineering work and build a demanding, supportive environment where people can do their best work.

Experience protecting enterprise SaaS, sensitive customer data, or AI/ML environments is especially valuable, as is experience investigating insider threats, partnering on privileged-access governance, or leading response under regulatory and public scrutiny.

At Harvey, you’ll shape how an AI company detects and responds to threats as its products and customers evolve. Your team’s work will directly protect customer trust and help make security a durable foundation for the business.

## Compensation

$280,000 - $385,000 USD

Depending on your location, an Applicant Privacy Notice may apply to you. You can find all of our Applicant Privacy Notices [here](https://harveyai.notion.site/Harvey-Candidate-Privacy-Notices-319ac3fcdd7a803bb807d5094f249922?pvs=74).

## #LI-DZ1

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

## About Harvey

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Harvey builds domain-specific AI software for legal and professional services, enabling law firms and in-house teams to automate research, contract analysis, due diligence, and complex workflows.
- **Entity Type**: Private (backed by leading venture capital firms)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Winston Weinberg (CEO), Gabriel Pereyra (President)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI software for legal and professional services (LegalTech)
- **Target customers**: B2B – large law firms (AmLaw 100), in-house legal teams at Fortune 500 enterprises, mid-sized firms, and professional service networks across 60+ countries.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To enable legal and professional services teams to focus on high-value work by providing a secure, expert AI platform that handles research, drafting, and complex workflows.

## Products & Services
- **Harvey Assistant**: Ask questions, analyze documents, and draft faster with domain-specific AI (SaaS).
- **Harvey Vault**: Securely store, organize, and bulk-analyze legal documents (SaaS).
- **Harvey Knowledge**: Research complex legal, regulatory, and tax questions across domains (SaaS).
- **Harvey Agents**: Purpose-built agents that execute complex legal work end-to-end (SaaS).
- **Harvey Contract Intelligence**: Surface insights, strengthen negotiations, and accelerate reviews (SaaS).
- **Harvey Command Center**: Analytics, benchmarking, and agentic insights for leading AI transformation (SaaS).
- **Harvey Mobile**: Mobile access to stay productive from anywhere (SaaS).
- **Harvey Shared Spaces**: Collaborate with legal teams across organizations in secure shared workspaces (SaaS).
- **Harvey Ecosystem**: Integration with existing tools to ground answers in trusted sources (API/platform).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (company is private).
- **Key Metric**: Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) – reported in press but exact figure not disclosed; strong growth implied by 1,500+ customers and rapid hiring.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, GV (Google Ventures), OpenAI Startup Fund, Coatue, Andreessen Horowitz, EQT.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Named Time100 Most Influential Companies (2025).
  - LinkedIn Top 50 Startup of 2025.
  - CNBC Disruptor 50 List.
  - 1,500+ customers across 60+ countries, including AmLaw 100 firms.
  - Headcount: ~300 employees (as of mid-2025), with aggressive hiring (254 active job postings).
  - Office expansion: San Francisco, New York City, London.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Domain specialization**: AI models trained specifically for legal and professional services, not generic LLMs.
- **Enterprise security**: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001/27701/42001, GDPR, CCPA compliance – meeting law firm security requirements.
- **Deep investor backing**: World-class VC network provides strategic guidance and access.
- **Strong product‑market fit**: Rapid adoption by top-tier law firms and in-house teams, with high switching costs due to embedded workflows.
- **First‑mover in agentic legal AI**: Purpose‑built agents execute end‑to‑end tasks, differentiating from simple document Q&A tools.

## Strategic Focus
- **Customization, collaboration, and simplicity**: Helping teams embed expertise into Harvey, collaborate across firms, and reduce complexity via agentic workflows.
- **Expansion beyond legal**: Long‑term ambition to transform professional services broadly (consulting, accounting, etc.).
- **Product innovation**: Continued investment in agentic AI, mobile access, and ecosystem integrations.
- **Global growth**: Scaling sales and engineering teams in existing hubs and expanding into new markets.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast‑paced, collaborative, ambitious. Values include **Decisiveness** (“take the square root of the weather” – avoid overanalysis), **Simplicity**, and **Job’s Not Finished** (continuous improvement).
- **Work environment**: Hybrid – 3+ days per week in office for roles based in San Francisco, New York City, or London. Some fully remote positions available (clearly marked).
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive health/dental/vision insurance, 401(k) match, paid parental leave (immediately eligible), annual professional development stipend, in‑office daily lunch, and more.
- **Growth opportunities**: Rapidly scaling (~300 employees, 254 open roles) provides internal mobility and ownership of impactful projects.
- **Engineering culture**: Strong blend of AI research (DeepMind background) and legal domain expertise. CTO Siva Gurumurthy recently joined. Emphasis on building secure, enterprise‑grade products.

## Sources
1. [harvey.ai](https://www.harvey.ai/)
2. [harvey.ai/company](https://www.harvey.ai/company)
3. [harvey.ai/blog/landing-a-job-at-harvey](https://www.harvey.ai/blog/landing-a-job-at-harvey)
4. [linkedin.com/company/harvey-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/harvey-ai)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/harvey](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/harvey)

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