Content & Programming Senior Manager, Global Events

Harvey; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

Harvey is seeking an experienced Events lead to own FORUM and other global conferences. You will shape executive narratives, curate speakers, design sessions, and oversee editorial standards to ensure a high-quality, on-brand attendee experience.

The role blends editorial decisions with hands-on execution, managing a large speaker roster and coordinating with Product, Marketing, Creative, and Leadership to meet tight timelines.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in events, content, or programming roles for flagship conferences.
• Strong project management with multiple streams and hard dates.
• Experience creating world-class content for large in-person events.
• Experience managing speakers: outreach, scheduling, rehearsals, day-of support.
• Curious about people; knows customers well enough to pick relevant stories.
• Storyteller able to distill priorities into senior-level narratives.
• Strategic thinker who makes fast decisions and builds new plans.
• Process-focused: builds trackers, playbooks, and docs for a fast-moving program.
• Comfort working with Product, Marketing, Creative, and Leadership under tight timelines.
• High ownership, professionalism, tact, and judgment in ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Own the plan from concept to run-of-show, managing multiple workstreams to fixed dates.
• Project manage the Product Keynote end to end with cross-functional teams.
• Source, schedule, and manage 30+ speakers per event, from outreach to rehearsal.
• Build and maintain trackers, playbooks, and run-of-show documents for scalability.
• Curate the full agenda across stages to meet strategic event goals.
• Maintain Harvey's speaker bench with notes on topics and relationships.
• Recruit customer speakers and turn their work into on-stage content.
• Partner with Production, Marketing, Creative, and Enablement for live experience.
• Analyze post-event data to inform content strategy and formats.
• Provide Leadership with clear progress, risks, and decisions updates.

Skills

Event management

Project management

Speaker curation

Content strategy

Executive engagement

Tracking & playbooks

Narrative storytelling

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

This role owns what happens on stage at Harvey's global events, most notably FORUM, our conference series convening leaders from across the legal profession to explore how AI, new operating models, and shifting talent dynamics are reshaping how legal teams work. You'll decide what attendees see, hear, and experience: the executive narrative, the speaker lineup, the session design, and the editorial bar that makes every edition feel unmistakably Harvey.

This is an editorial role and an execution role in equal measure. Roughly half of your time goes to decisions and drafting: what earns a place on the program and how it's framed. The other half goes to driving people and deadlines: getting speakers confirmed and prepared, moving the Product Keynote across teams, and keeping dozens of moving pieces on schedule. The role sits at the intersection of content, product marketing, and executive engagement, and it's critical to making FORUM a high-quality moment for customers, prospects, and the legal community.

What You'll Do

• Own the plan from first concept to final run-of-show, managing multiple concurrent workstreams against fixed event dates.

• Project manage the Harvey Product Keynote end to end, working with Product and Product Marketing to decide what gets showcased and how, and driving content, rehearsals, and approvals to deadline.

• Source, schedule, and manage [30+] speakers per event, from first outreach through rehearsal and day-of support, including shaping talking points and running prep calls.

• Build and maintain the trackers, playbooks, and run-of-show documents (session trackers, timelines) that let programming scale across editions and geographies.

• Curate the full agenda: session descriptions, breakout talk tracks, and content across multiple stages, making sure every session earns its place and ladders up to the event's strategic goals.

• Build and maintain Harvey's speaker bench: a living database of customers, prospects, and industry voices, with notes on topics, speaking strength, and relationship owners.

• Get to know our customer base closely, working with Customer Engagement and Customer Success to spot, recruit, and prepare customer speakers, and turn their work into on-stage content before anyone asks.

• Partner across Production, Marketing, Creative, and Enablement so content decisions translate cleanly into the live event experience.

• Analyze post-event data and feedback to inform content strategy, speaker selection, and format decisions for future editions.

• Give Leadership clear, organized updates on progress, risks, and open decisions.

What You Have

• 7+ years of experience in events, content, or programming roles, ideally with exposure to flagship or high-visibility conferences.

• Strong project management skills, with a track record of running multiple concurrent workstreams for a high-visibility event with a hard date and a large speaker roster, without dropping details.

• Experience developing world-class content for large in-person events, including themes, session design, and speaker curation.

• Experience managing speakers directly: outreach, scheduling, rehearsals, and day-of support.

• Real curiosity about people and their work. You ask good questions, remember the answers, and want to know our customers well enough to know which stories belong on stage.

• A strong storyteller who can distill complex business and product priorities into narratives that resonate with senior stakeholders and attendees alike.

• A strategic thinker who can process disparate information quickly, make and communicate decisions fast, and build new plans and processes from scratch.

• A process-first mindset: comfortable building trackers, playbooks, and documentation that bring structure to a fast-moving program.

• Comfort partnering cross-functionally with Product, Product Marketing, Creative/Design, and Leadership, including at the executive level, while holding tight timelines.

• High ownership, professionalism, tact, and judgment, with the ability to operate under ambiguity.

• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, with a sharp eye for cutting jargon and filler from session copy and talk tracks.

Compensation

$114,500 - $171,700 USD

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