Head of Global Recruiting Operations

Harvey; New York (NY); On-site; USD 196,000 - 294,000; Full time

Job summary

Harvey is seeking a Head of Global Recruiting Operations to lead systems, programs, and processes powering recruiting across all functions and regions. The role ensures a scalable, AI-native operating model that translates hiring plans into execution.

You will partner with recruiting leadership to drive analytics, workforce planning with Finance, and programs that elevate candidate experience and hiring manager engagement.

Qualifications

• 10+ years leading recruiting operations, systems, and enablement in global, high-growth organizations.
• Experience translating business goals into comprehensive recruiting strategies and scalable models.
• Deep expertise with modern recruiting platforms and global hiring compliance.
• Strong leadership and cross-functional stakeholder management to influence senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business leadership to translate long-term objectives into a global recruiting operations strategy.
• Develop and drive recruiting programs aligned with the strategy.
• Coordinate recruiting technology, workflows, and automation initiatives to support priorities.
• Collaborate with leaders to champion excellence and standards across hiring teams.
• Lead workforce and demand planning with Finance and business heads for global capacity planning.
• Develop a strategic talent analytics function to provide guidance and pipeline foresight.
• Enhance candidate experience and hiring manager engagement through world-class programs.

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

The Head of Global Recruiting Operations will lead the systems, programs, and processes that power and accelerate recruiting across every function and region. The Recruiting team's mission is to identify, attract, and hire world-class talent, and this role ensures the operational and programmatic infrastructure supports this goal. This position oversees the recruiting operating model end to end: coordination, systems, analytics, programs and enablement that support our hiring teams and ambitions hiring goals, ensuring a coherent model for a global organization. This leader will partner cross functionally and with recruiting leadership to translate hiring plans into consistent, well-run execution. It is an exciting opportunity to operationalize talent acquisition at scale in an AI native environment.

What You'll Do

• Partner proactively with business leadership and the recruiting team to translate long term business objectives into a unified, high impact global recruiting operations strategy

• Develop and drive recruiting programs that align with the overall recruiting strategy

• Drive strategic alignment across recruiting technology, operational workflows, and automation initiatives to directly support overarching organizational priorities

• Collaborate with recruiting leaders to champion excellence, consistent standards, and strategic capability building across all hiring teams

• Lead integrated workforce and demand planning in lockstep with Finance and business heads, steering executive decision-making and strategic capacity planning globally

• Drive the continued development of a strategic talent analytics function to provide business leaders and recruiting executives with actionable guidance, pipeline foresight, and high-level productivity insights

• Influence and elevate candidate experience and hiring manager engagement through world class programs and enablement

What You Have

• 10+ years leading recruiting operations, systems, and enablement teams in global, high-growth organizations.

• Demonstrated success in translating overarching business goals into comprehensive recruiting strategies, executive analytics frameworks, and scalable operational models.

• Deep expertise with modern recruiting and AI platforms and global hiring compliance across multiple regions.

• Strong leadership and cross-functional stakeholder management skills to influence senior leadership.

Compensation

$196,200 - $294,200 USD

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