Director of Detection and Response

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.

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.

• 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…