Legal Operations Specialist Jobs in New York
Legal Operations Specialist jobs in New York represent one of the most active markets in the country, concentrated in corporate legal departments, BigLaw firms, and financial services institutions, with openings from entry-level coordinator roles through senior director positions. The heaviest hiring is in New York City, with additional demand in White Plains and Albany, where employers like JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Sullivan and Cromwell maintain substantial legal operations functions. The most in-demand specialties are e-discovery management, legal technology implementation, and matter management. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Location
New York
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Hybrid
Department
Legal
Compensation
- $99.2K – $148.8K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in our equity plan and benefits program. Benefits include, but not limited to: Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits (401k match up to 4%), and flexible PTO.
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
We are looking for a Legal Operations Project Manager to join our legal team to help modernize how Legal operates through both best-in-class legal operations practices and hands-on use of AI. By combining traditional legal ops experience with familiarity with AI tools and automation platforms, you will help turn operational problems into scalable, AI-enabled solutions. You will partner closely with Legal and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver on the Legal Ops roadmap and help ensure that Legal’s tooling, data, and processes support Harvey’s rapid growth. It is a unique opportunity to be a key contributor to an AI-native legal operations function inside a company that is itself defining the future of AI for legal work.
What You'll Do
Manage end-to-end legal operations projects, including gathering requirements, designing and improving workflows, coordinating cross-functional stakeholders and managing implementation and iteration for areas such as intake, matter management, advice requests and policy changes
Translate priorities and direction into concrete project plans, timelines and execution steps, serving as the connective tissue between strategy and day-to-day delivery
Support AI enablement across Legal, including identifying use cases, evaluating and piloting AI tools (including Harvey), and helping with training and adoption efforts
Contribute to building and maintain legal metrics, dashboards and operational reporting across workload, turnaround times, risk patterns and operational performance
Support the evaluation, implementation, administration and continuous improvement of the legal technology stack and vendor relationships across knowledge management, matter tracking, e-billing and spend management, document management and contract-related tooling
Develop and maintain legal knowledge assets, including templates, playbooks, FAQs, self-service resources and internal documentation
Support routine operational, administrative, systems and data work as priorities evolve
What You Have
3 to 6 years of experience in an operations or project management role, with responsibility for running and improving cross-functional systems, processes or programs; experience may come from legal operations, business operations, systems operations or a related function
Meaningful experience working in or closely with an in-house legal team, with a practical understanding of how Legal supports the business
A builder’s mindset: comfortable owning many moving pieces at once and energized by creating structure in a function that is still taking shape, rather than optimizing an established playbook
Experience contributing to the design and implementation of processes, systems and programs for Legal or other G&A functions, from requirements gathering through rollout and iteration
Comfortable working with both Legal and technical teams, helping turn business needs into practical process and system requirements, with experience or strong interest in applying AI tools in a legal or professional services setting
Comfortable operating with general guidance, seeking direction on new or unfamiliar issues, and balancing competing priorities and sustaining momentum in a globally distributed organization
Strong analytical and systems-thinking skills, with familiarity across legal technology (e.g. matter management, knowledge management, ticketing and document repositories) and experience building and interpreting metrics
Bonus Points
Hands-on experience with CLM or contracting systems
Practical experience building or deploying AI-driven workflows, with familiarity with agentic behavior, orchestration, prompt engineering, performance metrics and safety protocols
Experience helping design AI guidance, guardrails, or adoption programs for a legal or professional services team
Compensation
$99,200 - $148,800 USD
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We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made by emailing accommodations@harvey.ai
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Legal Operations Specialist Job Market in New York
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Top Industries Hiring
- Law & Legal Services
- Technology & Software
What New York Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in legal operations specialist jobs across New York.
- Bachelor's degree in legal studies, business, or a related field required
- Experience with legal technology platforms such as eBillingHub, SimpleLegal, or Relativity
- Familiarity with contract lifecycle management and matter management systems
- Strong project management skills with experience coordinating cross-functional legal teams
- Knowledge of e-discovery processes and litigation support workflows
- Proficiency in data analysis and reporting using Excel, Power BI, or similar tools
Legal Operations Specialist Jobs in New York: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a legal operations specialist in New York?
Most legal operations specialists in New York enter the field with a bachelor's degree in legal studies, business administration, or a related discipline, sometimes supplemented by a paralegal certificate from an ABA-approved program. New York does not require a state license for this role, but employers strongly favor candidates who have completed coursework in legal technology or hold a Certified Legal Manager credential. Many professionals move into legal operations from paralegal, contract administration, or litigation support roles within New York law firms or corporate legal departments.
Which companies hire legal operations specialists in New York?
Employers hiring legal operations specialists in New York right now include White & Case Llp, DDN, and Lyft, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. New York's concentration of global financial institutions and Am Law 100 firms means demand is particularly strong among organizations managing high-volume litigation, regulatory compliance, and vendor spend.
Which New York cities have the most legal operations specialist jobs?
New York and Rochester are the cities with the most legal operations specialist openings in New York. New York City dominates the distribution because it hosts the headquarters of major banks, insurance companies, and a dense cluster of large law firms, while White Plains and Albany draw demand from regional corporate legal teams and state government agencies that maintain dedicated legal operations functions.
Are there remote legal operations specialist jobs in New York?
Yes, and more than most fields, because legal operations work is largely desk-based, technology-driven, and process-oriented rather than requiring a physical presence. About 71% of legal operations specialist openings tied to New York are remote or hybrid as of August 2026, reflecting how normalized flexible arrangements have become in corporate legal departments. Roles focused on legal technology administration, vendor management, and data analytics tend to be the most remote-friendly.
How can I get hired as a legal operations specialist in New York with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is starting as a legal coordinator, paralegal, or litigation support analyst at a New York law firm or corporate legal department, then moving laterally once you have exposure to matter management systems or billing workflows. Large New York employers including major financial institutions and Am Law 100 firms regularly hire legal operations associates or legal technology specialists at the junior level. Building hands-on experience with platforms like Relativity or eBillingHub, or earning a paralegal certificate from an ABA-approved New York program, significantly strengthens an entry-level application.
Where can I find and apply to legal operations specialist jobs in New York?
You can find and apply to legal operations specialist jobs in New York on Migrate Mate, which lists current New York openings updated regularly. Find the roles that fit your experience and specialty and apply directly to each one.
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