OPT Legal Director Jobs
Legal Director jobs on OPT require employers to sponsor your H-1B visa or other long-term visa before your authorization expires. Most roles demand a J.D. and bar admission. STEM OPT does not apply here, so your standard 12-month window is the timeline employers will work against.
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Boston
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Hybrid
Department
Go to Market
Compensation
* $180K – $250K • Offers Equity • OTE 75/25
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
As a Legal Engineer Associate, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring our law firm and in-house customer users are set up for success. You will deliver tailored training, create education strategies that align with legal workflows, and serve as a trusted guide to customers adopting Harvey across practice groups and legal departments.
Your legal training and experience will allow you to connect deeply with our users, helping them to translate their own legal acumen into productive and innovative use of Harvey’s platform. You’ll work across a diverse range of clients, primarily mid-market and enterprise customers, and partner closely with Sales, Customer Success, and Product.
This is a high-impact, customer-facing role ideal for someone with a few years of legal practice experience and a passion for shaping the future of legal work.
- Deliver engaging and customized product training to attorneys at leading law firms and corporate legal departments
- Partner with Account Executives and Customer Success Managers and more senior Legal Engineers to understand client goals to design and deliver enablement sessions that maximize value
- Support onboarding, expansion, and renewal efforts by ensuring users are confident and proficient with the platform
- Gather feedback from training sessions and pass insights to Product and Engineering teams to inform development
- Build scalable training content, including documentation, videos, and quick reference guides tailored to practice areas
- Evangelize Harvey internally and externally as a leader in AI-powered legal technology
What You Have
- A J.D. and typically 1–3 years of relevant practical experience in legal practice, legal technology or a related role.
- Practical experience building agents, prompts or workflows for legal use cases, plus the legal judgment to know when you need guidance. We are interested in what you have built and how you tested and improved it.
- Clear communication, curiosity about AI and the ability to become fluent in a product quickly through hands-on use.
- An appetite for frequent customer interactions, repeatable delivery and detailed work on useful customer resources.
- Strong follow-through and comfort incorporating direct feedback. We welcome candidates from a range of schools, employers and routes into legal work.
Compensation
$180,000 - $250,000 USD OTE 75/25
Depending on your location, an Applicant Privacy Notice may apply to you. You can find all of our Applicant Privacy Notices here.
LI-LS1
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
Location
Boston
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Hybrid
Department
Go to Market
Compensation
* $180K – $250K • Offers Equity • OTE 75/25
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
As a Legal Engineer Associate, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring our law firm and in-house customer users are set up for success. You will deliver tailored training, create education strategies that align with legal workflows, and serve as a trusted guide to customers adopting Harvey across practice groups and legal departments.
Your legal training and experience will allow you to connect deeply with our users, helping them to translate their own legal acumen into productive and innovative use of Harvey’s platform. You’ll work across a diverse range of clients, primarily mid-market and enterprise customers, and partner closely with Sales, Customer Success, and Product.
This is a high-impact, customer-facing role ideal for someone with a few years of legal practice experience and a passion for shaping the future of legal work.
- Deliver engaging and customized product training to attorneys at leading law firms and corporate legal departments
- Partner with Account Executives and Customer Success Managers and more senior Legal Engineers to understand client goals to design and deliver enablement sessions that maximize value
- Support onboarding, expansion, and renewal efforts by ensuring users are confident and proficient with the platform
- Gather feedback from training sessions and pass insights to Product and Engineering teams to inform development
- Build scalable training content, including documentation, videos, and quick reference guides tailored to practice areas
- Evangelize Harvey internally and externally as a leader in AI-powered legal technology
What You Have
- A J.D. and typically 1–3 years of relevant practical experience in legal practice, legal technology or a related role.
- Practical experience building agents, prompts or workflows for legal use cases, plus the legal judgment to know when you need guidance. We are interested in what you have built and how you tested and improved it.
- Clear communication, curiosity about AI and the ability to become fluent in a product quickly through hands-on use.
- An appetite for frequent customer interactions, repeatable delivery and detailed work on useful customer resources.
- Strong follow-through and comfort incorporating direct feedback. We welcome candidates from a range of schools, employers and routes into legal work.
Compensation
$180,000 - $250,000 USD OTE 75/25
Depending on your location, an Applicant Privacy Notice may apply to you. You can find all of our Applicant Privacy Notices here.
LI-LS1
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
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship in Legal Director
Target in-house legal departments at large employers
Large corporations with established HR and legal teams process visa sponsorships regularly. They have the infrastructure to handle H-1B visa petitions without treating it as an unusual burden, making them far more receptive than small law firms.
Lead with bar admission and jurisdiction early
Legal Director roles require active bar membership in a relevant state. Confirm your bar admission status and jurisdiction in your resume header and cover letter so hiring managers immediately know you meet the non-negotiable licensing requirement before sponsorship comes up.
Frame your OPT timeline around the H-1B cap schedule
H-1B registration opens in March each year, with an October 1 start date. If you join a role in time to be included in that cycle, sponsorship becomes a straightforward transition rather than an emergency, which reassures cautious hiring teams.
Highlight cross-border legal expertise as a differentiator
Your international background is a genuine asset for Legal Director roles involving international contracts, compliance, or regulatory matters. Positioning your perspective as additive to the legal team reframes sponsorship from a cost into a strategic investment in specialized capability.
Engage outside counsel to educate reluctant employers
Some employers hesitate not from unwillingness but from unfamiliarity with the process. Offering to connect their HR team with an immigration attorney, or providing a concise sponsorship overview document, removes the friction that prevents otherwise interested employers from moving forward.
Prioritize employers with a documented H-1B sponsorship history
Public LCA disclosure data shows which employers have previously filed for legal professionals. Concentrating your search on companies with a track record in this area eliminates guesswork and significantly improves the probability of a successful sponsorship conversation.
Legal Director OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Can I work as a Legal Director on OPT?
Yes, if your J.D. or relevant law-related degree supports the role and your employer is willing to sponsor you for long-term work authorization. Legal Director positions qualify as specialty occupations under H-1B standards. Because STEM OPT extension does not apply to law degrees, your standard OPT period gives you 12 months to secure sponsorship.
Do Legal Director employers commonly sponsor H-1B visas?
Sponsorship rates vary significantly by employer type. Large corporations with in-house legal departments and multinational companies are the most consistent sponsors, since they process H-1B petitions routinely. Smaller law firms and nonprofits sponsor far less frequently due to cost and administrative complexity. Focusing your search on companies with prior LCA filings for legal roles improves your odds considerably.
Does bar admission affect my OPT eligibility or sponsorship prospects?
Bar admission does not affect your OPT eligibility, but it is typically a hard requirement for a Legal Director title. Employers sponsoring you for H-1B will expect active bar membership in the relevant jurisdiction as part of the specialty occupation justification. If you are still awaiting bar results, some employers will discuss conditional offers while your application is pending.
Where can I find Legal Director jobs that sponsor OPT students?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for F-1 OPT and visa-sponsored job seekers. You can browse Legal Director openings from employers who have indicated willingness to sponsor work authorization, which filters out the significant portion of postings where sponsorship is not available. Searching a general job board wastes time on roles that will not advance once your visa status is disclosed.
What happens to my OPT status if a Legal Director role falls through before my H-1B is filed?
Your OPT authorization is tied to your current employer. If a role ends before an H-1B petition is filed on your behalf, you enter the 60-day grace period during which you can seek new employment or change status. You cannot work during the grace period. Finding a new sponsoring employer before the grace period expires is critical to maintaining lawful status.