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Harness

Legal Specialist

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  • Full Time
  • $75,000 - $85,000/year
  • Remote
  • San Francisco, CA
September 4, 2025

Job Description

Harness is a high-growth company that is disrupting the software delivery market. Our mission is to enable the 30 million software developers in the world to deliver code to their users reliably, efficiently, securely and quickly, increasing customers’ pace of innovation while improving the developer experience. We offer solutions for every step of the software delivery lifecycle to build, test, secure, deploy and manage reliability, feature flags and cloud costs. The Harness Software Delivery Platform includes modules for CI, CD, Cloud Cost Management, Feature Flags, Service Reliability Management, Security Testing Orchestration, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights and continues to expand at an incredibly fast pace.
 
Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, who founded AppDynamics and sold it to Cisco for $3.7B. We’re backed with $425M in venture financing from top-tier VC and strategic firms, including J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Adage Capital Partners, Balyasny Asset Management, Gaingels, Harmonic Growth Partners, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Alkeon Capital, Battery Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Thomvest Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.
Position Summary
We are looking for a smart, driven, and detail-oriented Legal Specialist to join our growing Legal team. This is a high-impact role that blends contracts management, legal operations, corporate governance, and cross-functional coordination across a fast-paced, enterprise SaaS environment. This role is ideal for someone early in their legal or tech career who wants to learn and grow alongside experienced in-house counsel.
About the role
  • Manage contract workflows from intake to signature, ensuring contracts are appropriately triaged, approved, and archived
  • Assist with completion of RFPs, vendor intake forms, and due diligence questionnaires, with guidance from counsel
  • Review customer order forms to ensure alignment with legal playbooks and contract standards
  • Track and enter key contract data into internal tools (e.g., Streamline, Salesforce, Google Drive)
  • Coordinate updates to contract templates, clause libraries, and playbooks
  • Assist with the execution and maintenance of corporate records
  • Support implementation and optimization of legal tech tools (e.g., repository, GenAI assistant)
  • Work with stakeholders across Sales, Deal Desk, Finance, and Product to support smooth internal legal operations
  • Support a broad range of corporate matters and transactions with guidance from counsel and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, including with respect to strategic transactions, subsidiary entity management, equity, and other projects
  • Assist with the management of outside counsel-facing programs that will include elements of scope and fee negotiation, standard and alternative fee structures, and firm onboarding or off-boarding
  • Help ensure compliance with applicable company and departmental policies and procedures
  • Assist with other projects as needed
About you
  • 1–3 years of experience in a legal, contracts, or business operations role (in-house experience preferred)
  • Familiarity with enterprise SaaS contracting and the sales cycle
  • Highly organized with excellent attention to detail and a proactive mindset
  • Ability to learn quickly, manage multiple priorities, and thrive in a fast-paced environment
  • Strong communication skills and a collaborative, can-do attitude
  • Experience with tools like DocuSign, Google Drive, Salesforce, CLM platforms, and legal intake tools a plus

Bonus Points For:

  • Prior experience supporting Legal, Sales Ops, or Procurement teams
  • Interest in growing into a legal, product, or legal ops career path
Work Location
  • Remote from within the US
What you will have at Harness
  • Competitive salary
  • Comprehensive healthcare benefits
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Flexible work schedule
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave
  • Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events
  • Monthly internet reimbursement

The anticipated base salary range for this position is between $75,000 and $85,000 annually. Salary is determined by a combination of factors including location, level, relevant experience, and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations.  The compensation package for this position may also include equity, and benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.harness.io/company/careers. 

 

Pay transparency
$75,000$85,000 USD
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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

Note on Fraudulent Recruiting/Offers

We have become aware that there may be fraudulent recruiting attempts being made by people posing as representatives of Harness. These scams may involve fake job postings, unsolicited emails, or messages claiming to be from our recruiters or hiring managers. 

Please note, we do not ask for sensitive or financial information via chat, text, or social media, and any email communications will come from the domain @harness.io. Additionally, Harness will never ask for any payment, fee to be paid, or purchases to be made by a job applicant. All applicants are encouraged to apply directly to our open jobs via our website. Interviews are generally conducted via Zoom video conference unless the candidate requests other accommodations.

If you believe that you have been the target of an interview/offer scam by someone posing as a representative of Harness, please do not provide any personal or financial information and contact us immediately at security@harness.io. You can also find additional information about this type of scam and report any fraudulent employment offers via the Federal Trade Commission’s website (https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams), or you can contact your local law enforcement agency.

Salary
  • $75,000 - $85,000/year


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