Senior Product Operations Manager, Localization (San Francisco) Job at The Rundown AI, Inc., San Francisco, CA

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  • The Rundown AI, Inc.
  • San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Why Harvey

At Harvey, were transforming how legal and professional services operate not incrementally, but end-to-end. By combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise, were 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. With 700+ customers in 58+ countries, strong product-market fit, and world-class investor support, were 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 is sharp, motivated, and deeply committed to the mission. We move fast, operate with intensity, and take real ownership of the problems we tackle from early thinking to long-term outcomes. We stay close to our customers from leadership to engineers and work together to solve real problems with urgency and care. If you thrive in ambiguity, push for excellence, and want to help shape the future of work alongside others who raise the bar, we invite you to build with us.

At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today and were just getting started.

Role Overview

Harvey is expanding its AIpowered legal platform globally, and delivering a truly localized product experience is critical to our mission. We are hiring a Product Operations Manager, Localization to help drive Harveys localization efforts as a centralized platform function spanning all product lines. In this senior role within Product Operations, youll partner closely with the Product Management Lead for Localization, who owns strategic direction, while you focus on operationalizing, executing, and scaling localization across the EPD organization.

You will coordinate productwide localization efforts, working directly with teams across Product, Engineering, Design, and Legal to adapt Harveys features and content for different jurisdictions. This includes ensuring our workflows, terminology, UI/UX, and legal templates are tailored to local norms, conventions, and regulatory requirements. Initial work will focus on our most important international markets (with an emphasis on Europe and other key regions), ensuring Harvey delivers a natural, highquality, and locally relevant product experience.

A major part of your role will involve managing our translation vendor and the technical integrations required to support rapid, highquality localization. You will build scalable tooling, workflows, and processes that embed localization and internationalization (i18n) into the product development lifecycle. This position sits within Product Operations in our San Francisco office.

What Youll Do

  • Lead a crossfunctional localization program: Establish and own the endtoend localization platform process and ensure internationalization and localization considerations are built into every product roadmap. Translate Harveys localization strategy into clear execution plans, technical requirements, and delivery workflows across EPD. Ensure teams consider localization and i18n requirements early in product planning, design reviews, engineering specs, and QA cycles.

  • Manage translation vendors and localization tooling: Serve as the operational owner of our translation vendor relationship, including string handoffs, quality feedback, SLAs, and delivery schedules. Maintain and optimize integrations between the translation platform and Harveys codebase to ensure efficient, scalable translation pipelines.

  • Coordinate product and engineering localization efforts: Partner with Engineering to drive i18n implementation, string management best practices, and automated localization workflows. Collaborate with Product, Design, and Legal to adapt terminology, templates, UI/UX, and product behaviors to jurisdictionspecific needs (e.g., EU norms, GDPR considerations).

  • Oversee localization QA and continuous improvement: Establish localization QA workflows (automated and manual), gather feedback from internal/global stakeholders, and triage issues with engineering. Maintain glossaries, style guides, and terminology resources to ensure highquality, consistent localized experiences.

  • Maintain consistency, compliance, and readiness across locales: Ensure localized assets meet local regulatory, linguistic, and cultural expectations through partnership with Legal and regional SMEs. Build dashboards, metrics, and internal documentation that give leadership visibility into localization readiness and quality.

  • Build and scale internal localization capabilities: Develop internal tools, workflows, and automations that improve localization speed, quality, and crossteam collaboration. Champion i18n/l10n best practices across EPD and contribute directly to Product Operations mission of improving Harveys product lifecycle.

What You Have

  • Localization & Technical Expertise : 47+ years of experience in localization operations, technical program management, product operations, or related roles in software. Strong understanding of i18n concepts, localization engineering, file formats, TMS/CAT tools, and translation workflows.

  • Technical and Tooling Skills : Ability to work closely with engineers on technical requirements, automation, pipelines, and integration issues. Experience implementing or managing localization tooling and internal product operations systems is a plus.

  • Project Management & CrossFunctional Collaboration : Excellent organizational and project management skills; able to coordinate multiple teams and keep complex flows on track. Clear communicator who can partner effectively across Product, Engineering, Design, Legal, and external vendors.

  • Vendor Management Experience : Proven ability to manage external localization vendors, including evaluating quality, negotiating contracts, building partnerships, and providing constructive feedback to ensure quality and timely delivery.

  • Quality Focus & Domain Sensitivity : Strong attention to detail, with appreciation for cultural, linguistic, and regulatory nuanceespecially in highaccuracy domains. Experience in legal, compliance, or other regulated industries is valuable.

  • Adaptability and Growth Mindset : Experience in highgrowth/startup environments, comfortable with ambiguity, resourceful, biased toward action, and a commitment to continuous learning and scaling a function from the ground up.

Compensation

$178,500 - $210,000 USD

Please find our CA applicant privacy notice here.

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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Job Tags

Full time, Work at office, Local area,

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