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Senior Legal Program Manager

Key Facts

Full time
Senior (5-10 years)
150 - 187K yearly
English

Other Skills

  • Program Management
  • Decision Making
  • Communication
  • Leadership
  • Teamwork
  • Proactivity
  • Creative Problem Solving

Roles & Responsibilities

  • 8+ years of experience in legal project management, legal operations, or as a paralegal
  • Mix of law firm and in-house experience, ideally at a technology company; fintech, financial services, or another highly regulated industry is a plus
  • Experience supporting complex work in corporate and/or regulatory areas
  • Deep working knowledge of AI-powered legal tools and emerging legal tech

Requirements:

  • Provide hands-on program and project management support across a broad range of legal work (corporate, regulatory, product, IP, commercial, privacy, and employment), including corporate governance tasks.
  • Support corporate work such as entity management, board and stockholder matters, corporate records, and compliance, while helping drive larger transactions, strategic initiatives, and other key milestones.
  • Manage patent and trademark portfolios, run the patent incentive program, and support product and regulatory efforts such as licensing, product compliance, exams, audits, due diligence, and bank charter-related work.
  • Identify opportunities to leverage AI and automation in legal processes by evaluating existing workflows and designing smarter processes to reduce repetitive work and increase the team's impact.

Job description

About the role

As a Senior Legal Program Manager, you’ll sit at the intersection of legal execution, operational excellence, and process design. You’ll partner closely with attorneys across a range of subject areas, lead key programs, drive complex cross-functional initiatives, and identify practical ways to use AI and automation to reduce manual work and increase the Legal team’s overall impact. This role is well suited for someone who's energized by both day-to-day execution and longer-term process improvement.

What you’ll be doing

You'll provide hands-on program and project management support across a broad range of legal work, including corporate, regulatory, product, IP, commercial, privacy, and employment matters. On the corporate side, you'll support core work like entity management, board and stockholder matters, corporate records, and compliance, while also helping drive larger transactions, strategic initiatives, and other key company milestones. You'll manage our patent and trademark portfolios, run the patent incentive program, and support product and regulatory efforts such as licensing, product compliance, exams, audits, due diligence, and the work required to support Mercury's application for a bank* charter.

A major part of this role is helping each legal subteam identify where AI can most meaningfully improve how work gets done. You'll evaluate existing manual processes, spot opportunities to introduce AI-driven solutions, and design smarter workflows that reduce repetitive work, increase the team's impact, and help us stay ahead of the curve.

*Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.

Who you are

  • 8+ years of experience in legal project management, legal operations, or as a paralegal
  • A mix of law firm and in-house experience, ideally at a technology company; fintech, financial services, or another highly regulated industry is a plus
  • Experience supporting complex work in corporate and/or regulatory areas
  • A track record of designing and improving scalable legal processes
  • Strong communication and cross-functional influence skills
  • Deep working knowledge of AI-powered legal tools and emerging legal tech
  • Comfortable in fast-moving, ambiguous environments and able to make decisions when the path isn't perfectly clear
  • A creative problem-solver who loves building better ways of working and isn't afraid to challenge outdated processes

The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options), and benefits.

Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.

Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following:

  • US employees in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: $158,200 - $197,800
  • US employees outside of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: $142,400 - $178,000
  • Canadian employees (any location): CAD 149,500 - 186,900

Mercury values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Mercury are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.

We use Covey as part of our hiring and / or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT. As part of the evaluation process we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound on January 22, 2024.

[Please see the independent bias audit report covering our use of Covey for more information.] 

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