Associate General Counsel - Product and Privacy Counsel

Summary

Join Mercury, a financial technology company, as an Associate General Counsel for Product and Privacy. This role is crucial in scaling and refining Mercury's privacy program to keep pace with its growing customer base and expanding product offerings. You will be responsible for taking the privacy program to the next level, ensuring it is thoughtful, innovative, and built for scale. You will also provide counsel on privacy and other regulatory areas, helping teams advance the business while maintaining compliance and user-centric design. This role requires collaboration with various teams, including information security, engineering, compliance, risk, product, and customer support, to craft user-focused solutions. You will also be responsible for translating dense legal concepts into straightforward narratives for product and business stakeholders as well as external audiences. This position requires 10+ years of legal experience with deep expertise in privacy and product counseling, a genuine passion for privacy and data protection, and exceptional communication skills.

Requirements

• 10+ years of legal experience (private practice, in-house, or with a government agency), with deep expertise in privacy and product counseling
• A genuine passion for privacy and data protection, along with a deep care for the founders and entrepreneurs that we serve
• Exceptional communication skills—you’re flexible enough to engage with designers, engineers, executives, and external partners alike
• A proactive sense of ownership. You are never afraid to say “I don’t know, but I’ll find out.”

Responsibilities

• Help build our privacy program for scale: As Mercury enters into its next phase of growth, you will be responsible for taking our privacy program to the next level, ensuring its thoughtful, innovative, and built for scale
• Transform regulations into opportunities: Provide thoughtful counsel on privacy and other regulatory areas, helping teams advance the business while maintaining compliance and user-centric design
• Collaborate across teams: Work closely with information security, engineering, compliance, risk, product, and customer support, to craft user-focused solutions
• Be a storyteller: Translate dense legal concepts into straightforward, energizing narratives for product and business stakeholders as well as external audiences
• Stay curious and agile: Embrace each new regulation, market shift, or product pivot as a learning opportunity, channeling your inventive, collaborative way of thinking to help Mercury stay ahead
• Foster collective success: Approach problems with a mindset that transparency, trust, and teamwork will lead to the best outcomes

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in fintech, banking, lending, or payments is nice to have but not required

Benefits

• 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
• US employees in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: $257,400 - 321,700
• US employees outside of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: $231,700 - 289,500