Associate General Counsel, Product and Privacy

Mercury; United States; Remote; USD 231,000 - 322,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Associate General Counsel specializing in Product and Privacy. This role is pivotal in refining and scaling the privacy program while also expanding product counseling for innovative financial workflow products. You will work closely with various teams, transforming legal regulations into opportunities and crafting engaging narratives for stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of legal experience, particularly in privacy, and a passion for supporting entrepreneurs. Join a forward-thinking company that values diversity and fosters a collaborative environment where your contributions will make a real impact.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of legal experience with expertise in privacy and product counseling.
• Exceptional communication skills to engage with diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale the privacy program ensuring compliance and user-centric design.
• Collaborate across teams to craft user-focused solutions.

Skills

Legal Experience

Privacy Expertise

Product Counseling

Communication Skills

Team Collaboration

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Job description

Associate General Counsel - Product and Privacy Counsel

San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States

At Mercury, we think banking should do more than simply hold your money, and we’ve been innovating to develop a modern, beautiful experience that allows businesses and individuals to easily understand and control their finances. Because we deal with sensitive financial information and because we are continuously innovating, it’s important that we design our products with privacy as an essential consideration.

To that end, we are hiring an Associate General Counsel for Product and Privacy who will be responsible for scaling and refining our privacy program to keep pace with our growing customer base and expanding product offerings. While this role will have a primary focus on privacy, it will also be responsible for expanding our product counseling function with regard to our recently launched financial workflow products.

About the team

Our Legal team aims to be the most loved in-house legal team, by generating value for the business and skillfully helping Mercury navigate complex legal areas. We operate in accordance with Mercury’s values, which include being super helpful, thinking actively, focusing on outcomes, and acting with humility. Our lawyers are embedded in the product life cycle from initial ideation to final rollout and the iterations that follow, and will partner closely with product managers, designers, engineers, compliance experts, government relations colleagues, and bank-partner counterparts.

What you’ll do

• Help build our privacy program for scale: You will be responsible for taking our privacy program to the next level, ensuring it is 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.

What you should have

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

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

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.