# Deputy General Counsel - Litigation

**Company**: Mercury
**Location**: San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $272,200 - $378,000
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/mercury/jobs/5775689004
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_37e6fe7b-cdf

## Description

We're hiring a Deputy General Counsel, Litigation to own Mercury's litigation and enforcement function end to end.

This role exists to help Mercury keep building. Litigation at Mercury is not about posturing or perfection. It's about making clear-eyed decisions under pressure, managing risk thoughtfully, and ensuring that disputes don't distract from or unnecessarily constrain the company's ability to move forward.

You'll be responsible for how Mercury approaches adversarial matters across the company, from early assessment through resolution, and for building the systems that allow us to handle those matters consistently as we scale.

Key responsibilities include:

* Owning Mercury's litigation and disputes portfolio, including civil litigation, arbitration, investigations, regulatory enforcement, and other adversarial matters.
* Setting litigation strategy, grounded in facts, risk tolerance, and business context.
* Building and scaling Mercury's litigation function, including playbooks, escalation frameworks, and outside counsel strategy, with an eye toward achieving differentiated outcomes.
* Overseeing subpoena and government request response, balancing speed, rigor, and practicality.
* Advising senior leadership and the Board during high-stakes situations, helping the company navigate tradeoffs and move forward decisively.
* Identifying patterns across matters, and partnering with teams to reduce future risk through better systems, product design, or processes.

Ideal candidate:

* 12+ years of legal experience, with significant litigation or enforcement experience.
* Exceptional communicator and advocate, able to explain complex issues clearly and persuasively.
* Strategic, practical thinker who can weigh risk without slowing the business unnecessarily.
* Comfortable owning decisions and giving direct advice when there's no obvious right answer.
* Creativity is required, and a willingness to push beyond 'the way things are normally done' to achieve outsized outcomes for Mercury.

We'd love to see:

* A mix of in-house experience at a technology company (particularly in regulated industries) along with a strong law firm litigation background, with hands-on exposure to contested matters.
* Fintech, financial services, and/or government experience are a plus.
* Experience with government investigations/enforcement (federal + state) with pragmatic response posture.
* Strong legal-tech instincts (including AI) - can evaluate tools, deploy them responsibly, and drive adoption to make the team meaningfully faster.

About the Legal team:

Our Legal team exists to help Mercury build faster and better , responsibly. We focus on thinking from first principles, creating valuable business outcomes, producing high-quality work, and doing it in a super-collaborative, growth-oriented team setting. We partner closely with teams across the company and believe that good legal judgment, applied thoughtfully, enables innovation rather than standing in its way.

Why this role matters:

As Mercury continues to grow, disputes and enforcement matters will increase in complexity and impact. This role ensures that Mercury can meet those moments without losing focus , protecting the company so it can keep building products that customers trust.

If you're excited by responsibility, judgment, and helping a fast-growing company navigate real-world complexity, we'd love to talk.

## Skills

### Required
- litigation
- enforcement
- dispute resolution
- government investigations
- regulatory compliance
- legal tech
- AI
- risk management
- strategic planning

### Nice to have
- fintech
- financial services
- government experience
- strong legal-tech instincts