[Hiring] Legal Operations Specialist @Mercor

Role Description

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.

Position: Legal Technology Expert

Type: Contract

Compensation: $55–$75/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use daily, including:
  • Process maps
  • Intake forms
  • Matter-management reports
  • CLM rollouts
  • E-discovery plans
  • Vendor-evaluation decks
  • Email threads
• Design multi-step tasks based on real workflows, requiring navigation of multiple apps, files, and stakeholders to challenge frontier AI agents.
• Collaborate with other legal-operations and legal-tech experts to design the environment, shape task scope, and review scenarios for realism and rigor.
• Work asynchronously with research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria for legal-tech agent benchmarks.
• Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking, directly informing how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems.

Qualifications

• Must-Have:
  • 3+ years of full-time experience in legal operations or legal technology at an AmLaw 100 firm, Fortune 500 in-house legal department, or major legal-tech vendor.
  • Background in legal operations, process improvement, and legal-spend management.
  • Experience in e-discovery and review workflows.
  • Knowledge of contract lifecycle management and matter management.
  • Day-to-day use of Relativity, Icertis, HotDocs / Contract Express, and Clio / MyCase.
• Preferred:
  • Involvement in CLOC / ACC Legal Ops.
  • Strong analytical thinking and writing skills.

Requirements

• Transition from an hourly rate to compensation based on throughput of quality work.

Application Process

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

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