[Hiring] Senior Litigation Paralegal @Mercury

Role Description

As a Litigation Paralegal at Mercury, you’ll join the litigation team at a pivotal moment, drawing on your experience and judgment to help the company innovate and scale.

• Support work across subpoenas, law enforcement requests, demand letters, discovery, and related workflows.
• Partner closely with the Deputy General Counsel, Litigation & IP and Senior Litigation Paralegal with a high degree of autonomy.
• Own high-volume processes, drive execution, and develop creative solutions.
• Manage competing priorities and keep workflows moving even when the path isn’t clear.

What you’ll be doing

• Own core litigation-related workflows, including managing responses to subpoenas and law enforcement requests.
• Support discovery efforts and coordinate litigation holds and document production.
• Lead high-volume intake and response processes, ensuring requests are tracked and deadlines met.
• Manage demand letter workflows end-to-end, including intake and drafting responses for attorney review.
• Partner closely with attorneys to draft materials and escalate complex issues when needed.
• Collaborate with Legal Operations to build and improve systems, including templates and playbooks.
• Oversee and improve automation and AI-assisted tooling, ensuring outputs are accurate.
• Work cross-functionally with teams and externally with vendors or outside counsel as needed.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience with a law firm or in-house legal team (or a combination of both).
• Meaningful experience supporting subpoenas, law enforcement requests, and high-volume legal workflows.
• Strong judgment and comfort taking ownership of work from start to finish.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• A proactive, low-ego approach and a willingness to jump in where needed.

What we’d love to see

• A systems-oriented mindset, always looking for efficiency and consistency.
• Creativity and a willingness to push beyond conventional methods.
• Strong AI instincts and experience in evaluating and deploying tools responsibly.

Benefits

• Base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), and benefits.
• Highly competitive salary and equity ranges updated regularly based on reliable compensation survey data.
• Target new hire base salary ranges for this role:
• US employees in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: $128,600 — $144,600 USD
• US employees outside of these areas: $115,700 — $130,100 USD