Senior Product & Regulatory Counsel - Investment Products
About the role
Who we are
Since 2019, Mercury has been on a mission to reinvent banking for the modern age. We blend elegant design and cutting-edge technology to offer checking and savings accounts, debit cards, payment services, credit products, cash management tools, and sophisticated analytics. Everything we build reflects our belief that finance should be thoughtfully crafted, fast, transparent, and frictionless.
About the team
Our Product & Regulatory Legal team operates like the rest of Mercury: with urgency, curiosity, and a bias toward action. We embed with product teams from early ideation through launch, working alongside engineers, designers, and compliance partners to get products right. We move fast, we take ownership, and we don't wait to be asked: If something needs figuring out, we’re up to the task.
What you'll do
- Own the investment products portfolio: Serve as the primary legal advisor for Mercury Treasury and Mercury Invest, the products through which Mercury's business and consumer customers access non-deposit investment products. You'll advise across the full product life cycle, including everything from supporting new feature development, drafting disclosures, calibrating on content for marketing and customer communications, and advising on operational matters with regulatory impacts.
- Work across the company: This role sits at the intersection of product, compliance, risk, engineering, and operations. You'll build relationships across all of these functions and bring legal perspective into conversations early; not as a checkpoint, but as a low ego, high ownership thought partner.
- Advise and support compliance: You'll work closely with Mercury's compliance team on regulatory matters affecting investment products, interpreting requirements, pressure-testing approaches, and supporting examination readiness with FINRA and the SEC.
- Flex and grow: While investment products are your home base, you'll also have opportunities to contribute across Legal on other product areas, gaining new experiences and broadening your expertise over time.
- Use AI intentionally: Bring a working knowledge of AI tools in legal workflows and a genuine interest in finding new ways to drive efficiency. We're building a legal team that works smarter, not just harder.
- Be a storyteller: Translate dense regulatory concepts into straightforward, energizing narratives for product teams and other stakeholders as well as external audiences.
- Stay curious and agile: Embrace each new regulation, market shift, or product pivot as a learning opportunity. Mercury's regulatory landscape is evolving quickly, and the scope of this role will grow with it. This is not a maintenance-only role.
What you should have
- 6+ years of legal experience, with at least 2 of those years focused on non-deposit investment products.
- Familiarity with the Investment Advisers Act, Securities Act, Investment Company Act, Regulation Best Interest, Form CRS/ADV, FINRA