Senior Counsel - Product & Regulatory (Investment Products)

<p><strong><em>"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." – Arthur Ashe</em></strong></p> <p>There's a version of investment products legal work that's mostly about maintaining what already exists. Reviewing disclosures that haven't changed in years, advising on products whose architecture was set long before you arrived. This isn't that. Mercury Treasury and Mercury Invest* are in some ways still taking shape and must continually rise to the occasion to meet evolving customer needs. The regulatory frameworks are complex, the product roadmap is ambitious, and the person in this role will have a direct hand in the high quality customer experience we deliver to Mercury users.</p> <p><strong>Who we are:</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>About the team:</strong></p> <p>Our Product &amp; 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.</p> <p><strong>What you'll do:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Own the investment products portfolio:</strong> 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.</li> <li><strong>Work across the company:</strong> 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.</li> <li><strong>Advise and support compliance:</strong> 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 FIN