Engagement Manager, Legal

Mercor

Job details

  • ONSITE
  • FULL_TIME
  • San Francisco
  • United States
  • Verified 2026-11-10
  • Salary: USD 180,000–200,000/yr
  • Source: Mercor public ASHBY source

Original job description

About Mercor

Mercor’s mission is to organize human intelligence for the AI economy. We build the infrastructure that enables frontier AI labs and enterprises to train, evaluate, and improve AI on real-world professional work. More than five million experts have joined our network, and we pay out over $5 million daily for their knowledge and expertise.

We built our training and evaluation infrastructure alongside the world’s leading AI labs. Now, we’re bringing those capabilities to enterprises across industries, enabling them to train, evaluate, and improve AI using their own expertise and standards. Our APEX benchmarks measure how AI performs on economically valuable work, while our enterprise evaluations and post-training capabilities turn those insights into measurable improvements across real-world workflows.

Our work sits at the intersection of frontier AI, human expertise, and real-world application. We’re solving problems few companies have encountered, with the opportunity to influence what the world’s most advanced AI systems become capable of doing. We’re looking for people who bring different perspectives, take ownership, exercise sound judgment, and hold themselves to an exceptionally high standard. You’ll have the opportunity to do consequential work alongside talented colleagues who challenge one another, collaborate openly, and share a commitment to excellence.

Mercor is profitable and recently raised a $750 million Series D at a $20 billion valuation. We work in person five days a week in San Francisco, New York, and London.

About the Role

As an Legal Engagement Manager, you will help legal tech companies, application-layer AI companies, and law firms post-train and evaluate models for legal work. You'll serve as their primary point of contact from first conversation through delivery.

Your legal training is central to the role. You'll help customers define what high-quality legal work looks like, turn it into evaluations and training data, and work with Mercor's network of lawyers to produce it. You'll also lead commercial processes for new and existing customers and help leadership find and unblock growth in the legal market.

What You'll Do

  • Manage and grow a portfolio of legal tech companies, application-layer companies, and law firms, from first meeting through delivery and expansion

  • Lead commercial processes for new and existing business, including scoping, pricing, and contracting

  • Work with customer, product, and research teams to design evaluations and post-training data for legal tasks such as contract review, legal research, drafting, and litigation support

  • Translate legal practice into rubrics and task specifications that models can be trained and measured against

  • Help recruit and calibrate lawyer experts on Mercor's platform, and work with operations to track quality and timelines

  • Serve as the primary point of contact for customer questions, issues, and escalations, and drive them to resolution

  • Forecast revenue and surface opportunities for account growth

Ideally You'd Have

  • JD required; bar admission and experience practicing at a law firm or in-house strongly preferred

  • 4+ years of total work experience, which may include legal practice, legal tech, or consulting for legal clients

  • A track record in client-facing roles and in building and expanding relationships

  • Strong interest in how AI is changing legal work; familiarity with LLMs, model evaluation, or legal tech products is a plus

  • Comfort working with ML and engineering stakeholders

  • Excellent written and verbal communication, with the precision expected of a practicing lawyer

Compensation and Benefits

  • Competitive salary w/ aggressive bi-annual performance bonus structure + meaningful equity (aligned with a venture-backed, rapidly scaling AI company)

  • $1.5K monthly stipend for meals

  • Free Equinox membership

  • $200 monthly laundry/housekeeping reimbursement

  • $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement

  • Health, Dental, Vision insurance

  • 401(k) with company match

  • Up to $15k Relocation bonus

  • $10K proximity bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)

Mercor is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing equal opportunity to all employees and applicants. Mercor does not discriminate based on actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions and lactation), gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, disability, protected medical condition as defined by California or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, California, or local laws and ordinances. Further, Mercor prohibits discrimination, harassment, and retaliation based on any combination of protected characteristics. This Policy applies to all areas of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, compensation, benefits, discipline, termination, and all other privileges, terms, and conditions of employment. This Policy and the law prohibit employment discrimination against any employee or applicant based on any legally protected status.

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