About the RoleAs 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)
