Mage Legal Automates M&A Due Diligence and Recruits Founding Team in San Francisco
San Francisco-based Mage Legal was founded in 2024 by former corporate lawyer Raffi Isanians and Raymond Xu. The Y Combinator S24 company builds software that automates legal diligence across deal data rooms, scanning documents, flagging risky clauses, and producing diligence memos for law firms and private equity buyers.
Prior to starting Mage Legal, Raffi Isanians worked as an M&A associate at law firms including Kirkland & Ellis and Gunderson Dettmer. He trained as an engineer before attending law school. In an interview on the Fondo channel titled Raffi Isanians, Founder & CEO, Mage Legal "Automatic AI M&A Legal Diligence", Isanians stated that Mage Legal's platform can review 1,500 documents asynchronously and draft diligence memos in minutes. In a video interview with Holly Cope titled Will AI Replace Lawyers?, Isanians said that AI will not replace human attorneys, but will turn law firms into technology-driven operations where lawyers work alongside developers.
Currently operating with a team of two, Mage Legal is recruiting its founding employees across engineering, design, and growth in San Francisco.
To build its core infrastructure and agent workflows, the company is hiring a Founding AI Engineer ($100,000–$150,000, San Francisco, CA, US) to design AI workflows and prompt engineer GPT prompts for AI agent flows. For user interface implementation, Mage Legal seeks a Founding Front End Engineer ($100,000–$150,000, San Francisco, CA, US) to harden front-end codebases into production-ready interfaces for attorneys and deal teams.
The team is also hiring a Founding Design Engineer ($100,000–$150,000, San Francisco, CA, US) to design features in Figma and build them in React using Radix UI and Tailwind CSS while solving UX challenges around displaying extracted provisions across hundreds of contracts.
To manage visual design and customer acquisition, Mage Legal is recruiting a Founding Designer ($80,000–$130,000, San Francisco, CA, US) to own visual design across marketing surfaces, onboarding flows, and product demos. Alongside design, the company seeks a Founding Marketer/Head of Growth ($80,000–$130,000, San Francisco, CA, US) to run growth experiments, testing messaging and offers that resonate with M&A deal attorneys and private equity professionals. All open positions are onsite in San Francisco.
Open Roles at Mage Legal
| Role | Location | Work Mode | Salary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Founding AI Engineer | San Francisco, CA, US | Onsite | $100,000 - $150,000 / year |
| Founding Designer | San Francisco, CA, US | Onsite | $80,000 - $130,000 / year |
| Founding Front End Engineer | San Francisco, CA, US | Onsite | $100,000 - $150,000 / year |
| Founding Design Engineer | San Francisco, CA, US | Onsite | $100,000 - $150,000 / year |
| Founding Marketer/Head of Growth | San Francisco, CA, US | Onsite | $80,000 - $130,000 / year |
