Senior Strategic Partnerships Manager
Lead Bank
Head of Compliance Advisory, Banking
Mercury
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California, New York, Oregon
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💰 $227,300 - $315,600 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Lead the Banking Compliance Advisory team, aligning compliance advisory efforts with Mercury’s business goals and product roadmap
- Provide strategic direction and day-to-day oversight for a team responsible for a wide range of compliance advisory functions, including:
- New product advisory: Partner with product and legal to shape and support compliant design and launch of new features and offerings
- Ad hoc advisory: Act as a trusted compliance resource across the business for nuanced or novel questions
- Issue advisory and remediation support: Guide product and operations teams in managing compliance incidents and remediating root causes
- Policy development and refresh: Own and evolve compliance policies in collaboration with subject matter experts and regulatory stakeholders
- Training content SME: Inform training strategy by contributing compliance expertise to internal enablement efforts
- Product risk assessment support: Embed compliance perspectives in product risk assessments and launch readiness reviews
- Regulatory and partner change management: Interpret and operationalize regulatory and partner-driven requirements and changes
- Partner management and response: Serve as a compliance representative in partner meetings and responses, supporting relationship health and contractual alignment
- Marketing reviews: Review and advise on marketing campaigns and materials to ensure regulatory and reputational compliance
- Strengthen cross-functional collaboration with product, legal, engineering, and risk teams to deliver responsible innovation at scale
- Represent Compliance in external conversations with partners and regulators, offering thoughtful input that balances product opportunity with regulatory clarity
- Support the execution of Compliance department initiatives, including audit readiness, documentation improvements, and cross-cutting operational projects
- Reinforce and grow a culture of compliance across the organization by modeling Mercury’s values and championing sound decision-making
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in a compliance advisory role, ideally within financial institution, fintech, banking-as-a-service, or consumer finance industries
- A strong track record of leading and developing compliance teams, preferably in high-growth environments
- Deep subject matter expertise in applicable regulations related to banking, consumer protection, financial crimes, and regulatory reporting
- Proven experience working cross-functionally with product, engineering, legal, and risk on complex compliance challenges
- Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to tailor messaging across audiences and drive alignment across stakeholders
- A pragmatic and solution-oriented mindset—able to navigate ambiguity and make risk-based decisions quickly and thoughtfully
- Experience supporting compliance policy frameworks, regulatory examinations, audits, and partner due diligence processes
- Passion for innovation in financial services, and a desire to help Mercury redefine how banking can enable businesses
