Senior Compliance Risk Manager – Product Compliance
Mercury
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: California • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $171,000 - $213,700 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Work closely with cross-functional risk and product teams to bring Mercury products to market in a way that meets all relevant financial partner and regulatory compliance obligations.
- Ensure all processes and products under your area of responsibility comply with applicable rules and regulations. Stay up to date with any changes to applicable regulations, and implement necessary updates to impacted products to maintain compliance.
- Support expansion for new product launches by scoping, defining and communicating product and compliance requirements.
- Work cross-functionally to drive remediation efforts for products within your defined scope.
- Support the compliance function in defining and achieving departmental initiatives, maintaining relevant policies and procedures, developing documentation solutions, and liaising with auditors.
- Contribute to building a strong culture of compliance across Mercury.
Requirements
- 5–7+ years of experience in a compliance advisory or product compliance role, ideally within fintech or financial services.
- Deep subject matter expertise in at least one product domain: Payments/ACH, Lending, or Credit Cards.
- Demonstrated experience partnering with product teams on regulatory and compliance matters across the product lifecycle.
- Strong working knowledge of applicable consumer protection, financial crime, licensing, reporting, and conduct risk requirements relevant to your domain.
- Proven ability to evaluate new or emerging products, identify compliance risk, and develop practical, business-enabling solutions.
- Strong project management skills, including the ability to define problems, create execution plans, and drive outcomes.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at multiple levels.
- Comfort operating independently in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment, with sound judgment on when to escalate issues.
- Curiosity, adaptability, and a willingness to engage with new product types and regulatory challenges.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) plan
- Paid time off
- Stock options
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
compliance advisoryproduct complianceregulatory complianceconsumer protectionfinancial crimelicensingreportingconduct riskproject managementproduct lifecycle
Soft Skills
communicationinfluencing stakeholdersproblem-solvingadaptabilitycuriosityindependent operationjudgmentcollaborationdriving outcomesremediation efforts