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Senior Manager - Compliance Governance

Mercury· Compliance
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (New York, NY), Hybrid (Portland, OR), Remote$199.9k - $249.9kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Lead Mercury's Compliance Governance programs within the Compliance Management System (CMS), including risk assessment, policy governance, training, and reporting. Drive regulatory examination readiness and partner across Compliance, Risk, Legal, Internal Audit, and banking partners. Role emphasizes scaling governance through technology and collaboration in a fintech with provisional national bank charter.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop the Compliance Governance team: set priorities, hold a high bar, and develop your team’s capabilities.
  • Own the compliance risk assessment, including methodology, execution, and alignment with Mercury's enterprise risk framework.
  • Own enterprise policy governance: the policy lifecycle, standards, and ownership across Mercury.
  • Own enterprise compliance training: a risk-based curriculum that measures whether training works, not just whether people completed it.
  • Oversee compliance issues within Mercury's enterprise issues management program, partnering with Enterprise Risk Management on identification, remediation, and validation.
  • Design and deliver compliance reporting to executive leadership and governance committees, with metrics that show whether programs are working.
  • Support exam and audit readiness for the CMS.
  • Provide credible challenge across the business and escalate when it's warranted.
  • Use technology and automation to make governance programs scalable, measurable, and less manual.
  • Partner across Compliance (Advisory, Oversight & Monitoring, Financial Crimes) and with Risk, Legal, and Internal Audit

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in compliance or risk management at a fintech, bank, or other regulated financial institution, including 3+ years leading teams
  • Hands-on experience owning core CMS components, such as compliance risk assessment, policy governance, training, compliance reporting, or issues management
  • Experience leading or playing a central role in regulatory examinations, including managing requests, engaging with examiners, and responding to findings
  • Broad knowledge of banking regulations, including consumer protection and BSA/AML, sufficient to provide credible challenge with subject matter experts
  • Demonstrated ability to present compliance programs to, and persuade, executive leadership, Board committees, banking partners, and regulators
  • Pragmatic judgment, with the ability to tell which framework requirements are non-negotiable and which can be tailored to the business
  • Strong understanding of 1LOD/2LOD roles and how Compliance should govern, challenge, and partner with the business
  • Proficient with AI tools, or eager to get there, to drive efficiency in compliance work
  • Willingness to roll up your sleeves, with a high quality bar and a strong sense of ownership
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Skills

Required:Compliance risk assessmentPolicy governanceCompliance trainingRegulatory examinationsCommunication with executives and boards

Benefits

  • Total Rewards include base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), and benefits.
  • New hire salary ranges are competitive within SaaS and fintech, updated using industry data.
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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