Remote Head of Risk Product

Summary

Join Mercury as they hire a Head of Risk Product to shape the fundamental character of their product through scale, understanding customer needs deeply, developing product strategy, and leading teams to execute on priorities.

Requirements

• 10+ years experience as a PM, with at least 3+ years in Risk
• Experience building, scaling, and leading product teams across a wide surface area of financial products
• Experience leading multiple product teams (>40+ engineers)
• Experience working at a fintech company scaling quickly
• Expert understanding of risk, compliance, and fraud trends, and generally sound industry knowledge
• Great communication skills—you’ll need to explain Mercury’s products and programs not only to a wide array of internal partners, but to external partners and executives
• Aptitude working in complex, technical product areas
• Strong systems thinking
• Excellent cultural leadership & communication skills
• Strong intuitions in building beautiful product experiences for customers—and you should love customers
• Strong understanding of data & driving business decision-making with data

Responsibilities

• Lead Risk Product across all of Mercury, including both platform capabilities, and vertical risks across banking, cards, & payments products
• Deliver lovable product experiences to our customers while holistically managing risk, compliance, and regulation
• Guide 4+ PMs and product teams on strategy, execution, craft, and much more
• Partner closely with your Design & Engineering counterparts, our Risk Business & Ops team, and our Compliance team to set strategy and vision for Risk at Mercury
• Build an organization that can react quickly and adapt to short-term goals, while investing in long-term platform work
• Work with our banking, cards, and payments partners to deliver compliant products
• Enable our other product teams to deliver great product experiences to customers with speed and at scale
• Develop systems to increase the efficiency and scalability of Mercury’s risk processes and systems through rapid growth
• Pick and manage the best product tools and vendors to help Mercury manage risk
• Find harmony and balance

Benefits

• Base salary
• Equity (stock options)