[Hiring] Senior Recruiter - Compliance @Mercury

Role Description

Mercury is revolutionizing finance for startups by building a complete, user-friendly banking stack. We’re looking to add a Senior Recruiter to our team to hire exceptional Infosecurity, Compliance, Risk, and Data Governance professionals who will help shape Mercury’s next stage of growth.

As a member of our growing recruiting team, you’ll partner directly with leaders across these functions to own full-cycle recruiting for work that is foundational to Mercury’s ability to operate and scale. You’ll serve as an embedded strategic partner with the teams you support:

• Define specialized profiles
• Navigate nuanced talent markets
• Build teams that protect Mercury, our customers, and the broader financial ecosystem

Here are some things you’ll do on the job:

• Own full-cycle recruiting for technical and analytical roles across teams like Risk Strategy, Compliance Data Modeling and Analytics, and Information Security, with flexibility to support engineering and broader Compliance and Risk searches.
• Develop a deep understanding of Mercury’s products, business model, and risk and regulatory environment to connect hiring priorities to the needs of the business.
• Partner with hiring managers to define success, distinguish essential technical and domain expertise from skills that can be learned, and design thoughtful interview processes.
• Build targeted sourcing strategies for niche talent pools, including candidates whose backgrounds span data science, analytics, security, engineering, and financial services.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to hiring leaders, using talent mapping, market insights, and recruiting data to inform hiring decisions and calibrate expectations.
• Build lasting relationships with candidates and communicate a compelling, tailored story about their potential impact at Mercury.
• Champion inclusive hiring practices and guide interview teams toward consistent, evidence-based decisions.
• Lead recruiting efforts for new and evolving roles, bringing structure to ambiguous searches and adapting your approach as you learn.
• Use recruiting data to identify bottlenecks, strengthen pipelines, and improve hiring outcomes and candidate experience.
• Flex across teams and role types as business priorities shift, bringing the same curiosity, urgency, and care to each search.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience and 5+ years of overall experience in a talent, people, or HR-equivalent function.
• Track record of hiring for technical or quantitative roles in areas such as compliance analytics, data science, information security, or related functions.
• Direct experience recruiting for compliance and risk teams within fintech or financial services, with an understanding of how domain knowledge and regulatory requirements shape these searches.
• Comfortable learning technical concepts, discussing candidate backgrounds with specialized hiring teams, and translating complex requirements into effective sourcing and assessment strategies.
• Willing and able to take on engineering searches when needed, including information security engineering roles. Prior experience recruiting engineers is a plus.
• Experience partnering with senior leaders and executives, influencing hiring decisions, and serving as a trusted advisor throughout a search.
• Strong sourcing and networking skills, including the ability to build pipelines for specialized, emerging, or confidential hiring needs.
• Enjoy creative problem solving, navigating ambiguity, and balancing competing priorities across different functions and role types.
• Lead with empathy, kindness, and care, and enjoy building diverse, inclusive, and high-performing teams.
• Communicate clearly and precisely, with a strong sense of urgency and ownership.
• Look for ways to improve your workflow through thoughtful use of data, automation, AI and process improvements.
• Experience using recruiting tools such as LinkedIn Recruiter, Greenhouse, Gem, Ashby, Metaview, or similar.

Benefits

• Total rewards package includes base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), and benefits.
• Highly competitive salary and equity ranges within the SaaS and fintech industry.
• New hire offers are based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.
• Target new hire base salary ranges for this role:
• US employees in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: $132,400 - $165,500 USD
• US employees outside of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: $119,200 - $149,000 USD
• Canadian employees (any location): $125,100 - $156,400 CAD

Company Description

Mercury values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Mercury are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.