Senior Product Manager, Mercury
Personal Banking
$203.1-238.9k
+ Equity. Salary for Canada is CAD 184,800 - 217,400
Banking services for startups
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Banking services for startups
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$203.1-238.9k
+ Equity. Salary for Canada is CAD 184,800 - 217,400
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make scaling tech companies simpler with a personalized banking stack for startups, and power the next generation of companies that will shape the American industry.
Role
Who you are
- If you’re passionate about building elegant solutions to complex problems and creating products that make people’s financial lives better, we want to hear from you. Ready to shape the future of personal banking with Mercury? Let’s make it happen
- 7+ years of relevant product management experience in a financial technology company
- 5+ years of experience working on directly regulated products in the banking, insurance, wealth management, or treasury space at a growth-stage startup
- Be technically inclined or comfortable enough with technical concepts to produce detailed-oriented requirements that enable your team to ship high-quality features
- Be able to balance a deep technical understanding of product and partner requirements with user empathy
- Be able to take complex problems and distill them into first principles
- Be capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously while keeping a high bar for execution and customer experience
- Securities licensed: Series 7, Series 63 (not required but a plus)
What the job involves
- Now, we’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our Personal Banking team and co-lead the charge in shaping the future of consumer banking and investment offering
- This is your opportunity to define the strategy and roadmap for a seamless, innovative banking experience that bridges consumer investments and banking products
- This role demands a mix of vision, empathy, and an intuitive grasp of user needs—both today and tomorrow
- You’ll dive deep into building new small- and large-scale products for personal customers and the complexities of domestic and international banking networks, quickly uncovering issues, crafting solutions, and championing their importance across teams
- Your ability to wield data with precision will be key to prioritizing and justifying a product roadmap that delivers unparalleled user experiences and integrations
- Collaboration is at the heart of what you’ll do. You’ll work closely with internal teams and external partners to design solutions that feel effortless to users—even when the underlying systems are anything but simple
- The ultimate goal? To create a banking and investment experience that users describe as secure, reliable, thoughtful, and yes, even magical
- Co-own with design and engineering an ambitious product roadmap for consumer investment and banking products from ideation to execution
- Prioritize areas of product investment using a range of qualitative and quantitative inputs, often to make tradeoffs in a highly ambiguous environment
- Be a collaborative powerhouse across Mercury, ensuring stakeholders are brought in and aligned on the vision of Mercury treasury and feel joint ownership over strategy and results
- Create strategy and frameworks to inform our future personal banking and investment partnerships strategy
- Clearly communicate technical and non-technical product specifications for personal banking product improvements/features to enable efficiency across a wide breadth of stakeholders
- Identify opportunities to improve the consumer product experience, enabling both larger and smaller-scale projects
- Drive accountability — hold yourself and others accountable in service of great work
Our take
Frustrated by the archaic, fee-laden banking services offered to entrepreneurs, the founders of Mercury set out to create a better solution. They envisioned a platform that was dynamic, tech-driven, and free from unnecessary fees.
Mercury delivers on this vision by automating business payment processes, offering FDIC-insured accounts, and providing full API access, empowering entrepreneurs with greater control and efficiency. This approach stands in stark contrast to traditional startup banking, which often burdens young businesses with high fees and limited functionality.
By prioritizing user experience and offering a free service tier, Mercury has attracted over 100,000 businesses and achieved a $1B valuation in 2021. As a rising unicorn in the stagnant world of startup banking, mercury is poised for continued growth, constantly adding new features and expanding its team to further disrupt the industry.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
50% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2021
$120m
SERIES B
Sep 2019
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $150.9m
Company benefits
- Health, dental, & vision
- 12+ weeks of paid parental leave
- $600 USD custom WFH equipment setup
- Unlimited vacation policy (with a mandatory minimum)
- Retirement matching up to 4% of base salary (401k/RRSP)
- Paid 6-week sabbatical after the 5-year mark
- Annual $1K USD learning & development budget
- Unlimited book budget
- Weekly $100 USD food budget
- Monthly $100 USD wellness budget
- Monthly $50 USD cellphone reimbursement
- Pet-friendly offices with free tea & lunch
Company values
- Think actively: Question processes. Give thoughtful feedback. Find the best way to do something instead of going by how it’s always been done
- Be super helpful: Practice intentionality and accountability. Go above and beyond to solve problems, and do it as a team
- Act with humility: Treat everyone with respect. Leave egos at the door
- Appreciate quality: Work with the best equipment. Avoid cutting corners. Take pride in crafting a lasting product
- Maximize efficiency: Minimize unnecessary meetings and bureaucracy. Work together to get the job done right
- Focus on product: Ask yourself how the product can be better today than it was yesterday
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Jason Zhang
(COO)Studied Biology at Stanford before spending over 4 years at Heyzap in Business Development.
Immad Akhund
(CEO)Graduated from the University of Cambridge, then worked as a Software Developer at Aquila and Bloomberg. Also founded Clickpass and Heyzap, and was a Part-time Partner at Y Combinator.
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