Senior Recruiter, Mercury
Compliance
$119.2-165.5k
Actual salary range is dependent on location. Canadian employees (any location): $125,100 - $156,400 CADOffers equity (stock options/RSUs)
Banking services for startups and small businesses
Be an early applicant
Banking services for startups and small businesses
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$119.2-165.5k
Actual salary range is dependent on location. Canadian employees (any location): $125,100 - $156,400 CADOffers equity (stock options/RSUs)
1001+ 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
- Have 4+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience and 5+ years of overall experience in a talent, people, or HR-equivalent function
- Have a track record of hiring for technical or quantitative roles in areas such as compliance analytics, data science, information security, or related functions
- Have 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
- Be comfortable learning technical concepts, discussing candidate backgrounds with specialized hiring teams, and translating complex requirements into effective sourcing and assessment strategies
- Be willing and able to take on engineering searches when needed, including information security engineering roles. Prior experience recruiting engineers is a plus
- Have experience partnering with senior leaders and executives, influencing hiring decisions, and serving as a trusted advisor throughout a search
- Bring 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
- Have experience using recruiting tools such as LinkedIn Recruiter, Greenhouse, Gem, Ashby, Metaview, or similar
What the job involves
- Mercury is revolutionizing finance for startups by building a complete, user-friendly banking* stack
- It turns out, this requires a lot of talented people, so 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, and build teams that protect Mercury, our customers, and the broader financial ecosystem
- These searches rarely come with a straightforward playbook
- You’ll use creative sourcing, thoughtfully craft interview processes for first of their kind roles, and leverage market insights to find candidates whose experience spans disciplines—and help them understand the impact they can have at Mercury
- 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
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 200,000 businesses and, off the back of a $300 million Series C round, achieved a $5.2B valuation as of 2026. 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
50% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2026
$200m
SERIES D
Mar 2025
$300m
SERIES C
Total funding: $650.9m
Company benefits
- Health, dental, & vision
- 12+ weeks of paid parental leave
- $600 USD custom WFH equipment setup
- Unlimited vacation policy (with a mandatory minimum)
- Annual $1K learning & development budget
- Paid 6-week sabbatical after the 5-year mark
- Weekly $100 food budget
- Monthly $100 wellness budget
- Monthly $50 cellphone reimbursement
- Pet-friendly offices with free tea and beverages, plus lunch and snacks
- Unlimited vacation policy (with a mandatory minimum)
- Retirement matching up to 4% of base salary (401K/RRSP)
- Inclusive fertility, hormonal health, and family-forming benefits through Carrot Fertility
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jason Zhang
(Co-Founder & COO)Jason graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology before spending over 4 years at Heyzap in Business Development.
Immad Akhund
(Co-Founder & CEO)Immad graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Masters in Computer Science. He then worked as a Software Developer at Aquila and Bloomberg. He also founded Clickpass and Heyzap, and was a Part-time Partner at Y Combinator.
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