Lead Compliance Risk Manager, Product Compliance - AI
Mercury · Legal · Lead · 1mo ago
$208k – $260k
per year
Open to candidates living in Canada, United States.
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Open to candidates living in Canada, United States.
“San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States”
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- Contractor / B2B
- No mention of hiring international contractors or invoicing.
- Global stipend
- No home office or equipment budget mentioned.
- Annual retreat
- No company-paid get-togethers mentioned.
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About the role
As the first dedicated compliance advisory seat covering AI at Mercury, you will serve as the leading authority on AI product compliance risk. You will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Risk, Data, Legal, and Operations to ensure first-party agentic products, APIs, and internal AI platforms meet partner bank and regulatory standards from discovery through launch.
What you'll do
- Serve as the primary compliance advisor and subject matter expert for Mercury's AI and agentic products, including Command and API access.
- Partner across product and engineering lifecycles to embed compliant-by-design controls into AI architectures and LLM gateways.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate risks unique to agentic AI, including unexplainable decisioning, disparate impact, data leakage, and prompt injection.
- Establish AI-specific compliance standards, launch evidence requirements, audit trails, and escalation pathways.
- Monitor regulatory and supervisory developments in financial services AI to adapt policies and guide partner bank engagements.
What you bring
- 8+ years of experience in product compliance, compliance advisory, or regulatory risk within fintech or financial services.
- Demonstrated experience advising on AI, machine learning, or model-driven financial products.
- Deep understanding of banking regulations, supervisory guidance, and emerging AI risk frameworks.
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally with product, engineering, and data teams on technical implementations.
About Mercury
Mercury offers banking and financial software built for startups and growing businesses. The company is actively building AI-native, agentic capabilities to modernize financial workflows.
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