# Lead Compliance Risk Manager, Product Compliance - AI

**Company**: Mercury
**Location**: San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $207,800-$259,800 USD / $187,000-$233,800 USD / $196,400-$245,500 CAD
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Fintech

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## Description

As Mercury continues its rapid growth trajectory, navigating an increasingly complex regulatory, partner, and product landscape is critical. Compliance is not only a requirement, but a competitive advantage that enables Mercury to move faster, build trust, and launch innovative products responsibly.

You will serve as the compliance advisor for Mercury's AI products, partnering closely with Product, Engineering, Risk, Data, Legal, and Operations to ensure Mercury's AI products are compliant-by-design from concept through launch and scale.

## Responsibilities:

- Serve as the subject matter expert and primary compliance advisor for Mercury's AI and agentic products.

- Work closely with cross-functional risk and product teams to bring Mercury's AI products to market in a way that meets all relevant financial partner, regulatory compliance obligations, and AI governance standards.

- Ensure all processes and products under your area of responsibility comply with applicable rules and regulations.

- Support expansion for new product launches by scoping, defining, and communicating product and compliance requirements.

- Work cross-functionally to drive remediation efforts for products within your defined scope.

- Support the compliance function in defining and achieving departmental initiatives, maintaining relevant policies and procedures, developing documentation solutions, and liaising with auditors.

- Mentor and provide strategic guidance to compliance colleagues as AI capabilities spread across every product domain.

## Core responsibilities:

- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Risk, Data, Operations, and Legal to bring Mercury's AI products to market in a manner that meets all relevant regulatory, financial partner, and network obligations.

- Advise product and engineering teams throughout the product lifecycle to ensure AI products are compliant-by-design.

- Identify, assess, and document compliance risks specific to AI and agentic systems.

- Define the compliance requirements for the platforms AI is built on.

- Establish and refine AI-specific compliance standards for the department.

- Support new product launches and expansions by scoping, defining, and communicating compliance requirements.

- Monitor regulatory, supervisory, and industry developments relevant to AI in financial services.

- Own and oversee multiple concurrent high-impact AI compliance workstreams.

- Support remediation efforts for products within scope.

- Partner with executive leadership, partner bank compliance teams, and external advisors to guide high-level decisions on AI direction.

## Requirements:

- 8+ years of experience in a compliance advisory, product compliance, or regulatory risk role.

- Demonstrated experience advising on AI, machine learning, or model-driven products in a regulated environment.

- Working knowledge of the regulatory and supervisory framework relevant to AI in banking.

- Familiarity with emerging AI-specific regimes and frameworks.

- Technical fluency to engage credibly with engineers on model behavior, evaluation and testing, agent permissioning and tool scoping, logging and observability, and data access controls.

- Deep experience partnering with product and engineering teams on regulatory and compliance matters.

- Proven ability to own highly ambiguous, large-scale compliance problems and to create and execute a strategy to address them.

- Experience designing compliance frameworks that span multiple product lines or departments.

- Demonstrated success operating with senior stakeholders.

- Strong project management skills.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

## Skills

### Required
- AI governance
- compliance
- regulatory risk
- machine learning
- model-driven products
- financial services
- project management
- communication

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