Senior Recruiter - Compliance (Fintech)

Location: San Francisco, New York, Portland, or remote within Canada or the United States.

Salary: US employees: $119,200–$149,000 or $132,400–$165,500 USD depending on location; Canadian employees: $125,100–$156,400 CAD.

Company

Mercury is a fintech company building a user-friendly banking stack for startups; banking services are provided through partner banks and Mercury is not an FDIC-insured bank.

What you will do

• Own full-cycle recruiting for technical and analytical roles across Risk Strategy, Compliance Data Modeling and Analytics, Information Security, and broader Compliance and Risk functions.
• Partner with hiring managers to define success profiles, separate essential expertise from learnable skills, and design structured interview processes.
• Build targeted sourcing strategies and pipelines for niche talent spanning data science, analytics, security, engineering, and financial services.
• Advise senior hiring leaders using talent mapping, market insights, recruiting data, and expectation calibration.
• Lead searches for new and evolving roles, improve candidate experience, and guide inclusive, evidence-based hiring decisions.
• Identify recruiting bottlenecks and improve workflows and outcomes through data, automation, AI, and process improvements.

Requirements

• 4+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience and 5+ years of overall experience in talent, people, or an HR-equivalent function.
• Experience hiring for technical or quantitative roles 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 regulatory requirements.
• Ability to learn technical concepts and translate complex requirements into sourcing and assessment strategies.
• Willingness and ability to support engineering searches, including information security engineering roles.
• Experience partnering with senior leaders and executives and influencing hiring decisions.
• Strong sourcing, networking, communication, problem-solving, prioritization, and ownership skills.
• Ability to build pipelines for specialized, emerging, or confidential hiring needs and support diverse, inclusive, high-performing teams.
• Experience with recruiting tools such as LinkedIn Recruiter, Greenhouse, Gem, Ashby, Metaview, or similar.

Nice to have

• Prior experience recruiting engineers.

Culture & Benefits

• Employment package includes base salary, equity through stock options or RSUs, and benefits.
• Compensation is adjusted based on experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity.
• Mercury is committed to diversity, belonging, equal employment opportunity, and reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process.