Senior Recruiter - Compliance

Mercury; New York (NY); On-site; USD 132,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercury is seeking a Senior Recruiter to own full-cycle recruiting for Infosecurity, Compliance, Risk, and Data Governance professionals who will help Mercury scale. You will partner with leaders across these functions to define roles, craft interview processes, and build targeted pipelines that bring in top talent.

You’ll use sourcing tools and market insights to guide decisions, champion inclusive hiring, and advise hiring leaders with empathy and ownership as Mercury grows.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience.
• 5+ years of overall experience in a talent, people, or HR-equivalent function.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting for technical and analytical roles across Risk, Compliance, Data Governance, and Information Security.
• Develop understanding of Mercury’s products, business model, and regulatory environment to align hiring priorities with business needs.
• Partner with hiring managers to define success and design interview processes for niche roles.
• Build targeted sourcing strategies for data science, analytics, security, engineering, and financial services.
• Use talent mapping, market insights, and recruiting data to inform decisions and calibrate expectations.
• Build relationships with candidates and communicate Mercury’s value proposition.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Technical recruiting

Stakeholder management

Sourcing

Data-driven decisions

Diversity & inclusion

Communication

Fast-paced hiring

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

Greenhouse

Gem

Ashby

Metaview

Job description

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.

• Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.

Here are some things you’ll do on the job

• 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.

You should

• 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.

Mercury values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Mercury are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.

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Total Rewards

The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), and benefits.

Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.

Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following:

US employees in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area:

$132,400 - $165,500 USD

US employees outside of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area:

$119,200 - $149,000 USD

Canadian employees (any location)

$125,100 - $156,400 CAD