Senior Recruiter - Executive and Leadership

Mercury; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercury is hiring a Senior Recruiter to lead full-cycle Director and VP searches, focusing on Engineering, Product, Design, and Data leadership. You’ll partner with founders and execs, translating business needs into market maps and target lists.

You will advise senior hiring managers, build relationships with top leaders before roles exist, and run hiring sprints across Mercury while delivering a standout candidate experience from first contact to offer.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting across functions at a growing company.
• Experience running Director+ searches and prioritizing them in workload.
• Track record as a trusted advisor to senior hiring managers (e.g., CTOs, VPs).
• Relationships with senior leaders built before needing them.
• Clear, precise writing and communication skills.
• Experience with LinkedIn Recruiter, Greenhouse, Gem, Metaview, or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Run full-cycle Director and VP searches with focus on Engineering, Product, Design, and Data leadership.
• Break roles down with hiring managers and translate into market maps and target lists.
• Discuss scope, team needs, and tradeoffs with senior candidates, representing Mercury’s leadership.
• Use market data to advise hiring managers and push back on unrealistic specs.
• Host executive talent events and build a leadership network for future roles.
• Lead hiring sprints and high-priority searches across Mercury.
• Provide senior candidates with a memorable experience from first contact to offer.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Director searches

Executive recruitment

Relationship building

Written communication

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

Greenhouse

Gem

Metaview

Job description

At Bell Labs, Mervin Kelly built long shared hallways so chemists, physicists, and engineers would pass each other on the way to lunch. Some of the lab's best work started that way. Hiring leaders works the same: the person you need next year is often someone you met long before the role opened.

Mercury builds banking* and financial software for startups and growing businesses. The leaders we hire decide how that software gets built, sold, and kept safe. We're hiring a Senior Recruiter to help find them.

You’ll join our small executive recruiting team, partnering with our founders and execs on Director to C‑suite hiring. Most of your searches will be Director and VP roles, with a tilt toward Engineering, Product, Design, and Data. You’ll also get to know strong leaders before we have a role for them, and jump into hiring sprints when the business needs it.

*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:

• Run full‑cycle Director and VP searches, with a focus on Engineering, Product, Design, and Data leadership
• Break each role down with the hiring manager (what the team needs to build or fix, and who has done it before), then turn that into a market map and target list
• Talk scope, team, and tradeoffs with senior candidates, and represent Mercury’s leadership when they can’t be in the room
• Use market data to advise hiring managers, push back when a spec won’t find anyone, and catch a stalled search early
• Host executive talent events and build a network of leaders for roles we expect to open in the next 12 to 24 months
• Step into hiring sprints and other high‑priority searches across Mercury
• Give senior candidates an experience they remember, from first note to offer

You should have:

• 5+ years of full‑cycle, in-place recruiting across a range of functions at a growing company
• Experience running Director+ searches, and an interest in making them most of your work
• A track record as a trusted advisor to senior hiring managers, ideally CTOs, VPs of Engineering, or product leaders
• Relationships with senior people that you built well before you needed them
• Clear, precise writing and communication skills
• Experience with LinkedIn Recruiter, Greenhouse, Gem, Metaview, or similar tools

Experience that’s a strong plus:

• Technical leadership hiring in Engineering, Product, Data, or Security
• Recruiting at a fintech or other regulated tech company
• Running events, dinners, or communities for senior talent
• Time at a retained search firm before moving in‑house

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 charac