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Mercury | $244,000 - $287,100


Original Job Description: Head of KYC

Mercury is building a complete finance stack for startups. We work hard to create the easiest and safest banking* experience possible to simplify entrepreneurs' and business owners’ financial lives. In order to do so, identifying our customers, collecting and verifying their information and ensuring we understand the various risks they bring is critical.

To us, KYC is much more than a legal requirement. It is the foundation that our risk program is built on. Ultimately, we aim to make all of our KYC, KYB, and risk assessment processes frictionless, efficient and robust. We’d like to go way beyond the industry standard, and innovate in all areas of risk management.

We are looking for a proactive senior leader and a first-principles thinker who will bring a strategic mindset to the way we approach KYC, CIP and due diligence, both and bridge our onboarding processes with our ongoing efforts to manage customers’ risk profile. The Head of KYC will help shape our risk management vision more broadly as a member of the Mercury Risk leadership team, and will play a key role in all aspects of risk management while partnering closely with Product and Compliance orgs.

*Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group and Evolve Bank & Trust®; Members FDIC.

In this role, you will:

You should:

The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options), 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:

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