Mercury
Lead Compliance Risk Manager, Product Compliance - AI
San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States. Posted a month ago
The role
You will serve as the primary compliance advisor for Mercury's AI and agentic products. You will partner with product, engineering, and risk teams to ensure AI products are compliant-by-design from concept to launch.
What you will do
- Serve as the subject matter expert and primary compliance advisor for AI and agentic products
- Work with cross-functional risk and product teams to bring AI products to market
- Ensure products comply with applicable rules, regulations, and AI governance standards
- Support new product launches by scoping and communicating compliance requirements
- Drive remediation efforts for products within defined scope
- Support the compliance function with policies, documentation, and auditor liaison
- Mentor compliance colleagues and contribute to a culture of compliance
- Identify and assess compliance risks specific to AI and agentic systems
- Define compliance requirements for platforms AI is built on
- Establish and refine AI-specific compliance standards
Required qualifications
- 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 or standing up a new compliance domain
- Working knowledge of regulatory and supervisory framework relevant to AI in banking (UDAAP, fair lending, ECOA/Reg B, FCRA, Reg E, BSA/AML, GLBA, etc.)
- Familiarity with emerging AI-specific regimes and frameworks such as NIST AI Risk Management Framework
- Technical fluency to engage with engineers on model behavior, evaluation, testing, and data access controls
- Deep experience partnering with product and engineering teams on regulatory and compliance matters
- Ability to own highly ambiguous, large-scale compliance problems and execute strategy
- Experience designing compliance frameworks that span multiple product lines or departments
- Success operating with senior stakeholders, including executives, partner banks, auditors, or regulators
- Strong project management skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience mentoring mid-level compliance professionals
Nice to have
- experience within fintech or financial services
Benefits
- base salary
- equity (stock options/RSUs)
- benefits
About the company
Mercury is a fintech company. Banking services are provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.