Senior Risk Strategist - Fraud

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. To enable this stellar banking experience we need to have a deep understanding of our customers and how they interact with our product. We are looking to hire a strategist to bring risk expertise and an analytical approach to our Risk Strategy team driving impact in this crucial space.

Risk Strategy is a hybrid team that combines analytics with thought leadership to identify assess and mitigate the financial regulatory and reputational risks Mercury faces. The team focuses on data-driven insights and process improvements while ensuring a stellar customer experience that fosters trust in our platform.

As a Senior Risk Strategist focused on fraud you’ll help shape Mercury’s fraud strategy across multiple domains combining data-driven analysis with strategic problem solving. You’ll partner closely with Product Engineering Operations and Compliance to deliver scalable outcomes that enable the business and reduce fraud losses while protecting customer experience.

*Mercury is a financial technology company not a bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group Column N.A. and Evolve Bank & Trust Members FDIC.

As part of the journey we would expect you to:

• Drive strategy and execution across multiple fraud domains (onboarding card non-card ATO)

• Use data and quantitative analysis to design fraud controls mitigate risk and improve customer experience while balancing trade-offs

• Partner with Compliance and Legal to ensure solutions align with regulatory requirements

• Collaborate with Product Engineering and Operations to design and implement scalable risk solutions

• Build domain expertise identify gaps and proactively optimize fraud processes

• Define and track metrics that measure both risk effectiveness and customer impact

Some things that might make you successful in a role like this:

• 6+ years of experience in an analytical role including 4+ years in fraud trust and safety or a related risk function (startup or fintech experience a plus)

• Proven ability to design and execute fraud strategies across domains (e.g. onboarding card ACH checks ATO friendly fraud)

• Skilled in customer risk scoring/modeling and process automation

• Strong SQL proficiency and ability to translate data into actionable strategy

• Track record of balancing risk compliance and customer experience in cross-functional settings

• Excellent communication skills to simplify complex risk concepts into clear recommendations

• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and making decisions with imperfect information

• Curious growth-oriented and motivated to work on fraud problems at all lifecycle stages (new product launches scaling and legacy optimization)

The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary equity 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 (any location): $166600 - $208300

• Canadian employees (any location): CAD $157400 - $196800

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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