Risk Strategist
Posted on 1/27/2023
INACTIVE
Mercury

201-500 employees

Banking for startups
Company Overview
Mercury is on a mission to build a banking stack for startups. The company provides banking services and APIs for startups.
Fintech

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$152M

Founded

2017

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

6%

2 year growth

66%
Locations
San Francisco, CA, USA • Remote • New York, NY, USA • Kingston, ON...
Experience Level
Entry
Junior
Mid
Senior
Expert
Requirements
  • Have 6+ years of experience in an analytical role, including 2+ years in Risk, Trust & Safety, or a related field
  • Have a strong product sense and user empathy
  • Possess good SQL skills and experience in applying those to improve and monitor business performance
  • Enjoy building programs from the ground up, and collaborating with various teams to achieve results
  • Be an analytical thinker - you use data and reason to make your arguments and drive decisions
  • Be comfortable with decision making in a fast paced, ambiguous environment, while demonstrating curiosity and growth mindset
Responsibilities
  • Lead cross-functional efforts to strengthen risk controls, improve user experience and scale operations
  • Partner with Product, Eng, Compliance, Data Science, Support and rest of the Risk team to proactively build capabilities that enhance our ability to take good risk
  • Identify and address gaps and vulnerabilities in our system to reduce fraud and non-compliant product usage
  • Utilize data and quantitative analysis to build automated risk solutions
  • Make thoughtful risk / reward trade-offs and help set a long term strategy for risk problem areas
  • Become an expert on Mercury's products, and Risk's program, policies, and tools
  • US employees in the New York City or San Francisco Bay area: $182,800-$201,000 USD
  • US employees outside of the New York City or San Francisco Bay area: $155,500-$179,000 USD
  • Canadian employees (any location): CAD 162,500-178,500