\nThe quintessential tenet of Mercury is enabling startups of all sizes to experience the magic of banking* with Mercury. The Banking team at Mercury is obsessively focused on evolving the banking experience for our customers through evolution of our Banking Platform. \n\nAs a product manager on this team, you will own the next step of this evolution and define the strategy and roadmap to enable seamless banking experiences across customers’ accounts through the ownership of our banking platform.\n\nThis is a technical product role that requires empathy and foresight into our users’ present and future needs as they pertain to banking and moving money. You will work within a complex ecosystem of domestic and international banking networks to quickly identify issues, define solutions, and articulate their importance and impact across teams. You will utilize your data acuity to better prioritize and justify the banking platform roadmap across user experiences and partner integrations. You will collaborate across internal and external teams to jointly shape plans that lead to great banking experiences, working tirelessly to mask the “under the hood” complexities for our users.\n\nSecure, reliable, thoughtful, and (perhaps) magical, is how a user should describe the banking experience on Mercury. Your job is to help the team aspire to that description.\n\n*Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC.\n\n \n\nAs part of the journey, we would expect you to:\n\n\n* Co-own an ambitious product roadmap for the banking platform from ideation to execution with your partners in risk, compliance, data and engineering\n\n* Develop a framework for banking platform product health in partnership with data science, set KPIs that help to drive high quality decision-making\n\n* Prioritize areas of product investment using a range of qualitative and quantitative inputs, often to make tradeoffs in a highly ambiguous environment\n\n* Be a collaborative powerhouse across Mercury, ensuring stakeholders are brought in and aligned on the vision of Mercury’s banking platform and feels joint ownership over strategy and results\n\n* Create strategy and frameworks to inform our future banking partnerships strategy\n\n* Clearly communicate technical and non-technical product specifications for banking improvements/features to enable efficiency across a wide breadth of stakeholders\n\n* Deepen the team’s understanding of how various partners enable banking experiences on the platform and maintain a consistently great user experience across partnerships\n\n* Identify opportunities to improve our banking services network, enabling both larger and smaller scale projects\n\n* Drive accountability — hold yourself and others accountable in service of great work\n\n\n\n\nSome things that might make you successful in a role like this:\n\n\n* Have 5+ years of relevant product management experience in a growth stage financial technology company working directly with engineering on platform products\n\n* Be technically inclined to produce detailed-oriented requirements that enable your team to ship high quality features\n\n* Be able to balance a deep technical understanding of product and partner requirements with user empathy\n\n* Be able to take complex problems and distill them into first principles\n\n\n\n\nThe 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. \n\n \n\nNew hire offers are made based on a job 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:\n\nThe salary range for candidates in the US is $173,600 – $204,200 USD.\n\nThe salary range for candidates in Canada is CAD 158,000 – 185,800.\n\n \n\nWe use Covey as part of our hiring and / or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT. As part of the evaluation process we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound on January 22, 2024. Please see the independent bias audit report covering our use of Covey here. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to SaaS and Senior jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSan Francisco, California, United States

\nAbout Umba:\nAt Umba, we are building a digital bank for emerging markets, offering intelligent, affordable financial products. We are currently live with an Android app in Kenya & Nigeria with our digital banking services.\nOne third of the worlds 2 billion unbanked people live in Sub-Saharan Africa, and we are here to bring these customers free banking services and bring them into the formal financial system. It's an exciting mission and one that we are excited to deliver on.\nWe welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone has access to liquid capital, free money transfers, and saving & investment opportunities. If you're curious about Fintech or emerging markets and have a passionate, hardworking spirit, work with us and let's put opportunity in everyone's pocket.\nWhat we do:\nWe rely heavily on our engineering team to realize this vision. Building a software platform that is reliable, scales, and achieves excellent uptime while serving emerging markets with immature tech stacks is a serious technical challenge.\nAs Director of Engineering, you will report directly to the CEO, and lead our engineering team. You will also work directly with our Data Science, Product, and Management teams to deliver features that improve our customer's experiences and drive business growth.\nThis role is a senior role at the company and we would like you to be engaged in strategic decisions on all parts of the business. We see this an an incredibly important hire and one that can grow into a C-Suite leadership role. We want someone who can scale along with the business. \nWhat you'll do:\n* Craft, code, test and launch new features\n* Participate in brainstorming sessions and contribute ideas to our technology, algorithms, and products\n* Dive into difficult problems and successfully deliver results on schedule\n* Manage a team of engineers and help build the culture at Umba\n\n\nBasic Qualifications:\n* BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience\n* 2+ years of experience building systems software engineering\n* Strong understanding fo computer architecture and CS fundamentals\n* Proficient in one of the following programming languages: Java, Go, Python, C/C++\n\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\n* 4+ years of experience building systems software engineering\n* Detailed problem-solving approach\n* Track record of projects completed on time - you are a self-starter & an executor, who is results oriented\n* You're fun to work with! We are a very diverse and friendly team that prioritizes building relationships and unlocking everyone's full potential\n\n\nWork Status:\n* Valid work authorization for US\n\n\nUmba is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Executive, Senior, Android and Legal jobs that are similar:\n\n $80,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n