Head of Product - Business Banking

<p>In 1851, a New York bookkeeper named George D. Lyman observed the same absurd ritual each afternoon: porters carried bags of coins and bundles of checks bank to bank down Wall Street, settling by hand, a fortune exposed to error and theft. Lyman's fix: send everything through one central office and settle the net. On October 11, 1853, in the basement of 14 Wall Street, 52 banks cleared $22.6 million in a single sitting. Money between banks had stopped being an event and became seamless infrastructure.</p> <p>A century and a half later, the hard part is unchanged: moving money once is easy; making it work every time, for hundreds of thousands of businesses, across every rail, is hard. The bank account is where a company's financial life happens - payroll clears or it doesn't; a wire lands or a deal slips; the month closes clean, or someone loses a weekend to it. Mercury is building a business banking* product at a scale better than anything else in the market.</p> <p>Business Banking is the heart of Mercury. We're looking for a Head of Product to own it end-to-end: setting product strategy, leading a team of product managers, driving deposit and payment growth, and owning business performance.&nbsp;</p> <p><em>*Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.</em></p> <h3>Key responsibilities:</h3> <ul> <li>Own the P&amp;L, strategy, and product offering: accounts, user experience, payments, new rails, and agents</li> <li>Build AI - and data-driven user experiences at scale better than the alternatives</li> <li>Build and scale the org: recruit and lead a high-performing PM team, instill strong build discipline, develop future leaders, and set an operating cadence and culture that drives pace and quality</li> <li>Deepen the core account and take new products 0-1 to scale: optimize what businesses run on, and invest in new rails, capabilities, and agents so customers can focus on building their companies</li> <li>Make reliability and trust product features: own uptime, correctness, latency, and support outcomes, and be measured on them</li> <li>Align the banking ecosystem: bring product, engineering, design, data, risk, compliance, legal, marketing, sales, support, and partners behind one cohesive strategy</li> </ul> <h3>Some things that might make you successful in a role like this:</h3> <ul> <li>A leader with great product chops, commercial instinct to grow the business, and discipline to run it safely</li> <li>A high bar for craft – leading a creative, customer-centered, data-driven and experimentation-oriented approach</li> <li>Enthusiasm for building AI- and agent-powered products that drive spectacular customer experiences&