Head of Technical Program Management - Banking
Core
Orchestrating the build of Mercury's bank charter, governance, and infrastructure across engineering, product, design, and data teams.
Role type
Head of Technical Program Management (Banking)
Builds
Core banking systems, credit/lending platforms, customer migration tools, and risk systems
Domain
Fintech / Banking / Regulated Financial Services
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Technical program management, cross-functional leadership, architecture-level tradeoff analysis, executive reporting, team building, ambiguity navigation, regulated industry experience
Preferred skills
Fintech or banking domain expertise, building TPM operating systems from scratch
Technologies
Automation tools, agentic flows, self-serve dashboards
Responsibilities
Own the program for Mercury's bank charter and governance work; Define the TPM operating system for the banking org; Build automation and agentic flows to run programs; Build and run exec-level reporting; Pressure-test timelines and estimates; Build and manage a team of TPMs; Drive decisions through ambiguity
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities
