Mercury
Finance / FinServ
SeniorProductManager-Ledger
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“Senior Product Manager - Ledger at Mercury. Skills: platform ownership, financial rigor, technical depth. Own the Ledger roadmap: Drive strategy and execution for Mercury's Double Entry Ledger (DEL)—the financial system of record. Drive org-wide ledger adoption: Partner with payment rails teams to enable their flows on the ledger platform, ensuring event-to-ledger integration is clean, correct, and scalable”
What You'll Achieve.
deliver on customer trust; every dollar must be accounted for, in every account, across every transaction, with a complete audit trail; makes precise reconciliation possible; ensure every ledger entry is accurate, traceable, and exception-free
Industry & Context.
think in systems; model second and third-order effects; communicate tradeoffs
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
7+ years of product management experience in fintech, financial services, or platform/infrastructure product roles, Real technical fluency: you can engage credibly with engineers on event-sourced architectures, database consistency models, double-entry accounting data models, and financial data pipelines—not as a generalist, but as a peer, Meaningful background in accounting, finance, or banking operations—you understand chart of accounts, GL mapping, journal entries, reconciliation workflows, and why they matter to regulators, Experience building and scaling internal platform products with broad adoption requirements—you know how to work with adopter teams, reduce onboarding friction, and drive org-wide standardization across a distributed set of engineers, A highly structured, data-driven approach to product decisions: you think in systems, model second and third-order effects, and communicate tradeoffs in a way that lands with both engineering and finance audiences, Exceptional cross-functional communication—you earn credibility in rooms with accountants, engineers, compliance officers, and regulators, and you hold your own in all of them
What You'll Do.
Own the Ledger roadmap: Drive strategy and execution for Mercury's Double Entry Ledger (DEL)—the financial system of record
Drive org-wide ledger adoption: Partner with payment rails teams to enable their flows on the ledger platform
ensuring event-to-ledger integration is clean
Remove adoption friction
and accelerate the standardization that makes precise reconciliation possible
Build next generation financial infrastructure: Own the implementation of our financial processes across charts of accounts
transfer code definitions
and GL mapping frameworks that connect to our core systems of record
Partner with Finance and Accounting: Translate accounting requirements into product architecture
and translate product decisions back to stakeholders who think in debits
and regulatory reports
Drive alignment on GL mappings
and financial reporting pipelines
Set the financial data standard: Define what clean
reconcilable financial data looks like at Mercury
Work with the Reconciliation team to ensure every ledger entry is accurate
high-stakes stakeholder environment: Coordinate across banking platform teams
Risk—all of whom depend on your platform and have a voice in how it evolves
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with payment rails teams; Partner with Finance and Accounting; Coordinate across banking platform teams, payment rails teams, Finance, Compliance, Risk
Communication Scope
Exceptional cross-functional communication; earn credibility in rooms with accountants, engineers, compliance officers, and regulators; hold your own in all of them
Process & Methodology
Drive strategy and execution
Full Job Description
Mercury's ability to deliver on customer trust comes down to one thing: every dollar must be accounted for, in every account, across every transaction, with a complete audit trail that satisfies regulators, engineers, and accountants alike. Mercury's Ledger is the system that makes that possible—a double-entry bookkeeping engine that records every financial event as balanced, auditable entries as money moves through Mercury's products and banking* infrastructure. We're looking for a Senior Product Manager to own this platform across Mercury. The Ledger team sits at the intersection of financial infrastructure, regulatory accountability, and org-wide platform adoption—and the PM who leads it will need to be as comfortable discussing chart of accounts design as reviewing event schemas. This is a load-bearing platform role: the decisions made here flow downstream to every payment rail at Mercury and have direct impact on regulatory and reporting obligations. *Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC. As part of the journey, we would expect you to: Own the Ledger roadmap: Drive strategy and execution for Mercury's Double Entry Ledger (DEL)—the financial system of record. Drive org-wide ledger adoption: Partner with payment rails teams to enable their flows on the ledger platform, ensuring event-to-ledger integration is clean, correct, and scalable. Remove adoption friction, establish patterns, and accelerate the standardization that makes precise reconciliation possible. Build next generation financial infrastructure: Own the implementation of our financial processes across charts of accounts, transfer code definitions, and GL mapping frameworks that connect to our core systems of record. Partner with Finance and Accounting: Translate accounting requirements into product architecture, and translate product decisions back to stakeholders who think in debits, credits, jou
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