Skip to content
CV Rocket
Get started
How it worksThe enginePricingBlogContactSign in

Open nowPosted 57 days agoWe saw it 36 min after it went up

Trading Operations Lead

Mercury74 open roles

Pay
$135,000 – $168,700 a year
Where
San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States
Work mode
Remote
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Your applicationOpen nowTrading Operations LeadMercury · San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States

  1. YouYes, apply to this one.

  2. CV RocketCV written for this posting.

  3. 25 readersRecruiter, hiring manager, skeptic. Round after round.

  4. CV RocketApplied on Mercury's own form.

The reply lands in your private mailbox

3×more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

The clock on this job

Early applications get read.

13.8% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. Mercury postings stay open a median of 48 days.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 2.2%1 day
  2. 4.7%3 days
  3. 13.8%7 days
  4. 22.3%14 days
  5. 37.8%30 days
  6. 59.0%60 days
This job: posted 57 days ago

Mercury median: 48 days open

The posting

Mercury is building a complete finance stack for startups. We work hard to create the easiest and safest banking* experience possible to simplify entrepreneurs’ and business owners’ financial lives. Underneath all our products is a massive web of partners that users don’t see, requiring significant product and process investment. That’s where the Financial Partnership Operations team comes in. We work to maintain our external relationships and streamline our collective workflows to keep customers, partners, and Mercury employees happy.

We’re looking for a Trading Operations Lead to own and scale the trading operations function powering Mercury’s SEC-registered investment advisor and FINRA-member broker-dealer. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone with deep brokerage and trading operations expertise who can both set the standard for how the function operates and step directly into complex operational work when needed. This role is ideal for someone who has operated in a detail-rich, regulated environment, has strong opinions about what good trading operations looks like, communicates clearly across technical and non-technical teams, and wants the opportunity to build and evolve the function rather than simply inherit it.

*Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.

In this role, you will:

  • Own the trading operations and supervisory framework, providing licensed principal oversight of order and trade activity across money market funds, mutual funds, ETFs, and fixed income; oversee operational controls, reconciliations, exceptions, and escalations, partnering closely with Engineering and Product on system-managed workflows and with our carrying broker and other investment partners to investigate issues, resolve breaks, and ensure trading activity operates within established procedures and supervisory requirements.
  • Own the trade surveillance and operational control framework, including licensed supervisory review where required, oversight of pre- and post-trade controls, best execution monitoring, trade breaks and errors, escalation and remediation, and evidence that required reviews and controls are operating as designed; coordinate with Financial Crimes on surveillance alerts, suspicious activity escalations, and shared monitoring obligations.
  • Own supervision of trading and order-flow reporting obligations, including CAT (all elements, including annual clock synchronization), CAIS, and TRACE, coordinating with our carrying broker and third-party reporting vendor; ensure timely and accurate compliance with SEC Rules 606 and 607 and FINRA Rule 6151, and provide supervisory review of customer account statements and trade confirmations.
  • Serve as the operational escalation point for trade errors, breaks, and settlement issues, coordinating investigation and resolution across Engineering, Product, Compliance, and our carrying and executing partners, assessing customer impact, and ensuring recurring issues result in appropriate process or control improvements.
  • Oversee trading-related books and records requirements, partnering with Engineering, Compliance, and our carrying broker to ensure required trade, order, allocation, and supervisory records are appropriately generated, retained, and retrievable.
  • Own and maintain trading operations procedures and contribute to applicable Written Supervisory Procedures, ensuring documented controls and supervisory practices remain aligned with how our products, systems, and partner relationships operate.
  • Lead trading operations readiness for regulatory exams, audits, and internal testing, including producing operational evidence, supporting responses, remediating findings, and translating identified gaps into sustainable process or system improvements.
  • Manage day-to-day operational relationships with our carrying broker, executing brokers, custodians, fund companies, and transfer agents, including escalations, service-level performance, issue resolution, and operational change management.
  • Partner closely with Product and Engineering on system-managed trading workflows and controls, bringing the operational and supervisory perspective to requirements, pressure-testing exceptions and edge cases, and ensuring appropriate operational readiness and oversight before launch, including post-launch operational testing to confirm controls perform as designed in production.
  • Build the reporting and operational visibility needed to oversee the trading function, including volumes, breaks and errors, aging exceptions, settlement performance, and control effectiveness, using those insights to identify risk, capacity constraints, and opportunities for improvement.
  • Partner with Compliance, Finance, Legal, Risk, Product, and Engineering on new products, partners, and regulatory changes, defining the trading operations and supervisory requirements needed to launch and operate them safely.

You should:

  • Hold active FINRA Series 7, Series 63, and Series 24 licenses (Series 99 or Series 57 a plus.
  • 8+ years in trading, brokerage, or investment operations, including direct ownership of trade lifecycle, settlement, or trading control functions.
  • Have hands-on operational experience across fixed income, mutual funds, and ETFs — you know where each product breaks and why.
  • Have built or materially improved a trade surveillance or operational control framework, not just executed someone else’s.
  • Possess a strong working knowledge of the operational requirements under FINRA and SEC rules — including recordkeeping, supervision, best execution, trade reporting, and customer protection — and know how to apply them to workflows that don’t have an obvious precedent.
  • Communicate clearly in writing — procedures, escalations, and post-mortems that a regulator, an engineer, and an executive can each read and act on.
  • Be comfortable operating in ambiguity and at speed, and be willing to design the process rather than wait for one.
  • Bring judgment about when to automate, when to add a control, and when to accept a manual step — and be able to defend the call.

Nice to have:

  • Experience at a fintech or high-growth firm operating a broker-dealer or RIA at scale.
  • Experience standing up a new product, partner, or clearing relationships from scratch.
  • Comfort with SQL or working directly in internal tooling to investigate issues yourself.

Mercury values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Mercury are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.

#LI-AR1

Total Rewards The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), 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. New hire offers are made based on a 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:

US employees in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area:

$135,000—$168,700 USD

US employees outside of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area:

$121,500—$151,800 USD

From $25, paid onceGet the CV for this job

What happens when you press

One press. We do the rest.

  1. A CV for this posting

    Written against Mercury's own wording, from every piece of relevant proof in your profile.

  2. 25 readers review it

    Recruiter, hiring manager, skeptic and more read every draft, round after round. You get the best round.

    The review screen in CV Rocket: how each CV was read, round by round.

  3. We apply on Mercury's form

    Our application engine gets through the hardest forms there are. Where a question needs you, AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

    An application in CV Rocket: every answer filled in on the employer's form.

  4. Every reply, sorted

    Mercury's answer lands in your private mailbox, and we classify it on arrival: interview, question, rejection.

    The CV Rocket inbox: each employer reply classified as an interview, an action or a rejection.

  5. Reply with AI

    AI helps you write the email, checks it and sends it. We show you whether the recruiter read it.

  6. The interview in your calendar

    Full integration with your calendar. The invitation goes straight in.

    An interview invitation in the CV Rocket inbox, added to the candidate's calendar.
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Why it works

3×

more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

ChatGPT writes a CV and never learns what happened to it. We see every reply. For each CV we know:

  • How it was written, and how the review scored it
  • When we applied, and how long after the posting went up
  • Which posting, which company, which city
  • Who got the interview, and who heard nothing

That is how we know which CVs get called.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

The numbers game

More applications. More interviews.

Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting and paid once. Send enough of them and the law of large numbers finds you the job.

Get the CV for this job
By hand5–10
With CV Rocket100
applications a day

Nearby

Live postings like this one

Same employer first, then the same role elsewhere.

Before you press

Straight answers

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

What if my background isn't good enough?

We make the most of the background you have. The CV uses every piece of relevant proof your profile holds, and one of the 25 readers reads your whole profile and flags what the CV left out.

Do you really apply for me?

Yes, on the employer's own form, the hardest ones included. Where a question needs you, you answer it right there and AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

Is it a subscription?

No. You pay once per CV, from $25. Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting.

One job. One CV.
Paid once.

Pick the posting you want. We write for it, apply for you and catch the reply.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.