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Business Continuity Management Lead

Mercury · San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States · Remote

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About Mercury

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About the role

Mercury is seeking a Business Continuity Management (BCM) Lead to build and lead an enterprise-wide continuity program as we prepare to become a bank. As part of the Risk team, this leader will establish practical standards, clear accountability, and tested capabilities to maintain critical services and recover effectively from disruptions, with direct visibility to the CRO and senior leadership. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Demonstrated experience building or materially enhancing an enterprise BCM program, including governance, implementation, testing, and reporting
  • Strong skills in business impact analysis, critical-service identification, dependency mapping, and recovery objective development
  • Experience developing actionable continuity plans and leading exercises that test recovery assumptions and expose gaps
  • Sufficient technical fluency to work with Engineering on cloud services, system dependencies, data recovery, and technology disaster recovery
  • Working knowledge of third-party risk management, including assessing critical vendor recovery capabilities, contingency arrangements and concentration risk
  • Proven ability to drive cross-functional remediation through influence, with a clear view of where BCM oversight ends and business or technology ownership begins
More about this role

Mercury is seeking a Business Continuity Management (BCM) Lead to build and lead an enterprise-wide continuity program as we prepare to become a bank. As part of the Risk team, this leader will establish practical standards, clear accountability, and tested capabilities to maintain critical services and recover effectively from disruptions, with direct visibility to the CRO and senior leadership.

This role fills the need for a dedicated leader to coordinate BCM across the organization. The ideal candidate combines deep continuity and resilience expertise with the judgment to build a proportionate program in a fast-moving environment, working effectively with Engineering, Operations, Product, Information Security, Legal, Compliance, and business teams.

The BCM Lead will own the enterprise framework, coordination, oversight, and reporting. Business and technology owners will remain accountable for their continuity plans and recovery execution.Because this is a new program, the Lead will be hands-on in the initial build: facilitating the first round of BIAs and plans side by side with owners, running exercises, and driving identified gaps through remediation. This leader will also...

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