Senior Manager, Data & AI Governance

Mercury, a financial technology company serving business banking customers, is seeking a Data and AI Governance leader to build and spearhead an enterprise-wide governance program for data and artificial intelligence. Reporting to the Chief Risk Officer, this leader establishes practical standards for how data and AI are owned, developed, used, protected, and monitored across the organization. The role works closely with the Model Risk Management and Information Security teams while holding a distinct mandate: Data and AI Governance owns enterprise governance and responsible-use standards, while Model Risk Management retains model inventory, tiering, validation, and model-risk oversight. The Senior Manager develops Mercury's enterprise data and AI governance frameworks, policies, standards, and operating model, and establishes clear accountability for data ownership, stewardship, quality, lineage, classification, access, retention, and appropriate use. The role creates a risk-based governance process for AI use cases across their full lifecycle, including intake, assessment, approval, implementation, monitoring, and retirement, and develops responsible-AI principles addressing transparency, explainability, fairness, privacy, security, human oversight, reliability, and regulatory compliance. It also maintains an enterprise inventory of material data assets, AI use cases, and related governance