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AI Context Operations Lead

Mercury San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States Full-time Strategic Operations Posted Jul 22, 2026
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What it’s like to work at Mercury

Startup Banking · San Francisco

4.3
Employee Rating
3.8
Work-Life Balance
56
Open Roles
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What employees love

  • Strong talent density with smart, motivated teammates and genuine autonomy and ownership
  • Great Place to Work certified — product-first mindset with meaningful scope for every engineer

What could be better

  • Still figuring out how to scale processes — expect some ambiguity and shifting priorities
  • Work-life balance rated 3.8/5 — periods of higher intensity during rapid growth phases
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About the Role

Mercury is building a whole stack of financial tools for startups. We work hard to create dashboards with thought and simplicity. You can check out our demo dashboard at www.demo.mercury.com.

Behind every product Mercury ships is a fast-growing company: dozens of teams across engineering, product, design, data, and business functions, and hundreds of projects that require alignment across compliance, legal, partnerships, customer support, finance, and leadership. AI Ops builds the systems that keep that organization moving, helping teams move quickly without losing shared context.

In this role, you'll own Mercury's internal knowledge infrastructure: the systems and standards that make company information accurate, discoverable, and useful. You'll build and maintain a trusted context layer—a structured, living record of what teams own, are building, and know—and ensure it stays current automatically.

That context layer powers leadership reporting, planning, operational reviews, and the internal AI agents employees use every day. You'll define how information is organized, validated, and maintained across systems like Linear and Mercury's internal platforms so they function as a single source of truth.

Working closely with Engineering, who own the underlying infrastructure, you'll design the knowledge layer above it: the taxonomies, schemas, validation workflows, and automations that make company knowledge reliable for both people and AI systems.

This role sits at the intersection of systems operations, knowledge architecture, and product thinking. Success isn't measured by collecting more information, but by creating a high-signal knowledge system that helps employees find answers quickly, enables leaders to make decisions from shared context, and gives AI systems the foundation they need to operate effectively.

Mercury aims to make banking* feel secure, reliable, thoughtful, and perhaps even magical. Your job is to make the company's internal knowledge systems just as dependable.

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

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The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options), 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:

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

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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the work-life balance like at Mercury?
Mercury has a work-life balance score of 3.8/5 based on employee reviews. This is about average for the AI/tech industry.
What is Mercury’s culture like?
Mercury is characterized by these culture values: product-impact, eng-driven, ship-fast, learning, equity. Based on employee reviews, the company has an overall rating of 4.3/5. Strong talent density with smart, motivated teammates and genuine autonomy and ownership
How many open roles does Mercury have?
Mercury currently has 56 open roles across departments including engineering, product, sales, and more. Roles are refreshed daily from their careers page.
Is this role remote-friendly?
This role is located in San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States. Check the job description above for specific location and remote work details.
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