Head of Media - Mercury

About Mercury

Mercury is one of the fastest-growing companies in fintech, aiming to be a premium consumer-facing brand. We are seeking the right person to shape and deliver our brand team’s investment strategy and media approach, offering significant financial and career upside as the company continues to grow.

The Role

As Head of Media, you will report to our Head of Brand and be responsible for amplifying Mercury's launches and company narrative across paid channels. This includes oversight of agency relationships, key partners, and measurement. This is a unique opportunity to build a differentiated approach for a brand that is unafraid to think differently and challenge competitors.

What You'll Do

• Own Mercury's media investment strategy — Build and execute the plan for a budget doubling year over year. Decide where, when, and how to invest across channels to deliver near-term results while building an approach that scales with the spend.
• Differentiate how Mercury shows up in market — Develop a media and distribution approach that stands apart from the standard playbook. Outmaneuver competitors who outspend us through unconventional channels, formats, partnerships, and creative use of media buys.
• Lead our agency and media partners — Set the agenda, maintain a high bar for their work, and source, evaluate, and onboard new partners as needs evolve.
• Build the measurement system — Establish a rigorous framework for attribution, incrementality, and optimization that can support significant spend. Leverage learnings to drive investment decisions.
• Connect media to the broader marketing ecosystem — Integrate paid media with brand, performance, community, content, lifecycle, and product marketing so that media amplifies what the rest of the team creates rather than running in parallel.

What You'll Bring

• Deep media expertise — 15+ years building and running a media investment strategy on a fast-growing budget, with a proven track record delivering and measuring short-term wins while putting systems in place that last.
• Market leadership — You find unique, high-impact approaches others haven't considered, with examples of media work recognized as differentiated.
• Systems thinking — You view media as one part of a larger marketing engine and design programs that make everything else Mercury does travel further and more efficiently.
• Rigorous measurement — You are fluent in attribution, incrementality testing, and media mix modeling, and can translate analysis into confident decisions and a clear story for leadership.
• Track record of agency management — You have managed agencies and vendors and know how to assess their work and hold them accountable.

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. New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.

Target new hire base salary ranges for this role are:

• US employees in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: $233,600—$292,000 USD
• US employees outside of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: $210,200—$262,800 USD
• Canadian employees (any location): $220,700—$275,900 CAD