AI Ops Lead - Forward Deploy
Mercury · San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States
Posted 21 days ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 21 days Mercury's roles stay open a median of 42 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 2% of Mercury's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Mercury
- high 26 stale, 1 reposted of 60 open
- Hiring momentum
- 92 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Mercury's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Mercury.
About this role
As an AI Ops Lead at Mercury, you will work closely with various teams to identify and implement AI-driven improvements in their workflows. Your role involves embedding with teams, understanding their processes, and developing AI-powered tools and automations that enhance business outcomes. You will also focus on change management, ensuring that new workflows are adopted and sustained through training and documentation.
- benefits
- 2/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Mercury as an employer.
What you need
- 4–7 years of experience in management consulting, business operations, product operations, or a similar role where you owned a business outcome end to end
- Hands-on experience building with AI: agents, workflows, automations, internal tools
- Comfortable defining your own KPI, plan, and build in ambiguity, then defending all three to a skeptical team lead
- Fluent with tooling (APIs, low-code and no-code builders, SQL) and able to communicate effectively with teams about new tools
What you get
- Base salary
- Equity (stock options/RSUs)
- Highly competitive salary and equity ranges
- Regular updates based on reliable compensation survey data
Worth weighing
- No specific details on the tools and infrastructure provided by the AI Engineering team
- Role involves significant change management which may require strong interpersonal skills
- The position requires working in ambiguity, which may not suit all candidates
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Listed by Mercury on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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