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Mercury Technologies, Inc.: Head of Product - Business Lending
Observed on the employer’s careers system, last checked 2026-09-07.
- Employer
- Mercury Technologies, Inc.
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States
- Category
- Product
- Posted
- 2026-07-01
- Careers system
- greenhouse
- Observed
- 2026-09-07
Role description
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In 1910, a Norfolk lawyer named Arthur Morris kept seeing the same thing: a steadily employed worker needed a small loan, the banks turned him away for lack of collateral, and he was left with nowhere reputable to borrow. Morris decided a banking system that shut out most of the people it was meant to serve had a "weak spot" worth fixing, so he built a lender that lent on character and steady income, backed by two references and repaid in small installments. What made it matter wasn't any single loan, but that Morris turned the idea into a repeatable system and scaled it to more than a hundred Morris Plan banks across thirty-seven states. A century later, the hard part is unchanged: making one good loan is easy; building a business that makes millions of them well is hard. Mercury is building a banking*-grade lending business, where credit extends the trust businesses already place in…
Provenance
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