Compensation & Equity Expert (Total Rewards)
Mercor's People team is building its compensation and equity foundation from scratch. We want to think it through with people who have done it before. — We're looking for Total Rewards practitioners with depth in one or both of the following. Either one on its own is enough. — Compensation design & architecture • Built salary bands, leveling frameworks, and job architecture from the ground up • Owned an annual compensation cycle: merit planning, promotion decisions, bonus programs, equity refresh • Benchmarked against a peer set you then had to defend to a skeptical exec team • Designed incentive structures that were simple, credible, and changed behavior — Equity program management • Designed option and RSU programs: grant guidelines, pool planning, vesting structures, refresh philosophy • Worked through 409A valuations, plan governance, and grant administration at a venture-backed company • Built the modeling and communication that lets candidates and employees understand what their equity is worth — Those two are what we screen on. Nothing below is required. If you have the whole Total Rewards picture, say so. — Also valuable • Compensation philosophy, benchmarking methodology, pay equity and pay transparency • Compensation design for a global or contractor workforce at scale • Benefits program design, HRIS and compensation tooling • Executive compensation, plan governance, or equity through IPO readiness — Context — Mercor is a Series C company at a $10B valuation, scaling from roughly 500 employees, with a large global contractor network alongside a growing full-time workforce. Nothing is settled yet: what the compensation philosophy should be, how levels map across very different functions, how equity gets granted and explained. — How this works — Applying starts with a short screen. If your background fits, we'll invite you to a paid conversation about a live question we're facing. You're paid for it whether or not anything follows. — Rate is $50–$200/hr depending on depth of experience. Engagements run a few hours at a time, scoped to one question. — We review every submission.