Compensation & Equity Expert – Total Rewards

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Assist Mercor's People team in establishing its compensation and equity framework from the ground up.

• Provide guidance on compensation philosophy and job leveling across various functions.

• Create and organize salary bands, job structures, merit planning, promotions, bonuses, and equity refreshes.

• Develop and oversee option and RSU programs, including grants, pools, vesting schedules, refreshes, valuations, governance, and administration.

• Construct models and communication strategies to clarify equity value for candidates and employees.

• Engage in a brief screening process and, if chosen, partake in a paid discussion addressing a real business question.

• Complete defined projects that last a few hours, with the possibility of extensions or early conclusions.

• Contribute expertise to projects aimed at training and improving AI systems.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience as a Total Rewards practitioner in compensation design and architecture or equity program management.

• Proven ability to establish salary bands, leveling frameworks, and job architecture from the beginning.

• Experience managing annual compensation cycles, including merit planning, promotion decisions, bonus programs, and equity refresh processes.

• Familiarity with benchmarking against peer organizations and defending recommendations to executive teams.

• Skilled in designing incentive structures.

• Expertise in creating option and RSU programs, including grant guidelines, pool planning, vesting structures, and refresh philosophy.

• Knowledgeable in 409A valuations, plan governance, and grant administration within a venture-backed setting.

• Ability to build models and communications that elucidate equity value for candidates and employees.

• Additional experience in compensation philosophy, benchmarking methods, pay equity, pay transparency, compensation for global or contractor workforces, benefits program design, HRIS and compensation tools, executive compensation, plan governance, or equity in preparation for IPO readiness.

• Must be capable of working as an independent contractor.

• H1-B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported.

🏝️ Benefits

• Compensation for participating in a conversation about a live question, regardless of subsequent engagement.

• Fully remote work environment.

• Flexible schedule; complete work at your own convenience.

• Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise based on services performed.

• Competitive compensation.

• Opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers.

• Chance to influence the development of the next generation of AI systems.

• Up to $800 for each successful referral.