Compensation & Equity Expert – Total Rewards

🔥 14 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $50 - $200 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👻 Ghost score 2%

What it means: how likely this posting is sitting open without active hiring.How to read it: 60% or higher means we think this is a ghost. Lower scores are less of a worry.How we score it: age, reposts, open roles vs team size, how fast jobs close, and whether pay is listed.Fine print: an estimate from public data, not a judgment of the company. Real jobs can score high, so treat it as a hint, not a fact.

Apply Now

Find Similar Remote Jobs

Set Up Email Alert For New Jobs

📊 Check your resume score for this job

Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.

Upload Resume

Mercor

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $350M Series C - Mercor on 2025-10

Mercor is a company for which no descriptive text was provided in the input. Additional information (products, services, target customers, or industry specifics) is needed to create an accurate summary and select appropriate industries.

📋 Description

• Help Mercor's People team build its compensation and equity foundation from scratch • Advise on compensation philosophy and leveling across different functions • Design and structure salary bands, job architecture, merit planning, promotions, bonuses, and equity refreshes • Develop and manage option and RSU programs, including grants, pools, vesting, refreshes, valuations, governance, and administration • Build modeling and communications to explain equity value to candidates and employees • Participate in a short screening process and, if selected, a paid conversation addressing a live business question • Complete scoped projects lasting a few hours at a time, with possible extensions or early conclusions • Contribute expertise to projects training and enhancing AI systems

🎯 Requirements

• Depth as a Total Rewards practitioner in compensation design and architecture and/or equity program management • Experience building salary bands, leveling frameworks, and job architecture from the ground up • Experience owning annual compensation cycles, including merit planning, promotion decisions, bonus programs, and equity refresh • Experience benchmarking against a peer set and defending recommendations to executive teams • Experience designing incentive structures • Experience designing option and RSU programs, including grant guidelines, pool planning, vesting structures, and refresh philosophy • Experience with 409A valuations, plan governance, and grant administration at a venture-backed company • Experience building modeling and communication that explains equity value to candidates and employees • Additional valuable experience in compensation philosophy, benchmarking methodology, pay equity, pay transparency, global or contractor workforce compensation, benefits program design, HRIS and compensation tooling, executive compensation, plan governance, or equity through IPO readiness • Must be able to work as an independent contractor • H1-B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid conversation about a live question, whether or not anything follows • Fully remote work • Flexible schedule; work can be completed on your own schedule • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered • Competitive pay • Collaboration with leading researchers • Opportunity to help shape the next generation of AI systems • Up to $800 per successful referral