Compensation & Equity Expert – Total Rewards

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $50 - $200 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👻 Ghost score 4%

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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 build its compensation and equity foundation from scratch • Advise on compensation philosophy, salary bands, leveling frameworks, and job architecture • Advise on annual compensation cycles, merit planning, promotions, bonuses, and equity refreshes • Benchmark compensation against peer companies and defend recommendations to executives • Design incentive structures that influence behavior • Develop and manage option and RSU programs, including grant guidelines, pool planning, vesting, refresh philosophy, 409A valuations, governance, and grant administration • Build modeling and communication materials explaining equity value to candidates and employees • Participate in paid, scoped conversations addressing live compensation and equity questions • Work on projects focused on training and enhancing AI systems using human expertise

🎯 Requirements

• Depth as a Total Rewards practitioner in compensation design and architecture and/or equity program management • Built salary bands, leveling frameworks, and job architecture from the ground up • Owned an annual compensation cycle, including merit planning, promotion decisions, bonus programs, and equity refresh • Benchmarked against a peer set and defended recommendations to an executive team • Designed incentive structures that were simple, credible, and changed behavior • Designed option and RSU programs, including grant guidelines, pool planning, vesting structures, and refresh philosophy • Worked through 409A valuations, plan governance, and grant administration at a venture-backed company • Built modeling and communication enabling candidates and employees to understand equity value • Independent contractor status • Must not require H1-B or STEM OPT support

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid conversation about a live question, whether or not anything follows • Fully remote work • Flexible 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 referral payment for each successful referral • Reasonable accommodations upon request