Compensation & Equity Expert – Total Rewards

🔥 19 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $50 - $200 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👻 Ghost score 5%

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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

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📋 Description

• Advise Mercor's People team as it builds its compensation and equity foundation from scratch • Contribute expertise to compensation design, salary bands, leveling frameworks, and job architecture • Support annual compensation cycle design, including merit planning, promotions, bonuses, and equity refresh • Advise on peer benchmarking and executive-facing compensation recommendations • Design incentive structures • Advise on option and RSU program design, grant guidelines, pool planning, vesting structures, and refresh philosophy • Contribute to 409A valuations, plan governance, and grant administration • Build modeling and communication to explain equity value to candidates and employees • Participate in short, paid engagements scoped to one live question • Work on projects 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 executive teams • Designed incentive structures that are simple, credible, and behavior-changing • 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 • Unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid conversation about a live question, whether or not anything follows • 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 • Referral payments of up to $800 per successful referral, subject to limits • Reasonable accommodations upon request