Compensation & Equity Expert – Total Rewards

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $50 - $200 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👻 Ghost score 8%

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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

• Advise Mercor's People team as it builds its compensation and equity foundation from scratch • Address live compensation and equity questions through scoped engagements • Participate in a short screening process followed by a paid conversation if background fits • Work on projects involving compensation philosophy, leveling across functions, equity grants, and explaining equity value • Collaborate on projects focused on training and enhancing AI systems using human expertise

🎯 Requirements

• Depth 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 the benchmark to an executive team • 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 to explain equity value to candidates and employees • Experience with compensation philosophy, benchmarking methodology, pay equity, and pay transparency is valuable • Experience with compensation design for a global or contractor workforce at scale is valuable • Experience with benefits program design, HRIS and compensation tooling is valuable • Experience with executive compensation, plan governance, or equity through IPO readiness is valuable • Must be able to work as an independent contractor • H1-B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid conversation, whether or not anything follows • Fully remote work • Flexible schedule / work on your own schedule • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered • Potential project extensions • Competitive pay • Collaboration with leading researchers • Work helping shape the next generation of AI systems