Compensation & Equity Expert – Total Rewards

🔥 15 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $50 - $200 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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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 design and architecture, including salary bands, leveling frameworks, and job architecture • Advise on annual compensation cycles, merit planning, promotion decisions, bonus programs, and equity refresh • Advise on benchmarking and compensation structures for executive review • Design incentive structures • Advise on equity program management, including option and RSU programs, grant guidelines, pool planning, vesting structures, and refresh philosophy • Support 409A valuations, plan governance, and grant administration • Build modeling and communications explaining equity value to candidates and employees • Participate in scoped paid engagements addressing live compensation 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 compensation against a peer set and defended it to executive leadership • Designed simple, credible incentive structures that 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 explaining equity value to candidates and employees • Experience with compensation philosophy, benchmarking methodology, pay equity, and pay transparency is valuable • Experience designing compensation 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/interview regardless of whether anything follows • Fully remote work • Flexible schedule / work 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 for each successful referral