Job Description
Mercor's People team is building its compensation and equity foundation from scratch.
We want to think it through with people who have done it before.
We're looking for Total Rewards practitioners with depth in one or both of the following.
Either one on its own is enough.
Compensation design & architecture
Built salary bands, leveling frameworks, and job architecture from the ground up
Owned an annual compensation cycle: merit planning, promotion decisions, bonus programs, equity refresh
Benchmarked against a peer set you then had to defend to a skeptical exec team
Designed incentive structures that were simple, credible, and changed behavior
Equity program management
Designed option and RSU programs: grant guidelines, pool planning, vesting structures, refresh philosophy
Worked through 409A valuations, plan governance, and grant administration at a venture-backed company




Built the modeling and communication that lets candidates and employees understand what their equity is worth
Those two are what we screen on.
Nothing below is required.
If you have the whole Total Rewards picture, say so.
Also valuable
Compensation philosophy, benchmarking methodology, pay equity and pay transparency
Compensation design for a global or contractor workforce at scale
Advantages program design, HRIS and compensation tooling
Executive compensation, plan governance, or equity through IPO readiness
Context
Mercor is a Series C company at a $10B valuation, scaling from roughly 500 employees, with a large global contractor network alongside a growing full-time workforce.
Nothing is settled yet: what the compensation philosophy should be, how levels map across very different functions, how equity gets granted and explained.

📌 Compensation Architect - Total Rewards (New South Wales)
🏢 Obsidian
📍 New South Wales