Total Rewards & Equity Architect

Mercor; Greater London; Remote; GBP 51,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor's People team is building its compensation and equity foundation from scratch. We are seeking Total Rewards practitioners with depth in compensation design and/or equity program management.

You'll design salary bands, leveling frameworks, and grant structures for a rapidly growing, global contractor network and full-time workforce. If you have built compensation philosophy, benchmarked against peers, and explained equity value to candidates and employees, we'd like to hear from you.

Qualifications

• 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 and defended to executives.
• Designed incentive structures that were simple, credible, and behavior-changing.

Responsibilities

• Define compensation philosophy and benchmarking methodologies.
• Manage equity programs including grants, vesting structures, and 409A considerations.
• Communicate equity value clearly to candidates and employees.
• Scale compensation design for global or contractor workforce.

Skills

Compensation design

Equity program mgmt

Total Rewards

Benchmarking

Job description

Mercor's People team is building its compensation and equity foundation from scratch. We are seeking Total Rewards practitioners with depth in compensation design and/or equity program management.

You'll design salary bands, leveling frameworks, and grant structures for a rapidly growing, global contractor network and full-time workforce. If you have built compensation philosophy, benchmarked against peers, and explained equity value to candidates and employees, we'd like to hear from you.