Commerce Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $98/hr

mercor; India; Remote; INR 10,279,000 - 13,082,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking an Applied Business & Commerce Benchmark Specialist for a remote contract role. The position involves crafting rigorous business questions and grading difficulty to test deep understanding, with a commitment of 10+ hours per week.

Work focuses on designing questions, providing correct answers and plausible distractors, and citing references. Excellent English and graduate-level business acumen are essential.

Qualifications

• PhD, DBA, or doctoral candidate in Business Administration, Management, Marketing, or a closely related field.
• MBA or Master’s degree considered for exceptional depth in a specific subdomain.
• Strong command of graduate-level business strategy, organizational theory, and quantitative methods.
• Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly and concisely.

Responsibilities

• Author original business questions that test deep conceptual understanding, not surface-level recall.
• Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined. All necessary information must be in the problem statement.
• Rate each question's difficulty: Medium (intro undergraduate), Hard (advanced undergraduate), or Expert (post-graduate and above).
• Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible but subtly incorrect alternatives that challenge expert-level solvers.
• Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions with clear, concise reasoning in markdown format.

Skills

Business strategy

Organizational theory

Quantitative methods

Education

PhD/DBA

MBA or Master’s degree considered

Job description

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position: Applied Business & Commerce Benchmark Specialist

Type: Contract

Compensation: $77–$98/hour

Location: Remote

Commitment: 10+ hours/week

Role Responsibilities

• Author original business questions that test deep conceptual understanding, not surface-level recall.


• Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined. All necessary information must be in the problem statement.


• Rate each question's difficulty: Medium (intro undergraduate), Hard (advanced undergraduate), or Expert (post-graduate and above).


• Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible but subtly incorrect alternatives that challenge expert-level solvers.


• Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions with clear, concise reasoning in markdown format.


• Supply 1–5 academic references per question from reputable sources like peer-reviewed journals and university repositories.


• For verification tasks: flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify any edits made.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• PhD , DBA , or doctoral candidate in Business Administration, Management, Marketing, or a closely related field.


• MBA or Master's degree considered for candidates with exceptional depth in a specific subdomain.


• Strong command of graduate-level business strategy, organizational theory, and quantitative methods.


• Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly and concisely.

Preferred

• Industry leadership experience or research publications in business fields is a strong plus.