Data Privacy Reviewer - Fully Remote

Mercor; New York (NY); Remote; USD 34,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is hiring contract-based Reviewers for Project Sisyphus, a PII anonymization program. You will review writer outputs across business documents and structured records to confirm what is personal data and group related entities.

Your job is to catch what was missed and not send back correct work. You'll work asynchronously with a distributed team, applying current guidelines that update several times a week and providing precise feedback so writers can fix issues in one pass.

Qualifications

• Prior experience in QA, editorial review, or compliance review.
• Sharp eye for detail in long, repetitive material.
• Able to provide clear, actionable feedback.
• Comfort with changing guidelines and frequent updates.
• Able to work asynchronously with a distributed team.
• Experience with post-reading roles like copy-editing or de-identification.

Responsibilities

• Review tasks against guidelines and approve or request edits.
• Identify missed PII and incorrect entity groupings.
• Provide specific feedback to enable one-pass corrections.
• Keep up with guideline updates and apply current version.
• Communicate ambiguities through project channels.

Skills

Quality assurance

Editorial review

Attention to detail

Clear written feedback

Guideline updates

Remote collaboration

Tools

Data annotation tools

CRM exports familiarity

Job description

About the Role

We're hiring Reviewers on a contract basis for Project Sisyphus, a PII anonymization program. Writers work through business documents and structured records (CRM exports, email, tickets, chat logs, accounting data) confirming what is and isn't personal information and grouping related entities. You review that work before it ships. The job is catching what the writer missed, and equally, not sending back work that was right.

We are working to build a lasting team - this project is an internal one, and so will be running long into the future. We want reviewers that we can build lasting teams and structures around

What You'll Do

• Review completed tasks against the current guidelines and decide, for each, whether it is ready to approve or needs edits
• Catch missed PII, wrong classifications, and incorrect entity groupings across tasks with dozens to hundreds of individual decisions
• Send work back only for real defects, with feedback specific enough that the writer can fix it in one pass
• Keep up with guideline updates that land several times a week and apply the version in force on the day you review
• Work asynchronously with a distributed team, and raise ambiguous cases in the project channel rather than guessing

What We're Looking For

• Prior experience in quality assurance, editorial review, compliance review, or another role where your judgment was the last check before delivery
• A sharp eye for detail across long, repetitive material, without drifting toward either rubber-stamping or over-flagging
• Clear, direct written feedback
• Comfort being measured: the review seat is held on accuracy, audited regularly, and can be lost and re-earned
• Comfort with rules that change frequently and a habit of checking the current guideline before relying on memory
• Reliable internet connection and a quiet, focused workspace
• Experience in post-reading jobs such as copy-editing, paralegals, or medical de-identifiers

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with PII, privacy, or data-protection concepts (what counts as an identifier, direct versus indirect identification)
• Experience with data annotation, labeling review, or evaluation workflows
• Experience reading structured business data such as CRM, ticketing, email, or accounting exports

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.