Equity & Total Rewards Architect

Mercor; New York (NY); Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a Total Rewards practitioner to help build compensation design and equity programs from the ground up. You will shape salary bands, leveling, and job architecture while owning cycles for merit, promotions, bonuses, and equity refresh.

You will also design incentive structures, benchmark against peers, and develop transparent pay equity practices to guide executive decisions. Experience with global contractor workforces is a plus.

Qualifications

• Experience designing salary bands, leveling frameworks, and job architecture.
• Led annual compensation cycles including merit, promotion decisions, bonus programs, equity refresh.
• Defended compensation decisions to executive leadership with benchmarking data.
• Designed simple, credible incentive structures that influenced behavior.

Responsibilities

• Develop compensation philosophy and benchmarking methodologies.
• Scale compensation and equity programs for a global contractor network and full-time workforce.
• Partner with People team to map levels and equity structures across functions.

Skills

Compensation design

Equity program management

Total Rewards

Benchmarking

Pay equity & transparency

Job description

Mercor is seeking a Total Rewards practitioner to help build compensation design and equity programs from the ground up. You will shape salary bands, leveling, and job architecture while owning cycles for merit, promotions, bonuses, and equity refresh.

You will also design incentive structures, benchmark against peers, and develop transparent pay equity practices to guide executive decisions. Experience with global contractor workforces is a plus.