Total Rewards & Equity Program Architect

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 69,000 - 276,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor's People team is shaping compensation and equity from the ground up for a growing, global workforce. We are seeking Total Rewards practitioners who can lead both compensation design and equity program management.

You'll design salary bands, leveling, and incentive structures, run annual compensation cycles, benchmark against peers, and articulate equity value to candidates and employees. Experience with 409A and plan governance is a plus as Mercor scales from a Series C company.

Qualifications

• Experience designing compensation bands, leveling frameworks, and job architecture.
• Led an annual compensation cycle: merit, promotions, bonus, equity refresh.
• Benchmarked against peers and defended to executives.
• Designed simple, credible incentive structures.
• Built equity models and communicated value to employees.

Responsibilities

• Design salary bands, leveling frameworks, and job architecture.
• Own annual compensation cycle: merit, promotions, bonuses, equity refresh.
• Benchmark against peers and defend to executives.
• Design simple, credible incentive structures.
• Explain equity value to candidates and employees.
• Build models to scale compensation and equity for a global contractor network.

Skills

Compensation design

Equity program management

Total Rewards

Benchmarking

Pay equity

Executive compensation

Job description

Mercor's People team is shaping compensation and equity from the ground up for a growing, global workforce. We are seeking Total Rewards practitioners who can lead both compensation design and equity program management.

You'll design salary bands, leveling, and incentive structures, run annual compensation cycles, benchmark against peers, and articulate equity value to candidates and employees. Experience with 409A and plan governance is a plus as Mercor scales from a Series C company.