Tech Stack
Solid badges = required, outlined = preferred
Responsibilities
- Design marketplace mechanisms including pricing, incentives, and allocation rules to balance supply and demand.
- Causally measure marketplace health metrics such as liquidity, match quality, fill rate, time-to-hire, and earnings.
- Conduct A/B and marketplace/switchback experiments to evaluate interventions under interference.
- Develop forecasts and models for supply, demand, and capacity across the talent network.
- Frame economic objectives for ranking, matching, and routing, collaborating with ML and engineering teams.
Soft Skills
MicroeconomicsMarket DesignCausal InferenceExperimentationWritten CommunicationStakeholder ManagementMarketplacesPricingRankingMatching
Benefits
- Dental
- Equity
- Gym/Wellness
- Health Insurance
- Mental Health
- Relocation Assistance
- Vision
Culture
Fast-PacedCross-Functional Teams
Requirements
Required: Advanced degree (PhD or Master's) in Economics or a related quantitative field, or equivalent applied experience
Regions: Us
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About mercor
Industry: ai
Size: large
Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion, focused on organizing human intelligence to power the AI economy by connecting experts with leading AI labs and enterprises for model training.
View company profile →Compensation
Equity: Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
Bonus: Bi-annual performance bonus structure
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