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title: 'Executive Assistant at Mercor'
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# Executive Assistant at Mercor

- **Company:** Mercor
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $120k–$160k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-05-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mercor/9084be40-8c55-43f3-ae64-59524de8ad11/application

**Skills:** Calendar Management, Travel Coordination, Expense Management, Event Planning, Executive Communications

> Support senior Enterprise leaders by managing complex calendars, coordinating travel and logistics, and handling executive communications. The role requires high discretion, organizational skills, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, in-office environment.

## Job description

## About Mercor

Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. We're a leading AI data company, building the layer between human expertise and frontier models. Millions of domain experts on the platform are paid over $4 million per day to train frontier AI models. Mercor's APEX benchmark family measures AI's real-world impact on professional work. Mercor Enterprise brings this same infrastructure to Fortune 500 companies: helping companies capture how their best people actually work, translating that expertise directly back into agents.

Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement. Achieving this requires an ambitious, fast-paced and deeply committed team. You’ll work alongside researchers, operators, and AI companies at the forefront of shaping the systems that are redefining society. Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion. We work in-person five days a week in our San Francisco, NYC, or London offices.

## About the Role

At Mercor, we are seeking an accomplished Executive Assistant to support our senior Enterprise leaders. This role requires a seasoned professional who thrives in a dynamic, high-performance environment and excels at managing complex tasks with discretion, speed, and attention to detail.

## What You’ll Do

Executive Calendar & Scheduling

- Own complex, high-stakes calendaring for senior Enterprise leaders across time zones and stakeholders.
- Coordinate with counterpart EAs at client organizations to confirm meetings quickly and professionally.
- Proactively identify conflicts, protect focus time, and adjust priorities as plans shift.

Travel & Logistics Management

- Plan and book domestic and international travel, itineraries, and last-mile logistics.
- Handle expense coordination and post-travel cleanup to ensure team efficiency.
- Troubleshoot issues quickly when flights, hotels, or schedules change.

Client & Team Event Coordination

- Support client dinners, offsites, and team-building events from planning through execution.
- Manage invitations, communications, and strict timelines with keen attention to detail.
- Maintain a high-polish external presence when interacting with clients and partners.

Executive Communication & Special Projects

- Draft and manage executive correspondence and follow-ups with high judgment and confidentiality.
- Partner on special projects requiring organization, rapid learning, and precise execution.

Office Presence & Coverage

- Be present in our San Francisco office to provide on-the-ground support for leadership needs.
- Step in to cover for other assistants or operations team members when bandwidth is tight.

## What We’re Looking For

- 5+ years of Executive Assistant experience supporting C-suite, Partner, or MD-level leaders in consulting, banking, VC/PE, or top-tier tech.
- Demonstrated excellence managing complex calendaring and multi-party scheduling across time zones.
- High polish with strong external communication; comfortable working with senior stakeholders and client executive assistants.
- Exceptional organization and attention to detail.
- Calm, low-ego, service-oriented.
- Comfortable with long hours.
- Track record of longevity in prior roles and strong references from executives.
- Based in San Francisco and prepared to be in-office Monday through Friday.

## Benefits

- Bi-annual performance bonus structure
- Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
- Up to $15k Relocation bonus
- $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)
- $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
- Free Equinox membership
- $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
- $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
- Health, Dental, Vision insurance

## About Mercor

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Mercor organizes human intelligence to power the AI economy by connecting domain experts with frontier AI labs and enterprises for model training, evaluation, and deployment.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (with offices in New York City and London)
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Brendan Foody & Adarsh Hiremath (Co-founders & Co-CEOs)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: AI Data & Infrastructure, Human-in-the-Loop AI, Enterprise AI
- Target customers: Frontier AI labs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.), Fortune 500 enterprises deploying AI in production, and domain experts seeking high-value AI work
- Mission: Organizing human intelligence to power the AI economy — building the layer between human expertise and frontier models.

## Products & Services
- **Mercor Platform**: A global network of millions of domain experts across 300+ professional fields, paid over $3 million per day to train frontier AI models. Experts are found and vetted using dynamic, role-specific AI interviews.
- **APEX Benchmark**: A benchmark family that measures AI's real-world impact on professional work, setting a standard for whether AI can perform economically valuable work.
- **Mercor Enterprise**: Brings Mercor's expert network and evaluation infrastructure to Fortune 500 companies, deploying custom AI agents, staffing teams with vetted domain experts, and helping organizations encode their own knowledge into AI systems.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $10 billion valuation (as of Series C)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — $350 million Series C (recently raised); company is profitable
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly named in provided sources, but the company works with leading AI labs and Fortune 500 enterprises
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Named to Bloomberg's "2026 24 AI Startups to Watch"
  - Forbes AI 50 (2025)
  - Forbes Cloud 100 (2025)
  - LinkedIn Top Startup (2025)
  - Described as "the fastest-growing company in the world"
  - Tens of thousands of skilled professionals earning an average of more than $95/hour on the platform

## Competitive Advantages
- **Massive, vetted expert network**: Millions of domain experts across 300+ fields, found and vetted via AI-driven interviews — a hard-to-replicate moat.
- **Direct frontier model exposure**: Every team works directly with frontier models, training them and building around them — most companies haven't imagined this level of integration.
- **Profitability at scale**: Profitable at Series C with a $10B valuation, indicating strong unit economics.
- **End-to-end AI infrastructure**: From expert sourcing and vetting to model evaluation (APEX) to enterprise deployment — a vertically integrated stack.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the expert network**: Continuing to onboard millions of domain experts globally to meet the insatiable demand for high-quality human training data.
- **Enterprise AI deployment**: Expanding Mercor Enterprise to help Fortune 500 companies encode organizational knowledge into AI systems and deploy custom agents.
- **Benchmarking AI's economic impact**: Growing the APEX benchmark as the standard for measuring whether AI can perform economically valuable work.
- **Preparing for AGI**: The company's founding thesis is about answering what role humans will play in the economy as AGI approaches.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "Built for people who thrive in high-velocity environments." Values include Intensity, Simplicity, User Obsession, High Standards, Can-Do Attitude, and Time Travelers (thinking ahead).
- **Work model**: In-person collaboration from offices in San Francisco, New York City, and London. No remote option — the company believes in-person collaboration helps move faster and solve harder problems.
- **Engineering culture**: Direct exposure to frontier AI research, labs, and startups. Every team works with frontier models daily. Described as "the fastest-growing company in the world."
- **Compensation**: Generous equity grants, competitive salaries (ranges from $100K–$500K depending on role), and a "proximity bonus" (generous annual housing support).
- **Benefits**: 
  - Unlimited paid vacation and sick days
  - Free Equinox membership (premium fitness access)
  - Monthly wellness stipend and free mental health services
  - Monthly food stipend
  - 401k with employer match
  - Parental leave for both birthing and non-birthing parents
- **Team**: "A team of ambitious, diverse people who want to work on what matters most." Open roles across Engineering (31 roles), Operations (15 roles), Enterprise (5 roles), Finance (4 roles), and more.

## Sources
1. [mercor.com](https://www.mercor.com/)
2. [mercor.com/careers](https://www.mercor.com/careers/)
3. [mercor.com/mission](https://www.mercor.com/mission/)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/mercor](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mercor)
5. [linkedin.com/company/mercor-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/mercor-ai)

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