--- title: 'People Programs Specialist at Mercor' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/people-programs-specialist-mercor-mercor-hq-5p0vgsxa98gn' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-17' --- # People Programs Specialist at Mercor - **Company:** Mercor - **Location:** Mercor HQ, 181 Fremont Street - **Compensation:** $140k–$190k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-10-07 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mercor/692e04b2-231f-46c5-abd5-135cf7726ccc ## 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. ## The role Mercor is hiring at a pace few companies ever reach. New people start every week across Engineering, Product, Delivery and Operations, and the programs that welcome, develop and keep them need to run with the same precision as the rest of the business. As People Programs Specialist, you'll run Mercor's core employee programs day to day: universal onboarding, manager development and employee experience. You'll be the first face new hires meet, the operator who keeps every cohort on schedule, and the person who turns participant feedback and program data into clear recommendations for People leadership. You'll partner closely with Talent, Strategic Operations, IT, Workplace, Finance and managers across the company. This is a hands-on role for someone who has run People programs before and wants to run them at a company scaling this fast. ## What you'll do Universal onboarding - Run company-wide onboarding cohorts end to end, from pre-start logistics and communication through day one, orientation and 30, 60 and 90 day check-ins - Host and facilitate onboarding sessions that give every new hire a strong, consistent foundation before their function-specific training starts - Send managers a weekly start list with enough lead time to prepare, and coordinate IT, Workplace and Talent so every person is set up on day one - Partner with Strategic Operations on the handoff into function-specific onboarding and ongoing upskilling - Track completion, new hire survey results and manager-reported ramp, and report trends and recommended improvements to the Head of People Manager development - Operate Mercor's manager development program: cohort scheduling, participant communication, facilitator coordination and session logistics - Collect attendance, feedback and outcome data, and prepare program reviews for People leadership Employee experience - Run perks, recognition and community programs, from day-to-day administration and employee questions to vendor management and spend tracking against budget - Keep program policies clear and current, and communicate them so people actually read them - Bring forward ideas for new programs, with the cost, the problem they solve and how we'd measure them People resources - Maintain the People resource hub so employees and managers can find answers without asking - Write and maintain runbooks and employee-facing guides for every program you run - Use our ticketing and knowledge base tools, and AI, to reduce repeat questions and manual work ## What we're looking for Proven program experience - 3 to 5+ years of hands-on program management in People programs, onboarding, learning and development, employee experience or People operations, ideally at a high-growth technology company - You've run a company-wide onboarding program or a comparable recurring program across many teams, and can show how you measured and improved it - Experience coordinating vendors, budgets and external facilitators Operational excellence - Exceptional organization and attention to detail across several programs running at once - Ability to independently own high-volume, time-sensitive processes and resolve problems without escalation, while knowing when a decision belongs with someone else - Comfort with data: survey results, completion analytics and spreadsheets, turned into clear findings Communication and presence - Confident facilitator, comfortable in front of a room of new hires or a group of managers - Clear, warm writing for employees, managers and outside partners - A people-first presence: you're the person employees trust to point them in the right direction Startup intensity - High urgency and ownership of execution, in an environment that moves fast and changes often - Fluent with AI tools and actively looking for ways to make People work faster and more accurate - High discretion with confidential employee information Nice to haves - Experience running onboarding or employee programs at a company scaling quickly past several hundred people - Experience with Rippling, Notion and a ticketing or service desk tool - Event or offsite planning at scale - Working knowledge of leave, benefits or employment compliance ## Why join Mercor - Run the programs that shape how people experience one of the fastest-scaling AI companies in the world - Work directly with Mercor's Head of People on programs that reach every employee - Competitive base and meaningful equity ## 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. 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