Mercor
Strategic Projects Lead, Deeptune
New York City · Mid
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~45% per draw at Level III). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$17,093 more — $137,093 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $137,093 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Operations Research Analysts" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Operations Research Analysts (15-2031) · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- You'll face ambiguous problems and are expected to solve them in ways that scale across the org.
- Your work will directly shape frontier models and how they're deployed.
- If you apply through this link, we'll evaluate you for the role that best fits your level of experience.
Responsibilities
- Own delivery end-to-end: You're accountable for data delivery end-to-end, including deadlines, throughput, and quality
- Build and lead contributor teams: Recruit, train, and manage a distributed workforce
- Partner cross-functionally: Work closely with our engineers to scope technical requirements, flag blockers, and ship improvements to our pipeline infrastructure
- Drive continuous improvement: Identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and quality gaps, and then build the solution.s
- Build and lead contributor teams: Recruit, train, and manage a distributed workforce; turn new hires into high performers.
- You'd rather build a system than do the same task twice.
- You are motivated by ownership, impact, and building frontier tech.
- You are excited to build in person, 5 days a week, from our office at One World Trade.
Requirements
- 2+ Years of experience: Background in consulting, finance, startups, or other operationally intense environments.
- proven track record of managing complex projects.
Skills
- Strong analytical and communication abilities; proven track record of managing complex projects.
- Customer-Facing Experience: Comfortable working directly with high-profile clients.
- Mindset: Excited by "gritty" process optimization and large-scale execution.
- SPLs generate $10M+ in project revenue annually.
- SPLs begin as individual contributors, running projects end-to-end.
- High performers may advance to Senior SPL (SSPL) roles, managing multiple projects and teams of SPLs.
- Base cash comp from $120K-$150k for SPL, and up to $200k for an SSPL
- Bi-annual performance bonus structure
- Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
- $15K relocation bonus (for moving to the New York metropolitan area)
- $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)
- $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
Compensation
- Bi-annual performance bonus structure
Benefits
- Solve ambiguous problems: When you find a broken or inefficient process, you will build a scalable solution that the whole org will benefit from
- $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
- $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
- Health, Dental, Vision insurance
Company info
- 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.
- We are hiring for Strategic Projects Associates, Strategic Projects Leads, and Senior Strategic Projects Leads. If you apply through this link, we'll evaluate you for the role that best fits your level of experience.
- We are hiring for Strategic Projects Associates, Strategic Projects Leads, and Senior Strategic Projects Leads.
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