Mercor
Technical Recruiter
New York City
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About the role
- We're looking for an NYC-based talent hire to join us five days a week at our new office in the heart of the Financial District.
- This is a true 0→1 motion and an opportunity to lay the foundation for the future of recruiting at Mercor.
Responsibilities
- Own full-cycle recruiting (sourcing → close) across a variety of organizations (such as marketing, finance, people ops, with a prominent focus on operations)
- Partner with b to map out needs and implement continual process improvements
- Build top-of-funnel using creative outbound, talent intelligence, and Mercor's own product (structured screens, automated work samples, and calibrated rubrics)
- Operationalize hiring systems: track and optimize key funnel metrics (pass-through rates, time-in-stage, source yield)
- Champion speed and quality: drive SLAs for same-day debriefs, fast offers, and strong candidate experience
- Build brand: campaigns, referrals, and events that attract top engineers and operators.
- Collaborate on dashboards, metrics, and process automation within Ashby and other recruiting systems.
- Proven ability to build and scale hiring systems, identify key metrics, and make data-driven decisions
Requirements
- Experience with full-cycle recruiting across IC and leadership roles
- Familiarity with a range of roles, emphasis on GTM, Strategy, Operations, ideally with some mastery of technical roles such as SWEs or FDEs
- Familiarity with Ashby or ability to quickly adopt new tools and systems
- Experience as a founding recruiter or early-stage startup builder
- Operational Rigor. ability to bring order to an unstructured environment
- Technical recruiting expertise
Benefits
- $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
- $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.
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