Mercor
Economist, Marketplace
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 21 days ago
PythonSQLMachine LearningData ScienceA/B TestingForecastingMechanical DesignCommunication
About the role
- As an Economist on the Marketplace team, you will bring economic theory and rigorous empirical methods to the core decision systems that govern how talent and opportunities meet on Mercor.
- You'll study and shape marketplace dynamics - matching efficiency, pricing, incentives, liquidity, and supply/demand balance - and turn those insights into mechanisms and metrics that directly affect fill rate, hiring speed, earnings, and revenue.
- This is a high-impact, applied role at the intersection of economics, data science, and engineering.
Responsibilities
- We partner with leading AI labs and enterprises to provide the human intelligence essential to AI development.
- Design pricing and incentive mechanisms that improve liquidity without sacrificing quality or margin
- Build supply/demand forecasts that drive capacity planning and sourcing decisions
- Define the objective functions and guardrail metrics the marketplace optimizes toward
- You'll help design the incentive structures and allocation mechanisms of a rapidly scaling two-sided labor market, and partner closely with ML, product, and engineering to put them into production.
- Marketplace mechanism design: pricing, incentives, and allocation rules that balance supply and demand
Requirements
- Advanced degree (PhD or Master's) in Economics or a related quantitative field, or equivalent applied experience
- Ability to translate economic theory into mechanisms and metrics that ship in a live product
Nice to have
- Experience with marketplaces, pricing, ranking/matching, or two-sided platforms (labor, ads, ridesharing, etc.)
- Familiarity with experimentation under interference (network or marketplace experiments)
- Experience partnering with ML and engineering teams to productionize models or mechanisms
- Mercor is a two-sided marketplace at its core.
- Your work will shape fundamental marketplace outcomes across quality, speed, earnings, and revenue.
- Proficiency with data and code (SQL plus Python or R) to run analyses end-to-end on real data
Compensation
- Bi-annual performance bonus structure
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
- $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
- $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
- Health, Dental, Vision insurance
- Causal measurement of marketplace health - liquidity, match quality, fill rate, time-to-hire, and earnings
Company info
- by sharing knowledge, experience, and context that can't be captured in code alone.
- Today, more than 30,000 experts in our network collectively earn over $3 million a day.
- 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.
- Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy.
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