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Mercor

G&A Recruiter

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Own full-cycle G&A recruiting and build hiring operations as the first dedicated recruiter at Mercor.

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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

As a G&A Recruiter at Mercor, you’ll own full-cycle hiring for critical roles across a variety of Finance, Legal, Marketing and People. You would be Mercor's first dedicated G&A recruiter, partnering with senior leadership and C-Suites to not only make critical hires for the business, but to lay the foundation for how G&A recruiting will operate at Mercor moving forward.

What You’ll Do

  • Own full-cycle recruiting (sourcing → close) across a variety of organizations such as marketing, finance, legal and people ops

  • Partner directly with C-Suite Leadership 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)

  • Coach hiring managers and interviewers on structured interviewing, leveling, and decision hygiene

  • 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

  • Represent Mercor externally, you’ll be a face of the brand for an exceptionally competitive talent market

  • Collaborate on dashboards, metrics, and process automation within Ashby and other recruiting systems

  • Refinement of technical recruiting motion as the Ops org shifts to hire more frequently from technical backgrounds

What We’re Looking For

  • 5+ years experience with full-cycle recruiting across IC and leadership roles

  • Proven success hiring across a range of roles and departments, with the ability to context switch across departments with ease

  • Ability to build and scale hiring systems, identify key metrics, and make data-driven decisions

  • Strong communication skills; able to work efficiently with General Managers, Strategic Project Leads and Mercor’s President

  • Confident representing the Mercor brand to top candidates

  • Familiarity with Ashby or ability to quickly adopt new tools and systems

Nice to Haves

  • Experience as a founding recruiter or early-stage startup builder

  • Interest in the human data / AGI space

  • Prior experience leveraging Ashby as an ATS

Ideal Qualities

  • Agility / Adaptability - ability to move fast, pivot with business shifts, and maintain best-in-class outcomes

  • Operational Rigor - ability to bring order to an unstructured environment

  • Growth Mindset - You don’t need to be an expert on AI, but you do need to have a strong desire to learn and continue learning in a rapidly evolving, frontier industry

  • Commitment to the Outcome - Ownership mentality; will hold themselves accountable to an extremely high standard of work

  • Love for the Craft - we are building a zero to one motion; this hire will bring a low ego attitude to the table with a genuine love for building a best-in-class talent acquisition organization

Benefits

  • $15K relocation bonus (for moving to the Bay Area)

  • $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

  • 401(k) with company match

How we rate this

G&A Recruiter at Mercor rates 20 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Open the description and count.

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Full Cycle RecruitingTalent AcquisitionExecutive HiringSourcingAshby

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  2. Tell me about a project where talent acquisition was part of your work. What did you do?
  3. Tell me about a project where executive hiring was part of your work. What did you do?
  4. Tell me about a project where sourcing was part of your work. What did you do?
  5. Walk me through how you've used Ashby in your day-to-day work.

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