Event Lead

Responsibilities

• The events strategy and annual calendar across four areas: enterprise and human-data GTM, customer/lab GTM, recruiting, and internal.
• The creative point of view and quality bar for every event — the difference between a forgettable dinner and the room people clear their calendar for.
• Our own conferences, plus Mercor's presence at the ones that matter (NeurIPS, ICML, and the like).
• High-signal executive and customer programs: intimate dinners, partner roundtables, and gatherings timed to our biggest moments.
• Recruiting events, from a university program to hackathons, that help us reach and win elite talent.
• Internal events, from team moments up to company-wide offsites.
• Hands-on execution: managing vendors, coordinating across marketing, recruiting, and workplace, and keeping every detail on track.
• Follow-through with GTM and recruiting partners, so events produce relationships, pipeline, and talent — not just attendance.
• Measurement and repeatable playbooks, so every program gets sharper over time.

Requirements

• 6–8 years in events, field marketing, or experiential — ideally for technical, executive, or otherwise discerning audiences.
• Deep expertise and conviction: strong, defensible opinions on what makes an event land, and the confidence to push back on stakeholders.
• An entrepreneurial executor who finds the leverage and goes after it — not an order-taker. High energy, hands-on with vendors, details, and run-of-show.
• A structured thinker who turns ambiguity into clear plans and presents them well across marketing, recruiting, and vendors.
• Steady under ambiguity: you prefer a plan, but you don't stall without one.
• Polished enough to represent Mercor to founders, lab leaders, and senior executives.

Nice to have

• Events experience in AI, human data, or the Bay Area startup scene.
• Design taste: you can shape an aesthetic, pick a menu, and give sharp feedback on vendor work.
• A client-facing, outgoing presence — comfortable in the room, not just behind it.
• A network in the AI ecosystem: labs, researchers, founders.
• You've stood up an owned event or program from scratch.

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
• Free Equinox membership
• $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
• $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
• Health, Dental, Vision insurance