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Business Strategy PhD - Assessment Expert
@ Mercor
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Mercor is hiring an Applied Business & Commerce Benchmark Specialist on a remote contract at $77–$98 per hour, for 10+ hours a week. The role writes and reviews graduate-level business questions for leading AI research labs, with each question rated by difficulty and paired with a correct answer and plausible distractors.
Pay:
$77–$98 an hour
Responsibilities:
- Author original business questions testing deep conceptual understanding
- Rate question difficulty from Medium to Expert
- Write 1 correct answer and 9 plausible distractors per question
- Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions in markdown
- Supply 1–5 academic references per question
Requirements summary:
- PhD, DBA, or doctoral candidate in business or related field
- MBA or Master's for exceptional subdomain depth
- Graduate-level business strategy and quantitative methods
- Excellent written English
- Industry leadership or publications a plus
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Research & science |
| Hours per week | 10 |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Home |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Education | Doctorate (required), Master’s degree (preferred) |
| Fields of study | Business Administration, Management, Marketing |
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Mercor
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We connect human expertise with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models.
Full company description
Mercor is defining the future of work. We connect human expertise with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models.
- LinkedIn followers
- 654,507
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 5,250
- Reported office locations
- San Francisco, California 94105, US
- Business categories
- Employment
- Software
- Recruiting
- Data Collection and Labeling
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Machine Learning
- Other recorded names
- Mercor
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- Yes
- Reported total investment
- 483,600,000
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.
Mercor is defining the future of work. We connect human expertise with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software Development |
| Company size | 51-200 employees |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 2023 |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 1,626 |
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About the job
Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.
Position: Applied Business & Commerce Benchmark Specialist
Type: Contract
Compensation: $77–$98/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: 10+ hours/week
Role Responsibilities
- Author original business questions that test deep conceptual understanding, not surface-level recall.
- Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined. All necessary information must be in the problem statement.
- Rate each question's difficulty: Medium (intro undergraduate), Hard (advanced undergraduate), or Expert (post-graduate and above).
- Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible but subtly incorrect alternatives that challenge expert-level solvers.
- Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions with clear, concise reasoning in markdown format.
- Supply 1–5 academic references per question from reputable sources like peer-reviewed journals and university repositories.
- For verification tasks: flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify any edits made.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- PhD, DBA, or doctoral candidate in Business Administration, Management, Marketing, or a closely related field.
- MBA or Master's degree considered for candidates with exceptional depth in a specific subdomain.
- Strong command of graduate-level business strategy, organizational theory, and quantitative methods.
- Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly and concisely.
Preferred
- Industry leadership experience or research publications in business fields is a strong plus.
Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
- Upload resume
- AI interview based on your resume
- Submit form
Resources & Support
- For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
- For any help or support, reach out to: [email protected]
PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.
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