Event Lead

What You'll Own

• The events strategy and annual calendar across four areas: enterprise and human-data GTM, customer-lab GTM, recruiting events, and internal events.
• The creative POV and quality bar for every event.
• Mercor's own conferences (APEX Summit and beyond, ramping toward ~4 a year) plus presence at key conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, etc.).
• High-signal executive and customer programs: intimate dinners, partner roundtables, and gatherings timed to Mercor's biggest moments.
• Recruiting events — from a university events program to hackathons — that help reach and win elite talent.
• Internal events, from smaller team moments up to company-wide offsites.
• Hands-on execution: working directly with vendors, coordinating across marketing, recruiting, and workplace.
• Targeting and follow-through with GTM, recruiting, and brand partners so events convert into relationships, pipeline, and talent.
• Measurement and repeatable playbooks so each program gets sharper over time.

What We're Looking For

• 6–8 years in events, field marketing, or experiential — ideally for technical, executive, or otherwise discerning audiences.
• Deep event expertise and conviction — strong, defensible opinions on what makes an event land, and the confidence to push back on stakeholders.
• An entrepreneurial executor — you spot where to add leverage and go do it, not an order-taker; high energy, and happy to roll up your sleeves on vendors, details, and run-of-show.
• A structured thinker who turns ambiguity into clear plans and presents them well cross-functionally — across marketing, recruiting, and vendors.
• Steady under ambiguity — you prefer a plan, but you don't break down when there isn't one.
• Polished enough to represent Mercor to founders, lab leaders, and senior executives.

Nice to Haves

• Experience with events in AI, human data, or the Bay Area startup scene.
• Design taste — you can pick a menu, shape the aesthetic, and give sharp feedback on vendor graphics.
• A client-facing, outgoing personality — comfortable being a presence at the event itself.
• A network in the AI ecosystem — labs, research, founders.
• Experience standing 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