Chief of Staff: GTM at Mercor in San Francisco
- Company: Mercor
- Location: San Francisco
- Posted: Sep 20, 2026
- Type: Full-time
- Salary: $180K – $230K base, offers equity
- Experience: 4+ years
Overview
Application Mercor is looking for a Chief of Staff to the Head of Engagement Management to drive high-priority initiatives across sales, partnerships, marketing, and hiring. This is a high-ownership role for someone who can move quickly from strategy to execution, helping to drive the strategic dire…
Job description
- Application
- Mercor is looking for a Chief of Staff to the Head of Engagement Management to drive high-priority initiatives across sales, partnerships, marketing, and hiring. This is a high-ownership role for someone who can move quickly from strategy to execution, helping to drive the strategic direction of Mercor's rapidly expanding GTM efforts.
Responsibilities
- Sales Strategy: Develop and execute strategic initiatives to grow Mercor’s business across frontier labs, AI companies, and enterprises.
- Partnerships: Activate partnerships with RL-as-a-service companies and partners to turn relationships into joint GTM and revenue opportunities.
- Cross-Functional Incubation: Build 0→1 initiatives across product marketing, events marketing, and customer marketing, establishing the playbook before scaling dedicated teams.
- Strategic Hiring: Identify organizational gaps and lead recruiting for high-priority roles across the Engagement Management organization.
- Special Projects: Own the highest-leverage problems facing the organization, from strategy through execution.
Requirements
- 3-4 years of experience in a Chief of Staff/Exec Ops role supporting a rapidly scaling business
- Exceptional strategic thinking and execution
- Strong commercial instincts and interest in AI
- Ability to operate across sales, partnerships, marketing, and recruiting
- High ownership, low ego, and comfort operating in ambiguity
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
Skills
Required
- Strategic thinking
- Execution
- Commercial instincts
- High ownership
- Low ego
- Comfort with ambiguity
- Communication
- Relationship-building
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
- Base $180K – $230K • Offers Equity
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.