People Programs Specialist

Summary

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.The role Mercor is hiring at a pace few companies ever reach. New people start every week across Engineering, Product, Delivery and Operations, and the programs that welcome, develop and keep them need to run with the same precision as the rest of the business.As People Programs Specialist, you'll run Mercor's core employee programs day to day: universal onboarding, manager development and employee experience. You'll be the first face new hires meet, the operator who keeps every cohort on schedule, and the person who turns participant feedback and program data into clear recommendations for People leadership.You'll partner closely with Talent, Strategic Operations, IT, Workplace, Finance and managers across the company. This is a hands-on role for someone who has run People programs before and wants to run them at a company scaling this fast.What you'll do Universal onboarding Run company-wide onboarding cohorts end to end, from pre-start logistics and communication through day one, orientation and 30, 60 and 90 day check-insHost and facilitate onboarding sessions that give every new hire a strong, consistent foundation before their function-specific training startsSend managers a weekly start list with enough lead time to prepare, and coordinate IT, Workplace and Talent so every person is set up on day onePartner with Strategic Operations on the handoff into function-specific onboarding and ongoing upskillingTrack completion, new hire survey results and manager-reported ramp, and report trends and recommended improvements to the Head of PeopleManager development Operate Mercor's manager development program: cohort scheduling, participant communication, facilitator coordination and session logisticsCollect attendance, feedback and outcome data, and prepare program reviews for People leadershipEmployee experience Run perks, recognition and community programs, from day-to-day administration and employee questions to vendor management and spend tracking against budgetKeep program policies clear and current, and communicate them so people actually read themBring forward ideas for new programs, with the cost, the problem they solve and how we'd measure themPeople resources Maintain the People resource hub so employees and managers can find answers without askingWrite and maintain runbooks and employee-facing guides for every program you runUse our ticketing and knowledge base tools, and AI, to reduce repeat questions and manual workWhat we're looking for Proven program experience 3 to 5+ years of hands-on program management in People programs, onboarding, learning and development, employee experience or People operations, ideally at a high-growth technology company [confirm range]You've run a company-wide onboarding program or a comparable recurring program across many teams, and can show how you measured and improved itExperience coordinating vendors, budgets and external facilitatorsOperational excellence Exceptional organization and attention to detail across several programs running at onceAbility to independently own high-volume, time-sensitive processes and resolve problems without escalation, while knowing when a decision belongs with someone elseComfort with data: survey results, completion analytics and spreadsheets, turned into clear findingsCommunication and presence Confident facilitator, comfortable in front of a room of new hires or a group of managersClear, warm writing for employees, managers and outside partnersA people-first presence: you're the person employees trust to point them in the right directionStartup intensity High urgency and ownership of execution, in an environment that moves fast and changes oftenFluent with AI tools and actively looking for ways to make People work faster and more accurateHigh discretion with confidential employee informationNice to haves Experience running onboarding or employee programs at a company scaling quickly past several hundred peopleExperience with Rippling, Notion and a ticketing or service desk toolEvent or offsite planning at scaleWorking knowledge of leave, benefits or employment complianceWhy join Mercor Run the programs that shape how people experience one of the fastest-scaling AI companies in the worldWork directly with Mercor's Head of People on programs that reach every employeeCompetitive base and meaningful equityCompensation $140K – $190KOffers Equity#J-18808-Ljbffr

Job Description

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.The role Mercor is hiring at a pace few companies ever reach. New people start every week across Engineering, Product, Delivery and Operations, and the programs that welcome, develop and keep them need to run with the same precision as the rest of the business.As People Programs Specialist, you'll run Mercor's core employee programs day to day: universal onboarding, manager development and employee experience. You'll be the first face new hires meet, the operator who keeps every cohort on schedule, and the person who turns participant feedback and program data into clear recommendations for People leadership.You'll partner closely with Talent, Strategic Operations, IT, Workplace, Finance and managers across the company. This is a hands-on role for someone who has run People programs before and wants to run them at a company scaling this fast.What you'll do Universal onboarding Run company-wide onboarding cohorts end to end, from pre-start logistics and communication through day one, orientation and 30, 60 and 90 day check-insHost and facilitate onboarding sessions that give every new hire a strong, consistent foundation before their function-specific training startsSend managers a weekly start list with enough lead time to prepare, and coordinate IT, Workplace and Talent so every person is set up on day onePartner with Strategic Operations on the handoff into function-specific onboarding and ongoing upskillingTrack completion, new hire survey results and manager-reported ramp, and report trends and recommended improvements to the Head of PeopleManager development Operate Mercor's manager development program: cohort scheduling, participant communication, facilitator coordination and session logisticsCollect attendance, feedback and outcome data, and prepare program reviews for People leadershipEmployee experience Run perks, recognition and community programs, from day-to-day administration and employee questions to vendor management and spend tracking against budgetKeep program policies clear and current, and communicate them so people actually read themBring forward ideas for new programs, with the cost, the problem they solve and how we'd measure themPeople resources Maintain the People resource hub so employees and managers can find answers without askingWrite and maintain runbooks and employee-facing guides for every program you runUse our ticketing and knowledge base tools, and AI, to reduce repeat questions and manual workWhat we're looking for Proven program experience 3 to 5+ years of hands-on program management in People programs, onboarding, learning and development, employee experience or People operations, ideally at a high-growth technology company [confirm range]You've run a company-wide onboarding program or a comparable recurring program across many teams, and can show how you measured and improved itExperience coordinating vendors, budgets and external facilitatorsOperational excellence Exceptional organization and attention to detail across several programs running at onceAbility to independently own high-volume, time-sensitive processes and resolve problems without escalation, while knowing when a decision belongs with someone elseComfort with data: survey results, completion analytics and spreadsheets, turned into clear findingsCommunication and presence Confident facilitator, comfortable in front of a room of new hires or a group of managersClear, warm writing for employees, managers and outside partnersA people-first presence: you're the person employees trust to point them in the right directionStartup intensity High urgency and ownership of execution, in an environment that moves fast and changes oftenFluent with AI tools and actively looking for ways to make People work faster and more accurateHigh discretion with confidential employee informationNice to haves Experience running onboarding or employee programs at a company scaling quickly past several hundred peopleExperience with Rippling, Notion and a ticketing or service desk toolEvent or offsite planning at scaleWorking knowledge of leave, benefits or employment complianceWhy join Mercor Run the programs that shape how people experience one of the fastest-scaling AI companies in the worldWork directly with Mercor's Head of People on programs that reach every employeeCompetitive base and meaningful equityCompensation $140K – $190KOffers Equity#J-18808-Ljbffr