Talent Intelligence & Analytics Manager

Mercors mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. Were 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. Mercors APEX benchmark family measures AIs 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. Youll 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.

As a Talent Intelligence & Analytics Manager at Mercor youll be the person who knows the AI talent market better than anyone else on the team: where competitors are finding talent how compensation is trending and what it actually takes to win a candidate in this market. Youll build the data and research layer underneath all of Mercors recruiting - GTM Applied AI Operations and beyond - turning market signal and funnel data into decisions our recruiters and leadership can act on.

• Track the competitive AI talent landscape: where frontier labs Mag 7 companies and direct competitors are sourcing talent how their teams are structured and how theyre positioning offers

• Analyze Mercors own hiring funnel: pass-through rates time-in-stage source yield and quality of hire and turn that into recommendations recruiters and leadership can act on

• Build dashboards and reporting that give recruiting leadership a real-time read on pipeline health and hiring capacity

• Act as the analytics expert for Talent Acquisition informing strategic decision making across the recruiting funnel

• Partner with business leadership as well as recruiters across GTM Applied AI and Operations to answer their specific market and pipeline questions

• Run research projects on talent-market trends: where the best AI talent is coming from how compensation structures are evolving and whats changing in how competitors hire

• Build and maintain compensation benchmarking across roles and markets keeping Mercors offers competitive as the AI talent market shifts

• Present findings directly to recruiting and company leadership translating data into a clear point of view

• 5 years of experience in people analytics talent intelligence or recruiting analytics ideally at a high-growth tech or AI company

• Strong SQL and data modeling skills; comfort building dashboards in tools like Hex Looker or Tableau

• A genuine interest in the AI talent market: whos hiring where theyre finding people how comp is trending and what that means for Mercors competitiveness

• Ability to turn messy data into a clear narrative and a clear recommendation not just a report

• Strong communication skills; able to present data-backed points of view to recruiters and leadership with confidence

• High motor outcome-oriented approach; Mercor is in hypergrowth and this roles insights directly shape hiring decisions across the company

• Familiarity with Ashby or ability to quickly adopt new tools and systems

• Experience in a strategy market research or competitive intelligence role prior to moving into talent/people analytics

• Interest in the human data / AGI space

• Experience building compensation benchmarking models or market-pay studies

• Comfort supporting multiple recruiting functions (GTM Applied AI Operations) at once

• Agility / Adaptability - ability to move fast pivot with business shifts and maintain best-in-class outcomes

• Operational Rigor - ability to bring order to an unstructured environment

• Growth Mindset - You dont need to be an expert on AI but you do need a strong desire to learn in a rapidly evolving frontier industry

• Commitment to the Outcome - Ownership mentality; will hold yourself accountable to an extremely high standard of work

• Love for the Craft - genuine enthusiasm for building a best-in-class talent function

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