Corporate Finance Senior / Associate

Mercor

Job details

  • ONSITE
  • FULL_TIME
  • Mercor HQ
  • United States
  • Verified 2026-11-10
  • Salary: USD 175,000–230,000/yr
  • Source: Mercor public ASHBY source

Original job description

About Mercor

Mercor’s mission is to organize human intelligence for the AI economy. We build the infrastructure that enables frontier AI labs and enterprises to train, evaluate, and improve AI on real-world professional work. More than five million experts have joined our network, and we pay out over $5 million daily for their knowledge and expertise.

We built our training and evaluation infrastructure alongside the world’s leading AI labs. Now, we’re bringing those capabilities to enterprises across industries, enabling them to train, evaluate, and improve AI using their own expertise and standards. Our APEX benchmarks measure how AI performs on economically valuable work, while our enterprise evaluations and post-training capabilities turn those insights into measurable improvements across real-world workflows.

Our work sits at the intersection of frontier AI, human expertise, and real-world application. We’re solving problems few companies have encountered, with the opportunity to influence what the world’s most advanced AI systems become capable of doing. We’re looking for people who bring different perspectives, take ownership, exercise sound judgment, and hold themselves to an exceptionally high standard. You’ll have the opportunity to do consequential work alongside talented colleagues who challenge one another, collaborate openly, and share a commitment to excellence.

Mercor is profitable and recently raised a $750 million Series D at a $20 billion valuation. We work in person five days a week in San Francisco, New York, and London.

About the Role

We are looking for a Corporate Finance Senior / Associate to join Mercor's Finance team and help lead the company's core corporate finance activities at our headquarters in San Fransisco.

You will sit at the intersection of nearly every part of Mercor, from our rapidly growing core business to new bets, M&A, capital markets, and other strategic initiatives. You will work closely with leaders across the business, our Business Operations partners, the Data and Automation team, and the broader Finance organization to understand how the company operates and translate those operating drivers into financial outcomes.

You will own and continuously develop Mercor's central corporate financial model and support a broad range of strategic finance priorities, including forecasting, capital allocation, financing and capital markets, M&A, and fundraising. You will also help shape how we communicate Mercor's financial performance and trajectory to investors, lenders, and other external stakeholders.

This is a highly analytical, cross-functional, and autonomous role with significant exposure to Mercor's leadership team. We are looking for someone who can take an ambiguous problem, independently determine how to approach it, and drive a workstream from analysis through execution. Your work will directly influence how Mercor plans, invests, allocates capital, and executes on its next stage of growth.

What You'll Do

  • Own and continuously develop Mercor's central corporate financial model, including forecasts and upside and downside scenarios, and independently identify opportunities to improve how we model the business.

  • Drive company-wide forecasting and budgeting in partnership with Finance, Business Operations, the Data and Automation team, and business leaders.

  • Partner with teams across the business to understand key operating drivers and unit economics, translate them into financial outcomes, and use those insights to improve decision-making and accelerate growth.

  • Support capital markets and financing initiatives, including managing external relationships, fundraising, and executing financing transactions.

  • Support M&A and other strategic transactions from initial evaluation through diligence and execution, including independently driving analyses, diligence workstreams, and cross-functional coordination.

  • Evaluate investments and capital allocation decisions, turning complex financial and operating information into clear recommendations for executive leadership.

  • Take ownership of ambiguous, cross-functional projects, develop the workplan and analytical framework, and drive execution with autonomy.

What We're Looking For

  • 4–6 years of finance experience. Investment banking experience is strongly preferred, particularly in combination with private equity, investing, strategic finance, or operating experience at a high-growth startup.

  • Exceptional financial modeling capabilities. You enjoy the technical work and can independently build detailed, structurally sound models from the ground up, while exercising good judgment about when a quick analysis is enough.

  • High agency, resourcefulness, and intellectual curiosity. You are a self-starter who can take a loosely defined objective, determine what needs to happen, and drive it forward without waiting for a playbook.

  • Strong strategic judgment. You can step back from the details, understand the underlying business question, and focus your analysis on the decisions and outputs that matter most.

  • Strong understanding of financing structures, capital allocation, and how financial decisions affect the broader business.

  • Exceptional project management, cross-functional, and communication skills. You can manage complex workstreams, coordinate across a large number of stakeholders, navigate ambiguity and shifting priorities, build strong external relationships, present directly to executive leadership, and drive projects from idea through execution.

Benefits

  • $15,000 relocation bonus

  • $10,000 housing bonus

  • $1,500 per month meal stipend

  • Free Equinox membership

  • Monthly laundry reimbursement

  • Monthly personal wellness reimbursement

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance

  • 401(k) with company match

Mercor is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing equal opportunity to all employees and applicants. Mercor does not discriminate based on actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions and lactation), gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, disability, protected medical condition as defined by California or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, California, or local laws and ordinances. Further, Mercor prohibits discrimination, harassment, and retaliation based on any combination of protected characteristics. This Policy applies to all areas of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, compensation, benefits, discipline, termination, and all other privileges, terms, and conditions of employment. This Policy and the law prohibit employment discrimination against any employee or applicant based on any legally protected status.

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