Event Lead

📋 Description

• Own events strategy and annual calendar across enterprise and human-data GTM, recruiting, and internal.
• Set the event format and quality bar to maximize impact.
• Lead Mercor's conferences and presence at key events (NeurIPS, ICML, etc.).
• Hands-on execution: manage vendors and cross-functional teams.
• Coordinate GTM and recruiting partners to drive relationships and pipeline.
• Develop measurement and repeatable playbooks to improve programs over time.

🎯 Requirements

• 6–8 years in events, field marketing, or experiential.
• Deep, defensible opinions on what makes an event land and when to push back.
• Entrepreneurial, hands-on with vendors, details, and run-of-show.
• Structured thinker who communicates across marketing, recruiting, and vendors.
• Steady under ambiguity; you prefer a plan and act on it.
• Polished enough to represent Mercor to founders, lab leaders, and executives.

🎁 Benefits

• Bi-annual performance bonus
• Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
• Up to $15k relocation bonus
• $10K housing bonus near our office
• $1.5K monthly meals stipend
• Health, Dental, Vision insurance