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Corporate Finance Senior / Associate

Mercor · Mercor HQ, 181 Fremont Street · On-site

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About Mercor

Mercor is organizing human intelligence to power the AI economy. We are powering frontier research, AI benchmarks, and AI agent training at scale for the top AI labs and enterprises. Backed by General Catalyst and Menlo.

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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they'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
More about this role

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.

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.

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