What the work actually involves
You will be handed marketing and GTM documents — sometimes model-generated, sometimes drawn from real workflows — and asked to judge them against a rubric. That might mean scoring a positioning memo for whether it distinguishes a buyer from a user, checking whether a channel-mix recommendation is defensible given the stated CAC and sales cycle, or flagging a launch plan that quietly assumes a sales motion the company doesn't have. Output is written: a score, and a paragraph or two explaining exactly which line of the document fails and why a practitioner would catch it.
A lot of tasks touch the artifacts of the job rather than the strategy talk around it — spreadsheet models with funnel math, decks with a narrative arc, one-pagers for a sales team. Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word is listed as a required skill because you will be reading and sometimes reconstructing those files, not describing them abstractly.
What the platform screens for
Mercor's screen is AI-led and pushes on specifics. Expect it to ask which products you launched, what the segment was, what the pipeline numbers looked like, and what you'd do differently — then follow up on the vaguest thing you said. Two years of relevant professional experience and a bachelor's degree are the stated floor. The differentiator is whether you can articulate why a marketing document is wrong in terms someone could act on, rather than declaring it "weak" or "off-brand."
Logistics
- Fully remote and largely asynchronous; you claim batches of tasks and complete them on your own schedule
- Volume fluctuates by project — treat it as a variable-hours engagement, not a steady weekly load
- Rates in the $80–160/hr band reflect observed postings and vary with project, seniority, and task type; nothing is guaranteed
- Eligibility is limited to candidates based in the United States, Europe, the UK, or Canada