Executive Assistant & Admin Operations Expert
Mercor • Remote • Posted 0 days ago
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$52.5/task
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About this Role
What you'll do
Mercor is partnering with leading AI labs to advance frontier agent evaluations in executive and office administration. As an Executive Assistant & Admin Operations Expert, you'll build long-horizon admin tasks that mirror the work you already do, each paired with a deterministic rubric that grades agent performance against verifiable ground truth. Tasks need to have checkable answers; no open-ended essays, no subjective judgment calls.
Location Requirements
What you'll do
Executive support
Expense and procurement
Office operations
Who we're looking for
Compensation
What you'll do Mercor is partnering with leading AI labs to advance frontier agent evaluations in executive and office administration. As an Executive Assistant & Admin Operations Expert, you'll build long-horizon admin tasks that mirror the work you already do, each paired with a deterministic rubric that grades agent performance against verifiable ground truth. Tasks need to have checkable answers; no open-ended essays, no subjective judgment calls. Expect to build scenarios across: These scenarios will be challenging and take long sessions of focus. Who we're looking for Compensation $45–$60/hr depending on domain depth and prior experience. Strong contributors are promoted based on task quality and throughput. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.
- Executive support: calendar triage against defined priority rules, multi-timezone scheduling with feasibility constraints, travel booking against budget and calendar windows
- Expense and procurement: expense reports against policy with known approvals/denials, purchase requests against rule-based limits
- Office operations: service tickets routed against a defined owner map, document filing against a taxonomy
- 3+ years as an EA, office manager, or senior admin supporting busy principals
- Expertise in one or more of the following: principal-level calendar triage and multi-timezone scheduling, expense systems (Concur, Expensify, Ramp), corporate travel platforms (Navan, TravelPerk), async comms operations
- Comfortable reading and producing admin artifacts: itineraries, agendas, expense packages, service tickets
- Clear written communication; can articulate reasoning step by step and encode it into deterministic rubrics
- Located in the United States or Canada
Requirements
- Must be eligible to work in Remote
- Fluent proficiency in English (Written & Verbal)
- Reliable high-speed internet connection
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience
- Demonstrated expertise in Business
Compensation Analysis
Mercor is partnering with leading AI labs to advance frontier agent evaluations in executive and office administration. As an Executive Assistant & Admin Operations Expert, you'll build long-horizon admin tasks that mirror the work you already do, each paired with a deterministic rubric that grades agent performance against verifiable ground truth.
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