Marketing Specialist
Mercor • Remote
Company
Mercor
Hourly rate
$60 – $80/hr
Location
Remote
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Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced Large Language Models.
What you'll do
- Guide research and engineering teams to close knowledge gaps in brand strategy, growth marketing, and campaign-reasoning tasks.
- Design challenging, domain-relevant marketing tasks and write accurate, well-reasoned solutions grounded in real marketing practice.
- Evaluate AI model outputs against structured rubrics and provide clear, written feedback on correctness, judgment, and reasoning quality.
- Develop and refine evaluation guidelines and scoring rubrics specific to marketing tasks.
- Collaborate with other subject matter experts to ensure consistency and accuracy in training data.
What you need
- 8+ years of dedicated professional experience in marketing (e.g., brand strategy, growth marketing, performance marketing) at a recognized, top-tier organization (e.g., P&G, Unilever, Nike, Ogilvy, WPP, Omnicom, or equivalent).
- Prior hands-on experience evaluating LLM/AI model outputs against rubrics or structured scoring criteria — mandatory; please describe this experience in your application.
- Demonstrable career progression (e.g., Marketing Manager → Senior Manager → Director/VP of Marketing).
- Ability to engage reliably for at least 35 hours/week during weekdays.
- Verbal and written communication skills, problem-solving skills, and interpersonal skills.
About Mercor and legal notices
About Cincinnatus LLC
Cincinnatus LLC is an enterprise staffing company that partners with leading technology companies to source and employ highly skilled professionals for contingent and contract-based opportunities. Cincinnatus serves as the employer of record for these engagements, providing W-2 employment, payroll, benefits, and compliance, while placing employees directly within client teams to work on high-impact initiatives.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Cincinnatus is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or any other legally protected characteristic.
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Interview Prep
Sample questions for a Email Marketing Specialist role, written in-house to help you prepare.
How do you approach segmenting an email list to improve relevance without creating so many segments that the strategy becomes unmanageable?
I segment based on behavior and intent signals that actually predict different messaging needs, like engagement level or purchase history, rather than creating a segment for every possible attribute. A smaller number of meaningfully different segments is easier to maintain and usually performs better than a large number of only marginally different ones.
What's your process for running an A/B test on email content in a way that produces a reliable, actionable result?
I test one variable at a time with a large enough sample to reach statistical significance, rather than changing multiple elements at once or calling a result early based on a small early lead. I also make sure the test duration accounts for how email engagement patterns can vary by day of week, rather than concluding based on a short window that might not be representative.
How do you make sure your email marketing practices stay compliant with data protection regulations across different regions you send to?
I build consent and preference management into the sending process itself, rather than relying on manual checks, and I stay current on regional requirements that differ, since a practice that's compliant in one region might not be in another. I keep unsubscribe and preference options clear and genuinely functional rather than just technically present.
What's your approach to deciding how frequently to email a given segment without over-emailing and increasing unsubscribes?
I calibrate frequency based on that segment's actual engagement pattern rather than a single frequency applied to the whole list, since a highly engaged segment can often tolerate more frequent contact than a less engaged one without the same unsubscribe risk. I watch engagement trends over time to catch fatigue before it shows up as a spike in unsubscribes.
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