Consumer Goods Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $65/hr

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.

Position: Manufacturing & Consumer Goods Expert
Type: Contract
Compensation: $45–$65/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use daily. Include production reports, brand P&L models, S&OP decks, supplier scorecards, BOMs, SOPs, and email threads. Represent enterprise apps like SAP S/4HANA, Siemens Opcenter, and Power BI.
• Design multi-step tasks grounded in real workflows. Require navigation of multiple apps, files, and stakeholders to meaningfully challenge frontier AI agents.
• Collaborate with other manufacturing and CPG experts to design the environment, shape task scope, and review scenarios for realism and rigor.
• Work asynchronously with research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria for manufacturing-domain agent benchmarks.
• Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking. Your work directly informs how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 3+ years of full-time experience at a Fortune 500 or comparable large enterprise (e.g., P&G, Unilever, PepsiCo, Nestlé, 3M, Kimberly-Clark, or a Tier-1 contract manufacturer).
• Background in areas such as plant operations, production management, or operations engineering.
• Day-to-day use of enterprise tools like SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Siemens Opcenter, Rockwell FactoryTalk, and Tableau/Power BI.
• Strong analytical thinking and writing. Able to translate enterprise workflows into structured task specs.

Preferred

• Certifications: PMP, Six Sigma Black/Green Belt, CPIM, CSCP.

Compensation & Legal

• This project is expected to begin on an effective hourly rate. It will transition to a model where experts are compensated based on throughput of quality work rather than a flat accruing hourly rate.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

Resources & Support

• For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
• For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com

PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.