Applied Business & Commerce Benchmark Specialist

Business & Operations • Independent Contractor • Remote • Weekly Payouts

Role Overview

We are seeking business and commerce experts to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will write and verify rigorous multiple-choice questions across core business domains, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks used to advance AI capabilities.

You will be assigned one of two task types

• Question Authoring, Create original, challenging multiple-choice questions in your area of business expertise, rate their difficulty, and submit them for review.

• Question Verification, Review pre-written questions for accuracy, clarity, and rigor. Edit where needed, rate difficulty, and document any changes made.

Business & Commerce Domains Covered

Logistics / Supply Chain Management, Operations Research Analysis, Sustainability, Management Analysis, Product Management and Strategy, Digital Marketing.

Key Responsibilities

• Author original business questions that test deep conceptual understanding, not surface-level recall

• Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined, all necessary information must be in the problem statement

• Rate each question's difficulty: Medium (intro undergraduate), Hard (advanced undergraduate), or Expert (post-graduate and above)

• Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible but subtly incorrect alternatives that challenge expert-level solvers

• Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions with clear, concise reasoning in markdown format

• Supply 1, 5 academic references per question from reputable sources (peer-reviewed journals, university repositories)

• For verification tasks: flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify any edits made

Ideal Qualifications

• PhD, DBA, or doctoral candidate in Business Administration, Management, Marketing, or a closely related field

• MBA or Master's degree considered for candidates with exceptional depth in a specific subdomain

• Strong command of graduate-level business strategy, organizational theory, and quantitative methods

• Industry leadership experience or research publications in business fields is a strong plus

• Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly and concisely

More About the Opportunity

• Expected commitment: 10+ hours/week

• Asynchronous, fully remote work

Details

• Pay: $77 to $98 per hour (hourly)
• Commitment: Flexible • remote
• Eligible locations: United States
• Platform: Mercor (weekly payouts via Stripe or Wise)

Submit your application via the link below. Qualified candidates move through Mercor's short AI interview and selection process. Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.