E-Commerce Model Prompt Evaluator

Role Overview

We are seeking experienced e-commerce professionals to author and verify high-quality open-ended prompts for AI model evaluation. You will craft and review practical, unambiguous e-commerce problems across core subdomains, assessing AI reasoning quality and helping establish rigorous evaluation standards for frontier language models.

You will be assigned one of two task types:

Authoring Task

Create 5 original, open-ended prompts from your assigned subdomain at varying difficulty levels (undergraduate, advanced undergraduate, or graduate/professional). Prompts should require human judgment to evaluate the quality of the AI's response, such as strategic analysis, campaign design, or data-driven decision making.

Verification Task

Review 5 authored prompts for clarity, scope alignment, difficulty accuracy, and uniqueness. Edit prompts and difficulty ratings where needed.

E-Commerce Subdomains Covered

Pricing Strategy, Sales Analytics, Marketing (incl. digital marketing, customer acquisition, retention, and campaign management).

Key Responsibilities - Author clear, unambiguous, open-ended e-commerce prompts that elicit evaluable AI responses - Verify prompts are within the scope of the assigned subdomain and correctly rated for difficulty - Ensure all 5 prompts in a task are sufficiently distinct from one another with varying difficulty levels - Apply expert judgment to assess the depth and quality of e-commerce reasoning required - Edit prompts and difficulty assignments where standards are not met

Ideal Qualifications - Master's degree or higher in Business, Marketing, Economics, Data Science, or a closely related field - 2–6 years of professional experience in e-commerce, digital marketing, retail analytics, or a related field - Strong understanding of pricing strategy, sales funnel analytics, and performance marketing - Experience with platforms such as Amazon Seller Central, Shopify, or major ad platforms is a plus - Excellent written English and ability to craft precise, well-scoped technical questions

More About the Opportunity - Expected commitment: 10+ hours/week - Asynchronous, fully remote work

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.

Contract and Payment Terms

• You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
• This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule.
• Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
• Your work at Mercor will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.
• Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.
• Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.

About Mercor

Mercor partners with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models using human expertise. You will work on projects that focus on training and enhancing AI systems. You will be paid competitively, collaborate with leading researchers, and help shape the next generation of AI systems in your area of expertise.