Private Equity Associate – Consumer & Leisure
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Job Description
Private equity associate building and reviewing consumer and leisure transaction models. Supporting Mercor’s AI labs and enterprise projects that train frontier AI systems.
Responsibilities:
- Build a working financial model of an assigned consumer / leisure transaction from a synthetic deal document pack
- Deliver an editable Excel workbook with live formulas, source references, and stated assumptions
- Peer-review two anonymized models from other contractors against fixed criteria
- Provide a short written rationale for each peer review and complete a review scorecard
- Work on projects focused on training and enhancing AI systems
Requirements:
- 2–4 years total experience
- ~2 years investment banking experience in Consumer / Retail or generalist M&A
- 1–2 years in mid-market or large-cap private equity
- Currently or recently an Associate at a mid-market or large-cap PE fund with a consumer / leisure / multi-site services focus
- Paris office or French deal experience preferred
- Able to build a financial model from source documents without a template
- English-speaking
- Independent contractor status
- Unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time
- Approximately 20–25 hours of effort over 1.5–2 weeks
Benefits:
- Fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule
- Payments weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered
- Competitive pay
- Collaboration with leading researchers
- Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance
- Reasonable accommodations upon request














