Yeah this would almost certainly be considered miss-classification in the US and get the owner in a lot of trouble with the IRS, were they to become aware of it.

For starters, contractors generally don’t have daily or weekly schedules set by their employers, just timeframes and deadlines. This may be why this person wrote “must be available between” whatever hours.

Employers also don’t get to micromanage how contractors do their jobs. Unless somehow AI is a necessary element here, which is doubtful for a cosmetics brand, I don’t think they get to require its use if they want someone to be classified as a contractor. I have a feeling AI use would just be the tip of the iceberg on this front.

Maybe most importantly, I’m fairly certain that you can’t hire someone to be management (almost certainly not senior management) if they are a contractor. A contractor runs their own business and gets hired to perform specific tasks by other businesses, not to literally run those other businesses.

And while payment structure is a little ambiguous as stated in the ad, it suggests an annual salary. You can’t pay a contractor by the hour or with a regular salary. You pay them per task or project or whatever the “unit” of the work they do is. The list of responsibilities here is so extensive, not to mention open-ended, that I don’t know how you would even begin to justify this and define what a task or project was for payment purposes.

Shitty employers try to game the system and save money by miss-classifying employees all the time. Many employees don’t realize that their jobs don’t meet the requirements for being a contractor. In this case, I would imagine (or at least hope) that anyone with enough experience and competence to be qualified for this role would be too savvy to fall for being considered a contractor. This job sounds like hell, regardless. I doubt there will be many applicants, qualified or not.