Product Manager

Job description

# **About Mercor** Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. We're a leading AI data company, building the layer between human expertise and frontier models. Millions of domain experts on the platform are paid over $4 million per day to train frontier AI models. Mercor's APEX benchmark family measures AI's real-world impact on professional work. Mercor Enterprise brings this same infrastructure to Fortune 500 companies: helping companies capture how their best people actually work, translating that expertise directly back into agents. Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement. Achieving this requires an ambitious, fast-paced and deeply committed team. You’ll work alongside researchers, operators, and AI companies at the forefront of shaping the systems that are redefining society. Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion. We work in-person five days a week in our San Francisco, NYC, or London offices. ### **About the Role** As a Product Manager, you'll build products that help the world's leading AI labs and enterprises transform human expertise into better AI models. You'll own a major product area with significant autonomy, working directly with engineering and leadership to turn ambiguous problems into shipped products. You'll balance long-term strategy with rapid execution, making decisions that directly shape the company's trajectory and bottom line. ### **What You’ll Do** - **Advance the frontier of AI**: Mercor is organizing humanity's expertise into better AI models for every lab and enterprise. You'll build and own the products that make this possible. - **Understand User Needs**: Work directly with expert annotators, customers, and internal operators to deeply understand their needs. - **Understand the Business**: Work backwards from business outcomes to make product decisions that impact business health and growth. - **End-to-end ownership**: Own product and feature lifecycles end-to-end, from conception to execution to sunsetting when necessary . - **Get in the weeds**: Write specs and PRDs but also build dashboards and make small PRs to unblock yourself. - **Collaborate**: Partner closely with engineering, research, operations, and design to ship products quickly. ### **Scopes Available** This is a general listing for all levels and product areas at Mercor. Candidates will be matched at a later stage to one of the following groups. We are willing to make exceptional offers to outlier candidates. - **Expert Network**: Build products that grow and improve the world's highest-quality network of AI experts. - **Annotation and Eval Interface**: Build the system of record for creating and analyzing datasets - **Research**: Productize advances in eval science, model-in-the-loop, and post-training to improve the value of our offerings. - **New Bets**: Launch 0 -> 1 product bets. ### **What We’re Looking For** - **Experience:** 2+ years as a product manager - **Education**: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field such as Mathematics, Statistics, or Data Science; degrees in Economics, Cognitive Science, or Business considered with strong technical experience - **High Ownership:** You take full accountability for outcomes, not just outputs. - **Independence:** Able to self-direct in ambiguous contexts, creating clarity for others. - **Technical Fluency:** Comfortable building scrappy MVPs yourself when needed to validate direction, unblock engineering, or accelerate iteration. - **Strategic Vision:** Strong ability to connect user needs and business context to long-term product direction. - **User Obsession and Understanding:** Talks to users frequently, knows how to effectively conduct user research and customer interviews. - **Balance of Metrics & Vision:** Equally comfortable running rigorous experiments and pushing forward visionary bets. **Benefits** - Bi-annual performance bonus structure - Generous equity grant vested over 4 years - Up to $15k Relocation bonus - $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office) - $1.5K monthly stipend for meals - Free Equinox membership - $200 monthly laundry reimbursement - $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement - Health, Dental, Vision insurance