Marketplace Product Manager - AI Inference Exchange

OpenRouter, Inc; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenRouter is hiring a Product Manager for its marketplace in New York. You will drive market mechanics, provider-facing products, and economic incentives that balance supply and demand across a global network of models and providers.

You will design and launch market primitives, define prioritization tiers, and build self-serve APIs. You’ll work with engineering to ship durable, scalable infrastructure and real-time diagnostics.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management, technical founder, or marketplace systems experience building products where algorithmic decision-making, economics, and infrastructure meet.
• Experience on a two-sided marketplace, exchange, or price matching engine.
• Technical background and engineering partnership.
• Fluency with LLM inference stacks.
• Hands-on builder with code, data, and AI agents.
• Strong commercial and economic instincts.
• High agency, velocity, and written clarity.

Responsibilities

• Own the Provider Marketplace roadmap, from the provider dashboard, self-serve APIs, and onboarding pipelines to the prioritization, pricing, and quality mechanisms that govern traffic across the network.
• Launch new market primitives. Design, test, and scale new ways to match inference supply and demand, including auctions, committed capacity, and dynamic pricing.
• Shape the buyer and provider product experience. Build the demand-side buying controls and supply-side capacity tools required to make new markets liquid and easy to adopt.
• Define inference prioritization and service tiers. Structure priority lanes, dedicated enterprise capacity, and flex tiers across customer reliability, provider margins, and OpenRouter’s business model.
• Raise the provider quality floor. Build automated feedback loops (continuous evaluations, routing scorecards, and real-time failure diagnostics) so providers see why they win or lose traffic and fix regressions without filing a ticket.
• Scale supply through self-serve product. Partner with Engineering, Provider Development, and Provider Operations to turn manual onboarding, model staging, pricing updates, and health checks into self-serve APIs.
• Run the marketplace on data. Dig into request logs, routing metrics, and unit economics to find unmet demand, stranded capacity, or broken incentives, and turn those findings into crisp specs and shipped product.

Job description

OpenRouter is hiring a Product Manager for its marketplace in New York. You will drive market mechanics, provider-facing products, and economic incentives that balance supply and demand across a global network of models and providers.

You will design and launch market primitives, define prioritization tiers, and build self-serve APIs. You’ll work with engineering to ship durable, scalable infrastructure and real-time diagnostics.