Product Manager

mercor.com; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bi-annual bonus

Equity grant

Relocation bonus

Housing stipend

Meals stipend

Equinox membership

Laundry reimbursement

Wellness reimbursement

Health insurance

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a Product Manager to own a major product area and work directly with engineering and leadership to turn ambiguous problems into shipped products. You’ll balance long-term strategy with rapid execution, shaping the company’s trajectory and bottom line.

You’ll partner with expert annotators, customers, and internal operators to understand needs, own end-to-end lifecycles, write specs, build dashboards, and ship features quickly in a fast-paced AI data platform environment.

Qualifications

• 2+ years as a product manager or similar role.
• Experience in SWE, ML, or DS preferred.
• Own outcomes with strong accountability.
• Able to self-direct in ambiguous contexts.
• Strong connection of user needs to business strategy.
• Experience conducting user research and interviews.

Responsibilities

• Own major product area with autonomy from conception to sunsetting.
• Write specs and PRDs; build dashboards and small PRs.
• Collaborate with engineering, research, operations, and design.
• Turn ambiguous problems into shipped products.
• Balance long-term strategy with rapid execution.
• Make data-driven decisions to drive growth and health.

Skills

Product management

Ownership

Independent work

Technical fluency

Strategic vision

User research

Metrics-driven

Cross-functional collaboration

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, prior experience in SWE, ML, or DS preferred.
• 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