Product Manager, Provider Marketplace

present of AI; United States; A distancia; USD 110.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

OpenRouter is seeking a Product Manager for its provider marketplace. The role owns the mechanics that connect model providers with developers, including pricing, routing, and onboarding. A strong candidate brings product sense for two-sided markets and comfort with API and developer tooling.

In a fast-evolving AI landscape, you will balance provider incentives against buyer demand, ensuring reliable routing and fair access while shaping the roadmap for marketplace success.

Formación

• Experience building or managing two-sided marketplaces.
• Familiarity with API-based products and developer tools.
• Ability to design pricing and incentive structures.

Responsabilidades

• Own pricing, routing, and onboarding for a provider marketplace.
• Balance provider needs with buyer demand and market fairness.

Conocimientos

Two-sided marketplace product

API & developer tooling

Pricing & incentives design

Descripción del empleo

A product manager for a provider marketplace typically owns the mechanics that connect model providers with the developers who use them, including pricing, routing, and onboarding. A strong candidate brings product sense for two sided markets, comfort with API and developer tooling, and the ability to balance provider needs against buyer demand. Given the company routes requests across many AI models, judgment about incentives and reliability across providers matters.

How it fits the AI era

Marketplace work in AI shifts fast because model supply, pricing, and capabilities change month to month, so the role leans on rapid learning and clear tradeoffs. AI tools speed up research, drafting, and analysis, but deciding which providers to favor and how to keep the market fair stays human. Trust and clear rules for routing remain the core of the job.

How it builds AI experience

This role builds hands on familiarity with many models and providers at once, including how routing, pricing, and evaluation differ across them. A candidate can prepare by studying how model marketplaces and API gateways work and by testing several models on real tasks. That practical comparison is the experience that matters here.

Worth showing

• Two sided marketplace product
• API and developer tools
• Pricing and incentives design

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About OpenRouter

OpenRouter is a unified API gateway and marketplace that routes requests across hundreds of AI models from many providers, per the company.