Product Manager

Department: Engineering

Location: San Francisco

Compensation: $180K – $300K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus

Employment Type: FullTime

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