About the RoleAs 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 AvailableThis 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
