# Product Manager at Mercor

Product Manager at Mercor in San Francisco. On-site, full-time, paying $180k–$500k. Posted June 29, 2026.

- Company: Mercor
- Location: San Francisco
- Workplace: On-site
- Job type: Full-time
- Pay: $180k–$500k
- Experience: 2+ years
- Posted: 2026-06-29
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mercor/b0f22275-9ec5-4725-93f9-ea0104cc1272/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/product-manager-mercor-14t4vv

## Requirements

- Experience: 2+ years as a product manager
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field such as Mathematics, Statistics, or Data Science; degrees in Economics, Cognitive Science, or Business considered with strong technical experience
- 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.

## 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

- **Education**: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field such as Mathematics, Statistics, or Data Science; degrees in Economics, Cognitive Science, or Business considered with strong technical experience

- **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