Product Manager

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.

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