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Product Manager

Mercor logoMercor
TypeFull-time
WorkplaceOn-site
SeniorityJunior
Salary$180,000–$500,000
LocationSan Francisco, CA
Posted11/11/2026
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About Mercor

Mercor’s mission is to organize human intelligence for the AI economy. We build the infrastructure that enables frontier AI labs and enterprises to train, evaluate, and improve AI on real-world professional work. More than five million experts have joined our network, and we pay out over $5 million daily for their knowledge and expertise.

We built our training and evaluation infrastructure alongside the world’s leading AI labs. Now, we’re bringing those capabilities to enterprises across industries, enabling them to train, evaluate, and improve AI using their own expertise and standards. Our APEX benchmarks measure how AI performs on economically valuable work, while our enterprise evaluations and post-training capabilities turn those insights into measurable improvements across real-world workflows.

Our work sits at the intersection of frontier AI, human expertise, and real-world application. We’re solving problems few companies have encountered, with the opportunity to influence what the world’s most advanced AI systems become capable of doing. We’re looking for people who bring different perspectives, take ownership, exercise sound judgment, and hold themselves to an exceptionally high standard. You’ll have the opportunity to do consequential work alongside talented colleagues who challenge one another, collaborate openly, and share a commitment to excellence.

Mercor is profitable and recently raised a $750 million Series D at a $20 billion valuation. We work in person five days a week in San Francisco, New York, and London.

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

Mercor is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing equal opportunity to all employees and applicants. Mercor does not discriminate based on actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions and lactation), gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, disability, protected medical condition as defined by California or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, California, or local laws and ordinances. Further, Mercor prohibits discrimination, harassment, and retaliation based on any combination of protected characteristics. This Policy applies to all areas of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, compensation, benefits, discipline, termination, and all other privileges, terms, and conditions of employment. This Policy and the law prohibit employment discrimination against any employee or applicant based on any legally protected status.

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Mercor

Organizing human intelligence to power the AI economy.

We find the best experts in every professional domain and put their knowledge to work training frontier models. Through APEX, we measure whether those models can actually perform economically valuable work. We're also bringing that expertise to enterprises: deploying custom AI agents, staffing teams with vetted domain experts, and helping organizations encode their own knowledge into AI systems.

Private companySeries DMega roundIn the newsHiring fast
Founded2023
HQSan Francisco, United States
Size10,000+ employees
IndustrySoftware Development
Latest fundingSeries D · Aug 6, 2026
Investors
Felicis
Tech stacklgtm, anaplan, brandfolder, trackit, amazon-sqs, pitchbook, sentinelone, serverless, chromium, microsoft-compliance-manager, power-bi, sprinto, medidata, sage-intacct, elasticsearch, grunt, aws-systems-manager, ml-flow, linkedin-campaign-manager, vanta
News
  • Mercor Raises $750 Million for AI Training Platform
  • AI training startup Mercor valued at $20 billion in latest funding round
  • Mercor CEO Brendan Foody on Nvidia investment: I've met with Jensen Huang 'a variety of times'
  • Mercor Raises $750 Million Series D at $20 Billion Valuation to Help Enterprises Own Their Intelligence
  • Mercor CEO Brendan Foody: Latest $750M funding will accelerate the enterprise business
  • Mercor Says the US Job Map Misses $140B a Year of Work

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