About Mercor
Mercor is at the intersection of labor markets and AI research. We partner with leading AI labs and enterprises to provide the human intelligence essential to AI development.
Our vast talent network trains frontier AI models in the same way teachers teach students: by sharing knowledge, experience, and context that can't be captured in code alone. Today, more than 30,000 experts in our network collectively earn over $1.5 million a day.
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 new San Francisco headquarters.
About the Role
As a Senior Product Manager at Mercor, you’ll own one of the most critical scopes in the company. You’ll operate with extreme independence, solving problems that have no playbook and driving initiatives that shape how the world’s leading AI labs source talent and train frontier models.
You’ll collaborate directly with engineering and leadership, making product decisions that tie directly to strategy, business outcomes, and user needs. You’ll balance visionary bets with hard metrics, and you’ll move seamlessly between strategic direction-setting and hands-on execution.
This role is best for someone who thrives on ambiguity, embraces ownership, and adds massive leverage to both leadership and engineering teams.
What You’ll Do
Drive product strategy, execution, and outcomes within your scope.
Translate high-level company goals and ambiguous business contexts into concrete product roadmaps.
Collaborate directly with engineers, writing specs, reasoning about tradeoffs, and making decisions that unblock progress.
Talk to users frequently, synthesize their needs, and balance user input against strategic priorities.
Define and own metrics while ensuring long-term vision isn’t constrained by short-term data.
Operate independently, owning end-to-end outcomes without needing established processes or policy frameworks.
What We’re Looking For
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 collaborating with engineers and diving into product details.
Strategic Vision: Strong ability to connect user needs and business context to long-term product direction.
User-Centric Judgment: Talks to users frequently, but knows when to inference beyond what’s said and when to say no.
Balance of Metrics & Vision: Equally comfortable running rigorous experiments and pushing forward visionary bets.
Leverage: Your work magnifies the impact of engineering and leadership teams.
Scopes Available
We’re hiring Senior Product Managers across three distinct product areas:
Candidate-Facing Platform
Build the consumer-facing experience that powers how candidates discover opportunities, apply, and succeed on Mercor.
Own the full user journey for talent—from discovery to onboarding.
Hiring Automation
Lead the systems that automate hiring logistics, matching, and speed.
Drive efficiency in how companies onboard top talent with minimal friction.
AI Progress Acceleration
Build the “cursor of human data” that improves the efficiency of creating training data for AI models.
Focus on accelerating AI progress by enabling scalable, high-quality human input.