Product Manager, Applied AI
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 180 - 230
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Department:
Job Summary
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 cant be captured in code alone. Today more than 30000 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. Youll 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 Product Manager on the Applied AI team at Mercor youll own one of the most critical scopes in the company. Youll operate with extreme independence solving problems that have no playbook and driving initiatives that shape how the worlds leading AI labs source talent and train frontier models.
Youll collaborate directly with engineering and leadership making product decisions that tie directly to strategy business outcomes and user needs. Youll balance visionary bets with hard metrics and youll 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 Youll 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 isnt constrained by short-term data
Operate independently owning end-to-end outcomes without needing established processes or policy frameworks
Scopes Available
Build interfaces that reduce average handling time (AHT) for thousands of experts
Scale production of frontier data types
Work closely with frontier labs to support AI research
What Were 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 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-Centric Judgment: Talks to users frequently but knows when to inference beyond whats 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.
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Time Management
- Data Analytics
- Analytical
- Agile
- Requirement Gathering
- Strategic thinking
- Visio
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Market Research
- UML
- Cross Functional Teams
