Product Marketing Manager

About Mercor

Mercor is defining the future of work. 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 $2 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 San Francisco NYC or London offices.

About the role:

Were looking for a Product Marketing Manager to define how APEX (our AI benchmarks) is positioned understood and adopted by the AI researchers and technical leads.

This is an opportunity to be the first PMM at Mercor and build the function from the ground up. Youll shape the market narrative for a product at the intersection of human expertise and frontier AI development and define what great product marketing looks like at a company that is growing faster than most.

Youll work directly with research engineering and GTM teams to deeply understand our audience refine the messaging and infrastructure and ensure every launch asset and partnership is in service of a broader narrative.

Key responsibilities:

• Audience research and positioning: Become the internal expert on AI researchers and technical buyers: how they work what they care about and what would make them advocates. Use that understanding to develop collateral that earns credibility and builds hype.

• Messaging and narrative: Own core messaging for APEX across all channels and audiences. Turn complex benchmarking methodology and research into narratives that resonate with technical stakeholders. Maintain messaging frameworks FAQs and audience-specific language that keeps every customer-facing team aligned.

• Social-first launch & content strategy: Plan and execute launches across research engineering web and marketing to ensure launches land and create momentum in the AI ecosystem (especially on X and LinkedIn).

• Content and asset development: Create and support the development of marketing materials such as research reports technical one-pagers blog posts and launch videos.

• Advocacy and partner marketing: Develop new programs with individual researchers and partners at AI labs application layer companies and enterprises that place Mercor/APEX in the center of AI research.
  

Must haves:

• 4-6 years of professional experience early-stage high-growth or fast paced company.

• Youve been part of a small marketing team and know how to flex across responsibilities without losing focus.

• You know how to market to technical audiences. You understand how AI researchers think what earns their trust and how to communicate about benchmarks evals and research.

• You have a deep understanding of data storytelling.

• You use AI tools to accelerate your own work and youre comfortable in conversations with the labs and technical stakeholders we partner with.

• You earn trust with senior stakeholders across product research and sales and you know how to drive alignment.

• You think in frameworks not playbooks. You approach new problems with first-principles thinking and build processes where none exists.

• You have range and a willingness to shift as priorities change.

Bonus

• Experience at a company that sells into or partners with AI labs

• Background in technical content research communications or developer marketing

• Familiarity with the AI benchmarking or evals landscape

Required Experience:

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