Mercor
Product Manager, APEX
San Francisco · Senior
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About the role
- In this role, you will define the positioning, strategy, roadmap, and operational excellence of Mercor's evaluation products, benchmarks, and public and private leaderboards.
- You will work across Research, Engineering, Operations, and Go-To-Market teams to transform evaluation datasets into trusted industry benchmarks that influence model development and purchasing decisions across the AI ecosystem.
- You will serve as the product owner for APEX and our eval platform, driving benchmark innovation, evaluation integrity, infrastructure, customer adoption, and business impact.
Responsibilities
- Own the roadmap and portfolio strategy: Set and influence priorities across new benchmark development, leaderboard launches, infrastructure investment, and expansion into new evaluation categories.
- Enforce eval integrity: Own contamination policy, holdout strategy, versioning, auditability, and release cadence. Publish methodology clearly enough that a skeptical researcher can reconstruct our results.
- Build end-to-end eval pipeline: Own the path from eval run to published result, including harness execution, grading, model onboarding, hyperparameter scaffolds, cost and latency reporting, and the leaderboard surface itself.
Requirements
- Stakeholder alignment: You can bring research, engineering, operations, and GTM around a shared methodology.
Nice to have
- 5+ years in product management, technical program management, or a customer-facing technical role.
- Prior background in SWE, ML, or DS strongly preferred.
- You can tell a real capability gap from measurement noise.
- Public judgment:
- You'll publish numbers about other people's models.
- You know how to be neutral, precise, and defensible under scrutiny.
- Taste for what matters:
- Strong instincts for which capabilities are actually worth measuring, and what results are actually worth highlighting.
Compensation
- Bi-annual performance bonus structure
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
- $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
- $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
- Health, Dental, Vision insurance
- Entrepreneurial: A track record of building a product, program, or business line from nothing.
Company info
- Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy.
- We're a leading AI data company, building the layer between human expertise and frontier models.
- Millions of domain experts on the platform are paid over $4 million per day to train frontier AI models.
- Mercor's APEX benchmark family measures AI's real-world impact on professional work.
- Mercor Enterprise brings this same infrastructure to Fortune 500 companies:
- helping companies capture how their best people actually work, translating that expertise directly back into agents.
- 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 San Francisco, NYC, or London offices.
- You will work directly with frontier AI labs and enterprise customers, representing Mercor as a thought leader in AI evaluation and measurement.
- Run the intake for new benchmarks: Evaluate and prioritize proposals from research, customers, and GTM against real demand and company strategy.
- Work directly with labs and customers: Understand evaluation needs, present and defend results, and turn what you hear into the next benchmark. Support GTM on launches, partnerships, and thought leadership to influence customer model development strategies.
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