Mercor is organizing human intelligence to power the AI economy. We are powering frontier research, AI benchmarks, and AI agent training at scale for the top AI labs and enterprises. Backed by General Catalyst and Menlo.
About the role
Mercor’s AI Productivity Index (APEX) assesses how effectively frontier AI models can perform economically valuable work. We're looking for a Product Manager to own and scale the APEX brand and public leaderboard. In this role, you will define the positioning, strategy, roadmap, and operational excellence of Mercor's evaluation products, benchmarks, and public and private leaderboards.
What they're looking for
- Experience : 5+ years in product management, technical program management, or a customer-facing technical role. Prior background in SWE, ML, or DS strongly preferred
- Eval literacy : You reason fluently about rubric design, inter-rater reliability, agentic harnesses, contamination and overfitting, and what a small sample can and can't support. 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
- Entrepreneurial : A track record of building a product, program, or business line from nothing
- High Ownership : You take full accountability for outcomes, not just outputs
More about this role
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.
Mercor’s AI Productivity Index (APEX) assesses how effectively frontier AI models can perform economically valuable work. We're looking for a Product Manager to own and scale the APEX brand and public...
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