# Product Manager, APEX at Mercor

- Company: Mercor
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://mercor.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $160K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-19
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mercor/bedec64a-ece8-498a-8f67-7b84acd32c75
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/mercor-product-manager-apex/

## 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

Tags: Engineering