The unified interface for every model. Find the best models & prices for your prompts. Backed by a16z and Menlo.
About the role
Experience on a two-sided marketplace, exchange, or price matching engine. You have worked on a scaled marketplace (such as commerce seller ecosystems, cloud compute markets, ad exchanges, or logistics marketplaces) and understand liquidity, price discovery, supply-demand balancing, and trust systems. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of product management, technical founder, or marketplace systems experience building products where algorithmic decision-making, economics, and infrastructure meet
- Hands-on builder with code, data, and AI agents. You use coding agents daily to analyze data, prototype workflows, and validate specs before asking for engineering time
- Strong commercial and economic instincts. You enjoy digging into how each layer of the inference stack makes money. You know how to modeling margin and capacity tradeoffs, while designing incentives where customers, providers, and the platform all win
- High agency, velocity, and written clarity. You turn messy technical and economic problems into clear written strategies, talk directly to users and partners, cut scope intelligently, and ship fast
More about this role
OpenRouter is the leading AI routing and infrastructure layer that developers and enterprises use to access, manage, and optimize their AI use across models and providers. We help our customers avoid lock-in, capacity constraints, and unnecessary cost, giving them the flexibility to move fast, scale confidently, and adapt as models evolve.
OpenRouter sits at the center of how developers and organizations discover, evaluate, integrate, and operate the world’s leading open and proprietary models, routing billions of tokens across dozens of model labs and inference providers every day.
About the Role
We’re hiring a Product Manager for OpenRouter’s marketplace between developers and inference providers. We need your help as we transform our routing layer into a liquid marketplace that raises the quality floor for the entire ecosystem and opens up new ways to buy and sell inference.
You’ll drive the marketplace mechanics, provider-facing products, and economic incentives that match supply and demand. Alongside the engineering, operations, and partnerships teams, you’ll launch new market structures (like auctions, priority lanes, and dynamic pricing), build the benchmarks and...
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