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We work in-person five days a week in our San Francisco, NYC, or London offices.\nAbout the Role\nAs a Product Manager, you'll build products that help the world's leading AI labs and enterprises transform human expertise into better AI models.\nYou'll own a major product area with significant autonomy, working directly with engineering and leadership to turn ambiguous problems into shipped products. You'll balance long-term strategy with rapid execution, making decisions that directly shape the company's trajectory and bottom line.\nWhat You’ll Do\nAdvance the frontier of AI: Mercor is organizing humanity's expertise into better AI models for every lab and enterprise. You'll build and own the products that make this possible.\n\nUnderstand User Needs: Work directly with expert annotators, customers, and internal operators to deeply understand their needs.\n\nUnderstand the Business: Work backwards from business outcomes to make product decisions that impact business health and growth.\n\nEnd-to-end ownership: Own product and feature lifecycles end-to-end, from conception to execution to sunsetting when necessary .\n\nGet in the weeds: Write specs and PRDs but also build dashboards and make small PRs to unblock yourself.\n\nCollaborate: Partner closely with engineering, research, operations, and design to ship products quickly.\n\nScopes Available\nThis is a general listing for all levels and product areas at Mercor. Candidates will be matched at a later stage to one of the following groups. 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