Product Manager, APEX
Core
Own and scale the APEX brand and public leaderboard, defining positioning, strategy, and roadmap for Mercor's evaluation products and benchmarks.
Role type
Senior Product Manager (AI Evaluation & Benchmarks)
Builds
Trusted industry benchmarks, public and private leaderboards, and evaluation infrastructure for frontier AI models.
Domain
Artificial Intelligence / AI Evaluation / Benchmarking
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis
Required skills
Product strategy, roadmap planning, benchmark design, evaluation integrity, stakeholder management, PRD writing, technical fluency in ML/AI
Preferred skills
Background in SWE, ML, or DS, experience building products from scratch, ability to publish and defend technical results
Technologies
AI evaluation harnesses, leaderboard platforms, model onboarding systems
Responsibilities
Set priorities for new benchmark development and leaderboard launches; evaluate and prioritize proposals from research and customers; enforce evaluation integrity policies including contamination and versioning; build end-to-end evaluation pipelines; work directly with frontier AI labs and enterprise customers; track adoption and revenue to justify ROI.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
