Mercor
AI
ProductFinance
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“Product Finance at Mercor. Skills: Financial Modeling, Strategic Decision Support, Investment & ROI Analysis, Pricing & Unit Economics. Financial Modeling of Product Initiatives. Strategic Decision Support”
What You'll Achieve.
Build the financial models, frameworks, and review cadences that define how Mercor evaluates product investments, prices new offerings, and allocates engineering capacity against the highest-ROI bets; Define how Mercor measures success post-launch, build the analytics to track it, and close the loop on whether bets paid off; Move the org from anecdote to evidence
Industry & Context.
Analytical chops; Comfort working with large datasets; Sharp business judgment; See past the numbers to the strategic question being asked; Frame an answer for an executive audience; Comfort operating in ambiguity; Bias toward action; Make defensible assumptions, flag them, and move
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
2-5 years of experience, ideally a mix of management consulting (MBB or comparable) and a product finance, strategic finance, or BizOps role at a high-growth tech company, Exceptional financial modeling skills, analytical chops and comfort working with large datasets, SQL fluency, Sharp business judgment, written and verbal communication, Comfort operating in ambiguity and a bias toward action, A degree in a quantitative or analytical field (e. g. , finance, economics, computer science, math, engineering) or equivalent demonstrated rigor, Interest in and experience working with AI tools to accelerate analytical workflows, Can-do attitude!
Nice to Have
Direct experience supporting a product or engineering org at a high-growth startup, Exposure to AI, marketplace, or human-data business models, Track record of building a finance or strategy function from scratch
What You'll Do.
Financial Modeling of Product Initiatives
Strategic Decision Support
Investment & ROI Analysis
Pricing & Unit Economics
Execution Support with Biz Ops
Reporting & Insight Generation
Cross-Functional Partnership
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner closely with product and engineering leadership; Collaborating with the Business Operations team on execution and rollout; Serve as the go-to financial partner for product and engineering leaders; Work closely with Finance, Product, Engineering, and Biz Ops to align on assumptions, methodologies, and forecasts
Communication Scope
Written communication; Verbal communication; Translate a complex analysis into a one-page memo or a five-slide deck that drives a decision
Full Job Description
ABOUT MERCOR Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. We partner with leading AI labs and enterprises to provide the human intelligence essential to AI development. Our vast talent network trains frontier AI models in the same way teachers teach students: by sharing knowledge, experience, and context that can't be captured in code alone. Today, more than 30,000 experts in our network collectively earn over $2 million a day. 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. ABOUT THE ROLE Mercor is bringing on our first dedicated Product Finance hire to serve as the financial brain trust for our engineering and product organization. You'll be the analytical partner to product and engineering leaders, owning rigorous financial analysis of the initiatives that shape Mercor's product roadmap and translating them into clear, decision-ready insights for our most senior stakeholders. This is a foundational, high-leverage role. You won't inherit a playbook—you'll write it. You'll build the financial models, frameworks, and review cadences that define how Mercor evaluates product investments, prices new offerings, and allocates engineering capacity against the highest-ROI bets. You'll work at the intersection of Product, Engineering, Finance, and Business Operations, with direct exposure to the decisions that drive Mercor's growth. If you like getting smart fast on ambiguous problems, building structured analyses where none existed, and seeing your recommendations move real dollars, this is the role. You'll partner closely with product and engineering leadership, w
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