Senior Product Manager, Payments

Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement. As Senior Product Manager, Payments, you'll own how Mercor moves over $4 million a day to hundreds of thousands of experts in nearly every country on earth. Getting people paid accurately, quickly, and in the way they expect is the single most important promise we make to our workforce. You'll own the payments platform end-to-end with significant autonomy, working directly with engineering, finance, and leadership to turn ambiguous problems into shipped products.

Responsibilities

Own the payout experience: Take full ownership of how experts get paid — from contract terms and time capture through disbursement, retries, and support resolution; Build the ledger and money movement platform: Partner with engineering on the ledger, reconciliation, and payout automation that keep every dollar correct, traceable, and auditable at scale; Expand global coverage: Grow the payout rails, methods, and currencies available to experts, weighing cost, speed, reliability, and local regulation market by market; Understand the business: Work backwards from payout cost, failure rates, support volume, and expert retention to decide what gets built; Get in the weeds: Write specs and PRDs, but also build the dashboards, dig through failed payouts, and make small PRs to unblock yourself; Collaborate: Partner closely with engineering, finance, compliance, operations, and support to ship quickly without breaking trust

Requirements

6+ years in product management, with meaningful time on payouts or disbursements specifically — not only payments acceptance or checkout; Working knowledge of payout rails, ledgers and double-entry accounting, reconciliation, FX, KYC, and tax and compliance requirements across markets; Take full accountability for outcomes, not just outputs — including when money moves incorrectly; Able to self-direct in ambiguous contexts, creating clarity for others; Comfortable building scrappy MVPs, querying the data yourself, and reading enough code to unblock engineering; Talks to experts, operators, and finance partners frequently, and knows how to conduct real user research; Equally comfortable running rigorous experiments and pushing forward visionary bets

Nice to have

Prior SWE, ML, or DS experience preferred

Benefits

Bi-annual performance bonus structure; Generous equity grant vested over 4 years; Up to $15k Relocation bonus; $10K housing bonus; $1.5K monthly stipend for meals; Free Equinox membership; $200 monthly laundry reimbursement; $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement; Health, Dental, Vision insurance