Pricing and Monetization Manager
Mercor is hiring a Pricing and Monetization Manager in San Francisco, United States. It pays $190k-$250k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Mercor.
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- The posting mentions LLM, pricing strategy and financial modelling among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a senior role.
- Mercor has 107 other open roles on Level.
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Own pricing models, cost structures, and monetization strategies for diverse data products serving AI labs and enterprise customers.
Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. We're a leading AI data company, building the layer between human expertise and frontier models. Millions of domain experts on the platform are paid over $4 million per day to train frontier AI models. Mercor's APEX benchmark family measures AI's real-world impact on professional work. Mercor Enterprise brings this same infrastructure to Fortune 500 companies: helping companies capture how their best people actually work, translating that expertise directly back into agents.
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.
The Role
Mercor produces all sorts of data of data types, for AI labs and enterprise customers. We're hiring someone to own pricing structures across our data types.
This person will build the pricing models, rate cards, and margin frameworks to ensure pricing is consistent and defensible.
What You'll Do
Acquisition pricing & cost modeling (buy side)
Establish fair market value for the data we buy — by data type, domain, and end buyer — and set the acquisition cost ceilings that bound what we'll pay
Track competitor bidding behavior and maintain the cost curves that tell us when to pay up to win a corpus and when to walk
Model fully-loaded cost to serve: acquisition price, extraction, human QC, anonymization/PII, and LLM inference — not just what we pay the vendor
Define the priceable unit for each data type — per repo, per file, per video minute, per audio hour — and the quality attributes that move price within a unit
Monetization & margin strategy (sell side)
Design pricing and packaging frameworks for data by data type, volume, format, and customer segment
Build rate cards and tiered pricing for recurring, repeatable data products
Own unit economics per deal and per data product, including transfer pricing, internal chargeback, and direct vs. indirect revenue attribution across account P&Ls
Build the pricing/forecasting toolkit Finance and leadership use to evaluate new data products before launch
Continuously test and refine pricing using win/loss data, renewal behavior, and market feedback
What We're Looking For
6+ years in pricing strategy, monetization, revenue operations, or a related analytical/strategy role — ideally at a data, marketplace, or B2B SaaS company
Strong financial/quantitative modeling skills — fluent in Excel/Sheets; SQL a strong plus
Track record of building pricing models from scratch, not just tuning ones already in place
Comfortable operating with real ambiguity — public benchmarks for pricing data assets are thin, so structured judgment matters as much as data
Sharp cross-functional communicator — this person works daily with Sourcing, Sales, Finance, and Product
Nice to Have
Experience pricing a two-sided marketplace (a cost/supply side and a demand/sell side), not just a single-sided product
Background in AI training data, or market data
Benefits
Bi-annual performance bonus structure
Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
Up to $15k Relocation bonus
$10K proximity bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)
$1.5K monthly stipend for meals
Free Equinox membership
$200 monthly laundry reimbursement
$200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
Health, Dental, Vision insurance
How we rate this
Pricing and Monetization Manager at Mercor rates 30 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
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