What the work involves

You receive AI-generated work products that imitate the deliverables a product manager ships: a PRD for a payments feature, a quarterly roadmap in Sheets, a prioritization matrix, a launch readiness deck. Your job is to grade them against a rubric and explain your reasoning in writing. That means catching the things a non-PM reviewer misses — success metrics that don't connect to the stated problem, acceptance criteria that are untestable, a RICE score with invented reach numbers, a roadmap that promises dependent workstreams in parallel, a competitive slide that misstates a well-known product's feature set.

A typical task is scoring one artifact and writing structured feedback: where it fails, why it fails, and what a competent practitioner would have produced instead. Expect to work across formats — long-form docs, spreadsheets with formulas and Gantt logic, and slide decks where layout, hierarchy, and chart choices are themselves part of the grade. Aesthetic and presentation errors count here, which is why the listing is explicit about Slides and PowerPoint proficiency.

What the platform screens for

  • Verifiable depth. Mercor's screening interviews probe specifics: which frameworks you've actually used in anger, how you've handled a roadmap that slipped, what your last PRD's success metric was. Vague framework name-dropping tends to surface quickly under follow-up.
  • Evaluation judgment. Can you distinguish a document that is wrong from one that is merely different from how you'd write it? Rubric work rewards calibration and consistency more than personal taste.
  • Written clarity. Feedback is the deliverable. Terse, structured, defensible notes beat long ones.
  • Credential fit. 5+ years in product management, roadmap ownership, or requirements authoring; professional English fluency; an advanced degree is a plus, not a gate.

Logistics

Fully remote and asynchronous. Work is drawn from a task queue with deadlines rather than fixed shifts, so hours are self-scheduled — most contributors take on part-time volume alongside other work. Rates in the $80–120/hr band reflect what has been observed for this listing and vary by track, task complexity, and calibration performance; nothing is guaranteed. Volume also fluctuates with project demand, so treat this as supplemental rather than a full-time replacement.