Product Manager Provider Marketplace
AI model gateway and marketplace offering a unified API to access, route, and manage models from multiple providers.
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About OpenRouter
OpenRouter provides developers and businesses with a single, OpenAI-compatible API for hundreds of AI models. It supports provider failover, routing for price, latency and reliability, plus enterprise controls and observability.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own the provider marketplace roadmap, including provider dashboards, self-serve APIs, onboarding pipelines, prioritization, pricing, and quality mechanisms. You will design and scale market structures such as auctions, committed capacity, and dynamic pricing; develop buyer and provider tools; define service tiers; and use marketplace data to ship improvements.
Requirements
- 5+ years of product management, technical founder, or marketplace systems experience
- Experience with a two-sided marketplace, exchange, or price-matching engine
- Technical background with software engineering experience, Computer Science study, or equivalent technical depth
- Understanding of API design and engineering constraints
- Fluency with LLM inference stacks, including caching, batching, and quantization tradeoffs
- Experience using coding agents to analyze data, prototype workflows, and validate specifications
- Knowledge of margin and capacity tradeoffs and incentive design
Responsibilities
- Own the provider marketplace roadmap, including dashboards, self-serve APIs, onboarding pipelines, prioritization, pricing, and quality mechanisms
- Design, test, and scale market structures such as auctions, committed capacity, and dynamic pricing
- Build demand-side buying controls and supply-side capacity tools
- Define inference prioritization, priority lanes, enterprise capacity, and flex tiers
- Build automated feedback loops, routing scorecards, and real-time failure diagnostics
- Turn manual onboarding, model staging, pricing updates, and health checks into self-serve APIs
- Analyze request logs, routing metrics, and unit economics to identify marketplace opportunities and produce product specifications