What are the responsibilities and job description for the Head of Product position at Mercata?
Mercata is building a research OS for fundamental investors. We transform the flood of fragmented financial information into a structured, time-aware intelligence graph that analysts can actually work with.
Our product ingests and links filings, news, press releases, and alternative data across companies, people, and markets. Rather than summarizing documents, Mercata goes deep—capturing the context, evolution, and hidden relationships that matter in the sectors we cover.
By automating ingestion and surfacing high-impact events, Mercata frees analysts from manual review and helps them focus on forming original, high-conviction ideas. Think of it as a hyper-competent, behind-the-scenes sidekick who makes the analyst look brilliant.
We’re an early-stage, venture-backed company with a highly engaged design partner. Our founding team has scaled successful technology companies from 0 to 10's of millions in revenue. This is your chance to shape a new product category from the ground up.
The Role: Head of ProductWe’re looking for a Head of Product to lead product strategy, discovery, and execution at Mercata.
This is a builder role, not a manager role. You’ll work directly with the CEO and CTO to take Mercata from early prototype to indispensable daily tool for investment teams.
You’ll be customer-facing, discovery-driven, and deeply embedded in the product process. You won’t just define a roadmap - you’ll shape what Mercata becomes and how it delivers value. This role is ideal for someone who wants to own outcomes, go deep with users, and create something meaningful in a high-trust, fast-moving environment.
Most critically, we’re looking for someone who has experience in Capital Markets Technology and built products used by buy-side analysts and PMs - ideally in the front office of hedge funds or alternative investment firms - and understands their workflows inside out. If you don't have a Capital Markets Technology background, a strong background in workflow products (Notion, Asana, Monday etc.) would be an excellent background as well.
After 1 Year, the ideal candidate will have:- Built deep trust with the founding CEO and CTO. You’re an essential thought partner in shaping product direction and company strategy.
- Used your experience and skill to to prototype many ideas for buy-side fundamental investors - showing them features vs just writing up a PRD or talking about them
- Developed a focused product roadmap that serves analysts workflows deeply and is aligned with company priorities, and clearly communicated across the team.
- Built strong relationships with a core group of customers who use Mercata daily and regularly engage you to shape its evolution.
- Shipped multiple end-to-end product cycles - from idea to launch - and proven that Mercata can consistently deliver high-quality features that matter.
- Implemented amazing ideas that exist in other cutting edge products
- Defined Mercata’s product foundations that feel obvious in hindsight.
- Created internal clarity. Engineers know what matters and why. The team is energized by the work and confident in the direction.
- Made Mercata measurably more valuable. Power users are growing, usage is deepening, and customers are giving unsolicited positive feedback.
- Introduced and codified a product culture grounded in curiosity, quality and speed of iteration and learning.
- 10 years in product management, with experience owning core parts of complex products
- 4 years of experience developing products in Capital Markets for investment professionals, including those in equity research, hedge funds, and asset management OR workflow management products (Notion, Asana, Monday etc.). Opinionated about what works and doesn't for our customers.
- Hands-on experience prototyping 0-1 products in fast-moving teams (Lovable, Cursor, Claude Code, Replit)
- Strong product judgment and customer discovery skills
- Experience building and leading product teams. Even if you’re not managing now, you’ve built processes, mentored peers, and laid the foundation for future growth.
- Ability to work closely with engineers and designers to move quickly and make smart tradeoffs
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity, working asynchronously, and making decisions independently
- Favours speed over perfection and avoids analysis paralysis
- Location: Able to work and residing in the US or Canada
- Compensation: Competitive salary plus equity