Mercury has grown its product management team to about 30 PMs
Rohini Pandey · How to build your product team from scratch, attract top product talent, go multi-product, and more · Jan 12, 2025 · at 6:29
Rohini Pandhi shares current headcount and seniority data for Mercury's product management organization.
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“Now we have about 30 PMs across the company, and I think it's, you know, split between junior and more experienced PMs, but it's about half, more than half are senior PMs with managers baked in there somewhere.”
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