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Former Uber Chief Product Officer hired as Mercor's President in May 2025 — the senior operator brought in to scale a company run by 22-year-olds. Forbes says he oversees hiring and client reporting.

high confidenceAt Mercor since 2025Updated 2026-09-19

Background

A veteran product leader: founded Aceva Technologies (1999-2007, sold to SunGard), then VP Platforms at Zynga (2010-13), VP Product for Search Ads at Google (2013-18), then SVP and Chief Product Officer at Uber. On DoubleVerify's board since July 2022. Harvard MBA, BS from UC Berkeley. SF Standard gave his age as 54 in November 2025.

What they run now

Operating cadence: hiring, client reporting, compensation structure. Forbes reports that after he arrived, strategic project leads moved from revenue commissions (5% cash, 10% equity) to performance bonuses.

Career

  1. 2025-05 – presentPresident, Mercor
  2. 2022-07 – presentBoard director, DoubleVerify
  3. 2013 – 2018VP Product Management, Search Ads, Google
  4. 2010 – 2013VP Platforms, Zynga
  5. 1999 – 2007Founder & CEO, Aceva Technologies — acquired by SunGard
  6. —SVP & Chief Product Officer, Uber
  7. —Harvard Business School, MBA
  8. —UC Berkeley, BS

Connections

Investments and boards

  • Board director, DoubleVerify (NYSE: DV)
Why it matters here

Controls how Mercor organises and pays its project leads and client delivery — i.e. how verticals like creative/design get staffed and reported. Indirect relevance.

How to reach

Low public profile. Uber/Google product alumni networks are the plausible warm path (speculation).

What we could not establish
  • Exact dates of his Uber CPO tenure.
  • No public statements on expert data found.

Sources

  1. DoubleVerify board bio: Sundeep Jain
  2. SF Standard: SF's youngest billionaires bet on a new kind of job boom (2025-11-07)
  3. Forbes: Mercor's founders grapple with employee fraud and North Korean infiltration (2026-04-15)
  4. Wikipedia: Mercor
  5. Daversa on X: Sundeep Jain joining Mercor as President
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