Product Manager, Hermes Agent
Hands-on product manager owning the roadmap and day-to-day execution of Hermes Agent, an AI agent product, working directly with the Co-Founder. You'll turn product direction into prioritized plans, write specs, partner with engineering/research on agent behavior and evaluations, and track activation and task-completion metrics while staying close to the open-source community.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Americas (US time zones)
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Product
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Product management experience with a track record of taking products or substantial features from ambiguous problem through launch and iteration
- Software engineering background: can read code, understand system behavior and work through technical tradeoffs with engineers
- Hands-on experience building or shipping AI agent products; understands how models, tools, context and evaluations affect user experience
- Strong product judgment: identify the most important problem, make a clear decision and explain what should wait
- Ability to lead as an individual contributor, creating clarity and momentum without relying on reporting lines
- Excellent written communication: specs engineers can build from and product updates the company can understand
- Comfort owning both product direction and daily shipping work on a small, fast-moving team
- Meaningful working-hours overlap with the US team
Nice to have
- Experience building an open source product or working closely with a developer community
- Experience improving onboarding, activation and retention for a self-serve product
- Experience designing evaluations for agent reliability and real-world task completion
- Contributions to the AI ecosystem, or tools, workflows and projects built with Hermes Agent
Full description
You will own the day-to-day product direction and execution for Hermes Agent, working directly with the Co-Founder to decide what we build, in what order and whether it works for the people using it. This is a hands-on role: you will connect product ambition to clear priorities, help engineering ship and stay close to the community using Hermes every day. Like every role here, this one is a mission, not a narrow lane.
In this role, you will:
- Own the Hermes Agent roadmap, working with the Head of Product to turn product direction into a clear, prioritized plan.
- Run day-to-day product execution, from defining problems and writing specs to coordinating releases and checking whether shipped features deliver the intended result.
- Use Hermes Agent daily. Understand where it succeeds, where it breaks down and what would make people trust it with more of their work.
- Own the user journey from installation and setup to a first useful task and sustained use. Identify friction and work with Engineering and Design to remove it.
- Turn community feedback, user conversations, issues and usage data into product decisions. Distinguish recurring needs from one-off requests and make the tradeoffs clear.
- Define how agent capabilities become useful product experiences, including how Hermes uses tools, develops reusable skills and works with different models.
- Partner with Engineering and Research to evaluate agent behavior. Set acceptance criteria that account for task completion, reliability, speed and cost.
- Keep releases focused and moving. Make scope decisions, resolve dependencies and surface risks early enough for the team to act.
- Define the metrics that show whether Hermes is becoming more useful, including activation, repeat use and successful task completion, and use them to set priorities.
- Keep the roadmap and execution plan current, with clear owners and status. Write simple recaps of what shipped, what is next, what is at risk and which decisions are needed.
- Collaborate with the open source community and the Hermes Enterprise team so improvements to the core agent support the people and organizations building on it.
You should bring:
- Product management experience at a company, with a track record of taking products or substantial features from an ambiguous problem through launch and iteration.
- A software engineering background. You can read code, understand system behavior and work through technical tradeoffs with engineers.
- Hands-on experience building or shipping AI agent products. You understand how models, tools, context and evaluations affect the user experience.