Staff Product Manager, AI Foundations

Vanta•,

1d•$243,000 - $286,000•Remote

About The Position

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. As a Staff Product Manager, AI Foundations at Vanta, you will build the core AI capabilities that power Vanta’s AI product experiences: the agent harness our agents are built on, and the quality and evaluation stack that makes them trustworthy. The AI pillar is making Vanta the intelligence layer for security and compliance work, wherever that work starts. We build the AI products and foundations that work across Vanta: a cohesive first-party Vanta Agent experience, headless surfaces like MCP and CLI that bring Vanta into tools like Claude Code and Codex, and the shared capabilities that let every team ship high-trust AI products. This role sits behind Vanta’s customer-facing AI experiences. Today, every team shipping AI features has to answer the same hard questions on their own: how to define quality, how to evaluate it, and how to know a change is safe to ship. You will turn those answers into shared foundations, so the AI experiences our customers rely on get better and more trustworthy over time.

Requirements

Have 8+ years of product management experience, including platform, infrastructure, or technically deep products
Have hands-on experience building with LLMs and AI agents, and understand how evals, observability, and quality signals drive systematic improvement in AI products
Bring strong user empathy: you get close to customer problems and bring that clarity back to the team
Know how to run foundational products like a product, with adoption goals, feedback loops, and prioritization grounded in what your users need
Earn credibility with senior engineers and hold your own in deeply technical design discussions
Use coding agents daily, and stay deeply curious about where models and agent tooling are going
Think in systems: you can reason about how evaluation, observability, and infrastructure choices compound across many teams and customer experiences
Thrive in ambiguity in a fast-moving AI space, leading with the problem and the process rather than a fixed answer
Communicate with clarity and influence, both written and verbal, with team members, stakeholders, and executives
Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact.

Responsibilities

Own the strategy and roadmap for Vanta’s core AI capabilities: the agent harness and the AI quality and evaluation stack
Live in agent traces to build intuition for how customers actually use our AI products, and turn that into the highest-leverage improvements
Make Vanta’s AI products win on quality: build golden datasets, automated evaluators aligned to expert judgment, and self-serve tooling so PMs, subject-matter experts, and designers can run evals without an engineer in the loop
Scale the agent harness: shape the core capabilities Vanta’s agents are built on, making clear tradeoffs across cost, latency, reliability, and safety
Set the quality bar teams adopt for evals, launch readiness, and observability, and drive adoption without becoming a gatekeeper
Partner closely with EPD teams across Vanta, and with the AI pillar’s other teams, to turn proven patterns into shared capabilities
Help define and shape Vanta’s product team culture as we grow

Benefits

Industry-competitive salary and equity
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans
16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents
Health & wellness stipend
Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office
Family planning benefits
Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting
Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time
11 company-paid holidays
Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!