Staff Technical Product Manager, AI Agent

Hercules•San Francisco, CA

2d•$100,000 - $250,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Hercules is seeking a senior or staff-level Product Manager to own their AI coding agent. The primary goal is to make the AI coding agent cheaper, faster, and more accurate. This role involves owning the entire context/harness system design, including system prompts, tools, memory, skills, summarization/compression, hooks, and codebase design. The Product Manager will also be responsible for Hercules' online and offline evaluations, leveraging user data and code repositories to guide experimentation.

Requirements

Incredibly strong across software fundamentals, technical ability to code.
Decent understanding of system design, architecture, data modeling, and API design.
Strong product sense and intuition for customer goals and novel solutions.
Strong design sense with a track record of building simple, delightful UX/UI.
Strong experience with AI context and harness engineering best practices (summarization/compression, prompting, prompt caching, subagents, memory, context management, tools, async tools, deferred tools, skills, etc.).
Experience wrestling with AI context and harness challenges at scale and having strong opinions about what works.
Ability to 10x workflow by being on the frontier of AI coding.
Willingness to work in US time zones (if remote).
Willingness to travel to the office regularly (if remote).

Nice To Haves

Experience with TypeScript, React, agent frameworks (like AI SDK), and eval platforms (like LangSmith).

Responsibilities

Make Hercules' AI coding agent cheaper, faster, and more accurate.
Own Hercules' entire context/harness system design (system prompt, tools, memory, skills, summarization/compression, hooks, codebase design, etc.).
Own Hercules' online and offline evaluations.
Leverage user data (100k+ users, 200k+ code repos, millions of chat threads) to guide experimentation.