Product Manager, Agent Development - Public Sector

The role

You will build and ship enterprise-grade AI agents for government institutions. You will partner with engineers and public sector customers to discover needs, define product strategy, and manage outcomes from concept through production.

What you will do

• Build enterprise-grade AI agents for government institutions
• Partner with engineers and public sector customers to build and ship AI agents
• Conduct ground-up discovery with federal and state institutions
• Identify and prioritize new opportunities for AI agents
• Engage with public sector leaders and working teams as a trusted advisor
• Translate mission goals into product strategy, roadmap, and success definitions
• Coordinate across engineering, design, research, security, and operations
• Shape the platform and public sector roadmap
• Partner with public sector leadership on market strategy and product investments

Required qualifications

• 5-7+ years of experience developing highly technical products
• Experience in Product Management or a similar product development role at or above the level of Senior Product Manager
• Passion for public sector work
• Comfort working directly with customers to understand needs and navigate complex organizations
• Experience crafting and tailoring messages for different audiences
• Ability to communicate highly technical concepts to non-technical and technical audiences
• Strong product judgment
• Track record of driving ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives from discovery through launch
• A degree in a technical or related field, or equivalent professional experience

Nice to have

• Experience building or deploying AI/LLM products
• Familiarity with evaluation, retrieval, prompt engineering, or agent tooling
• Experience with government technology or working with public sector institutions
• Understanding of procurement, regulation, security, accessibility, and patterns of partnership
• Track record of operating in ambiguity, such as a founding team or new initiative
• Coding experience with React, TypeScript, and Go
• Experience prototyping technical products directly with engineers
• An MBA or equivalent professional experience at the intersection of technology, operations, and strategy
• Past roles that involved working directly with end customers to influence software development

Benefits

• Flexible (unlimited) paid time off
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family
• Life insurance and disability benefits
• Retirement plan dependent on country of employment
• Parental leave
• Fertility and family building benefits
• Lunch, snacks, and coffee for onsite work
• Discretionary benefit stipend
• Free alphorn lessons
• Equity plans for eligible full-time employees

About the company

Sierra is a platform for customer-facing AI agents. It was co-founded by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor.