Founding Product Manager, Agents

The role

The Founding PM for Agents will own the builder and runtime for agents and skills. You will work directly with the CPO to own the roadmap from discovery through shipped product.

What you will do

• Own the builder including natural language to working agent, self improvement, versioning, and sharing
• Own the runtime including event-based triggers, scheduling, model routing, and agent delegation
• Drive growth through Slack Agents, time-to-first-working-agent, and the self-serve path
• Define how product telemetry makes agents better over time
• Serve both engineers and non-technical builders through direct discovery
• Make decisions, prioritize, and ship with engineers weekly

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in product management
• 3+ years on developer tools, platform, or builder/automation products
• Founder or early-PM experience
• Shipped 0 to 1 builder or automation surfaces
• Grasp of PLG and bottoms-up growth: activation, time-to-value, and sharing loops
• Technical depth: read code and understand API/SDK design, agent frameworks, and how agents call tools
• Run your own discovery calls
• Strong writing for clear PRDs
• AI-native: build with agents daily and have opinions on how they should be created, orchestrated, and improved

Nice to have

• Hands-on building of MCP, skills, and how agents call tools and each other in production
• Experience with workflow or agent orchestration, triggers, or scheduling systems
• A track record turning a builder product into a growth engine

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Paid vacation
• Paid sick leave
• Paid parental leave
• Budget for conferences, courses, and certifications in AI, enterprise software, and customer success
• Choice of laptop and accessories
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
• Customer interaction opportunities

About the company

Runlayer is a platform for MCPs, Skills, and Agents providing security, governance, and observability for organizations using AI. The team has built AI Actions for OpenAI and shipped Zapier Agents to millions of users.