--- title: Staff Technical Product Manager, AI Agent at Hercules description: Hercules is hiring for the Staff Technical Product Manager, AI Agent role in San Francisco, CA. See the full description and apply. type: job url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/staff-technical-product-manager-ai-agent-at-hercules-01a10f5d-d936-7afc-b4df-488f9cb0bbac date: 2026-10-06T04:19:11Z og_description: Join Hercules as Staff Technical Product Manager, AI Agent in San Francisco, CA. Pays $100K–$250K per year. Full-time, hybrid role. og_image: https://www.foundrole.com/og/jhk14u.png breadcrumbs: - label: Home url: https://www.foundrole.com/ - label: Search url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs --- | | | |---|---| | **Company** | hercules.app | | **Location** | San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) | | **Salary** | $100K/yr - $250K/yr | | **Type** | Full Time | | **Posted** | Oct 04, 2026 | ## Description **What are we looking for?** [Hercules](https://hercules.app) is looking for a senior or staff level product manager to own our AI coding agent.   **What will you do?** - Your #1 and only goal is to make Hercules' AI coding agent cheaper, faster, and more accurate (our pareto frontier) - You will own Hercules' entire context/harness system design (which includes system prompt, tools, memory, skills, summarization/compression, hooks, codebase design etc) - You will own Hercules' online evals and offline evals - You will leverage our 100k+ users, 200k+ code repos, and millions of chat threads to guide your experimentation.   **What skills do we expect you to have?** We expect candidates to be incredibly strong across all of the following areas: - **Software fundamentals**: You are building an AI coding agent. We expect you to be technical and able to code. We expect you to have a decent understanding of system design, architecture, data modeling, and API design. In saying this, you will work with an engineering counterpart to work on complex implementation - **Product sense**: strong intuition for the goals customers are trying to achieve and novel solutions to help them achieve them - **Design sense:** Track record of building simple, delightful UX/UI that makes it easy for customers to achieve their goals - **AI context and harness engineering**: strong experience with the most up to date context and harness engineering best practices like summarization/compression, prompting, prompt caching, subagents, memory, context management, tools, async tools, deferred tools, skills, etc * Yes, we know this industry is evolving rapidly and the "best practices" change every week, but yes, we are still actively looking for someone who has wrestled with these challenges at scale and has strong opinions about what works and what doesn't - **Our core stack**: TypeScript, React, (some sort of agent framework like AI SDK), (some sort of eval platform like LangSmith) - **AI**: able to truly 10x your workflow by being on frontier of AI coding   **What’s Hercules’ stack?** - Technologies: Typescript, React, AI SDK, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, Tailwind, IaC (CDK, Terraform), Docker, Otel, Hono, Drizzle ORM, Temporal - Clouds: Cloudflare, AWS - AI Models: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google   **What are Hercules’ operating principles?** Hercules’ operating principles guide how we make decisions every day. We take them very seriously. Most of the principles can be learned on the job, however, we do specifically filter for the following principles in our hiring process: 1. **We ship**. We ship fast, iterate, and correct mistakes quickly. Our bias for action speeds up our learning and delights our customers. 2. **We strive for excellence.** Doing things well is in our DNA. We have good taste. We get the details right. Our outputs are exceptionally simple and self-serve. We’re proud of our work. 3. **We are hungry**. We are willing to work hard and break through walls to achieve the outcomes we want. We are willing to operate at any level to get things done.   **Is Hercules in-office or remote?** Hercules founding team works in-office in San Francisco (Kearny and Bush). We have a very strong preference for in office. We are open to remote for exceptional candidates who are willing to 1) work in US time zones and 2) travel to the office regularly.   **What are Hercules’ benefits?** - Unlimited AI token budget - Take what you need vacation policy - Healthcare, vision, and dental - Daily lunches, dinners and snacks in the office - We guarantee you will do the best work of your career here   **What’s the compensation?** $100k-$250k + equity (variable based on seniority, equity, and location) ## Skills - Temporal - Amazon Web Services - Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - Systems Design - Caching - Prompt Engineering - Docker - Artificial Intelligence - UI/UX Design - PostgreSQL - Anthropic Claude - ClickHouse - Terraform - Cloudflare - OpenAI - Text Summarization - Hono - Tailwind CSS - AI-Assisted Coding - LLM Evals - AWS Cloud Development Kit (Cdk) - Software Development Kit (Sdk) - TypeScript - AI Agent Frameworks - Redis - API Design - Data Modeling - Product Sense - Asynchronous Programming - LangSmith - OpenTelemetry - Drizzle ORM - Pareto Analysis ## Related - [Management & Leadership jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/management-and-leadership?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Product Management jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/management-and-leadership/product-management?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Product Manager jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/management-and-leadership/product-management/product-manager?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Technical Product Manager jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/management-and-leadership/product-management/product-manager/technical-product-manager?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Browse all companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown) ## Explore this job market - [California](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/california?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 264806 jobs - [Software Products](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors/technology/software-products?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 117493 jobs - [San Francisco, CA](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/california/san-francisco?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 26836 jobs ## Related pages - [California](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/california?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 264806 jobs - [Software Products](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors/technology/software-products?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 117493 jobs - [San Francisco, CA](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/california/san-francisco?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 26836 jobs ## Browse - [Companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs by country](https://www.foundrole.com/locations?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs in the United States by state and city](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [H1B sponsors by location](https://www.foundrole.com/h1b-sponsors?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [H1B salaries](https://www.foundrole.com/h1b-salaries?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Sectors and industries](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs by career field](https://www.foundrole.com/careers?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Latest jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/latest?utm_source=ai_markdown)