Founding Product Manager, Control Plane

Runlayer; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

Paid time off

Conferences & training

Top-tier equipment

Health benefits

Customer impact

Job summary

Runlayer is hiring a Founding Product Manager for the Control Plane in New York. You will own the governance layer for the full agent lifecycle—MCPs, skills, plugins, and agents—across all surfaces an agent touches.

You’ll partner with the CPO to shape the roadmap from discovery to shipped product, driving enterprise adoption of AI with secure, observable governance at scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in product management, including security or infrastructure.
• Founder or early-PM experience; built processes from zero.
• Fluency with CISO/IT buyers and developers.
• Proficient with proxies, policy engines, OAuth/identity, and audit pipelines.
• Customer-obsessed with discovery calls and customer references.
• Strong writing; PRDs over slide decks.
• AI-native with opinions on governance of agents and tools.

Responsibilities

• Own the control‑plane surface: discovery, visibility, session controls, and agent IAM.
• Run discovery with security/IT buyers and developers, turning signals into a ranked roadmap.
• Make decisions, prioritize the roadmap, and ship with engineers weekly.

Skills

Product leadership

IAM / Security

Founding PM

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical depth

Written communication

AI governance

Job description

About Runlayer

AI is transforming how every company operates, but most enterprises are stuck. They want to move fast with AI Agents, tools, and workflows, but they can't do it safely. We're fixing that.

Our team built AI Actions for OpenAI, shipped Zapier Agents to millions of users, and launched the first remote MCP server with Anthropic. We helped establish the protocol, and now we're building the platform enterprises need to actually put MCP to work.

Runlayer is one platform for MCPs, Skills, and Agents: purpose-built security, fine-grained governance, and complete observability so organizations can go all-in on AI across the entire company without the risk. We just raised a $30M Series A led by Felicis, with participation from Khosla Ventures, bringing our total raised to $42M. Already trusted by Gusto, Instacart, Opendoor, dbt Labs, Cursor, and Decagon.

We're a team of 35, mostly engineers, shipping fast. Agent operators on Runlayer grew 5x in four weeks while human operators stayed flat. The shift to agentic work is already showing up in our own usage.

About the Role

As the Founding PM for the Control Plane, you'll own one governance plane for the full agent lifecycle: every MCP, skill, plugin, and agent, governed and observable across every surface an agent can touch. Today agents sprawl across every platform with little oversight; you'll build the one layer that sits between their agentic harnesses and the hundreds of SaaS apps their agents reach.

You’ll work directly with the CPO, owning the roadmap from discovery through shipped product.

Why You’ll Thrive Here

• Impact: Own the control plane that lets enterprises adopt AI agents without losing control.
• Excellence: Work closely with founders who helped establish MCP and ship fast.
• Ownership: Own the full control‑plane surface end to end, from discovery through shipped product.

What You’ll Do

• Own the control‑plane surface: discovery, visibility, deep session, real‑time controls, and agent IAM.
• Run discovery with security and IT buyers and the developers and agents who hit the proxy, turning signals into a ranked roadmap.
• Make decisions, prioritize the roadmap, and ship with engineers weekly.

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years in product management, including 3+ on security, infrastructure, or identity/IAM products.
• Founder or early‑PM experience; you’ve built product processes from zero.
• Fluency with the buyer/user split: the CISO/IT team who buys governance and the developer or agent who lives under it.
• Technical depth: you read code and reason about proxies, policy engines, OAuth/identity, and audit pipelines.
• Customer obsession: you run your own discovery calls and can name five customers from your last role by first name.
• Strong writing; you make your case in clear PRDs, not slide decks.
• AI‑native, with real opinions on how agents and tools should be governed.

Bonus Qualifications

• Hands‑on building of MCP and how agents call tools in production.
• Background in detection and response, DLP/PII/PHI, secrets/vault, or compliance‑driven enterprise sales (SOC 2, HIPAA, NIST).
• Shipped observability or policy products where winning meant covering more, in more detail, than anyone else.

What We Offer

We provide a competitive package designed to attract and retain top talent who can work effectively with enterprise customers.

• Competitive salary and equity — compensation that reflects your expertise and customer‑facing responsibilities.
• Paid time off — paid vacation, paid sick leave, and paid parental leave.
• Professional development — budget for conferences, courses, and certifications in AI, enterprise software, and customer success.
• Top‑tier equipment — your choice of laptop and accessories to create your ideal work environment.
• Health benefits — comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
• Customer interaction opportunities — work directly with innovative companies and see the immediate impact of your work.

Not quite the right fit? Reach out to [e-mail] with details about your experience and interests.