Product Manager, Hermes Agent

Nous Research; United States; Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Nous Research is seeking a Product Manager for Hermes Agent to own day-to-day direction and execution. You will work directly with the Co-Founder to decide what to build, set priorities, and ensure the engineering team ships features that improve user trust and usefulness.

You will own the Hermes Agent roadmap, run day-to-day product execution, and connect feedback to measurable product decisions. This role requires hands-on AI product experience and strong product judgment.

Qualifications

• Product management experience taking features from ambiguity to launch
• Software background enabling reading code and evaluating tradeoffs
• Hands-on experience shipping AI agent products
• Strong product judgment to prioritise problems
• Ability to lead as an IC creating clarity and momentum
• Excellent written communication for specs and updates
• Comfort owning direction and daily shipping on a small team
• Experience with working hours overlap with US team

Responsibilities

• Own the Hermes Agent roadmap and translate direction into a prioritized plan
• Run day-to-day product execution from problem definition to release coordination
• Use Hermes Agent daily to learn success, friction, and trust factors
• Own user journey from install to first useful task and sustained use
• Turn feedback and usage data into product decisions and tradeoffs
• Define how agent capabilities become usable experiences and reusable skills
• Collaborate with Engineering and Research to set acceptance criteria for task completion and reliability
• Keep releases focused, surface risks early, and manage dependencies
• Define metrics to measure usefulness and set priorities on roadmap and execution
• Prepare clear ship recaps and next steps for the team
• Collaborate with open source community and Hermes Enterprise to improve core agent

Skills

Product management

Software engineering background

AI agent product experience

Product judgment

Individual contributor leadership

Written communication

Ship on a fast-moving team

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

You will own the day-to-day product direction and execution for Hermes Agent, working directly with the Co-Founder to decide what we build, in what order and whether it works for the people using it. This is a hands-on role: you will connect product ambition to clear priorities, help engineering ship and stay close to the community using Hermes every day. Like every role here, this one is a mission, not a narrow lane.

In this role, you will:

• Own the Hermes Agent roadmap, working with the Head of Product to turn product direction into a clear, prioritized plan.

• Run day-to-day product execution, from defining problems and writing specs to coordinating releases and checking whether shipped features deliver the intended result.

• Use Hermes Agent daily. Understand where it succeeds, where it breaks down and what would make people trust it with more of their work.

• Own the user journey from installation and setup to a first useful task and sustained use. Identify friction and work with Engineering and Design to remove it.

• Turn community feedback, user conversations, issues and usage data into product decisions. Distinguish recurring needs from one-off requests and make the tradeoffs clear.

• Define how agent capabilities become useful product experiences, including how Hermes uses tools, develops reusable skills and works with different models.

• Partner with Engineering and Research to evaluate agent behavior. Set acceptance criteria that account for task completion, reliability, speed and cost.

• Keep releases focused and moving. Make scope decisions, resolve dependencies and surface risks early enough for the team to act.

• Define the metrics that show whether Hermes is becoming more useful, including activation, repeat use and successful task completion, and use them to set priorities.

• Keep the roadmap and execution plan current, with clear owners and status. Write simple recaps of what shipped, what is next, what is at risk and which decisions are needed.

• Collaborate with the open source community and the Hermes Enterprise team so improvements to the core agent support the people and organizations building on it.

You should bring:

• Product management experience at a company, with a track record of taking products or substantial features from an ambiguous problem through launch and iteration.

• A software engineering background. You can read code, understand system behavior and work through technical tradeoffs with engineers.

• Hands-on experience building or shipping AI agent products. You understand how models, tools, context and evaluations affect the user experience.

• Strong product judgment. You can identify the most important problem, make a clear decision and explain what should wait.

• The ability to lead as an individual contributor, creating clarity and momentum across a team without relying on reporting lines.

• Excellent written communication. You can write a spec engineers can build from and a product update the rest of the company can understand.

• Comfort owning both product direction and the daily work required to ship on a small, fast-moving team.

• Meaningful working-hours overlap with the US team.

It would also help to have:

• Experience building an open source product or working closely with a developer community.

• Experience improving onboarding, activation and retention for a product people choose and adopt themselves.

• Experience designing evaluations for agent reliability and real-world task completion.

• Contributions to the AI ecosystem, or tools, workflows and projects you have built with Hermes Agent.