Staff Technical Product Manager, AI Agent

Hercules; United States; On-site; USD 100,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited AI token budget

Take what you need vacation policy

Healthcare, vision, and dental

Daily lunches, dinners and snacks

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC seeks a senior/staff product manager to own the AI coding agent, driving design, evaluation and experimentation. You will own the system harness—prompts, tools, memory, and codebase architecture—and steer online/offline evaluation programs to push performance, cost and speed improvements.

You will drive product direction with strong technical chops, collaborating with engineering and leveraging our large user base and data assets to iterate and optimize the agent

Qualifications

• Strong technical foundation with ability to code and design systems.
• Excellent product sense and ability to translate customer goals into solutions.
• Track record of building simple, delightful UX/UI.
• Experience with AI context/harness engineering best practices.

Responsibilities

• Own the AI coding agent's overall architecture, prompts, tools, memory and integration.
• Own online and offline evals for the agent and its performance.
• Experiment at scale using large user and repository data to improve cost, speed and accuracy.

Skills

AI product management

System design

API design

Coding ability

UX design

Tools

AI SDK

LangSmith

OpenAI API

Job description

What are we looking for?

the company 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 the company' AI coding agent cheaper, faster, and more accurate (our pareto frontier)

• You will own the company' entire context/harness system design (which includes system prompt, tools, memory, skills, summarization/compression, hooks, codebase design etc)

• You will own the company' 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 the company 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 the company operating principles?

the company 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:

• We ship. We ship fast, iterate, and correct mistakes quickly. Our bias for action speeds up our learning and delights our customers.

• 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.

• 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 the company in-office or remote?

the company 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 the company 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)

Compensation Range: $100K - $250K