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Must have7
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
Nice to have4
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
Eligibility1
Meaningful working-hours overlap with the US team
Skills
Hermes Agent
AI
machine learning
open source
About the role
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.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
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Own the Hermes Agent roadmap, working with the Head of Product to turn product direction into a clear, prioritized plan.
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Run day-to-day product execution, from defining problems and writing specs to coordinating releases and checking whether shipped features deliver the intended result.
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Use Hermes Agent daily. Understand where it succeeds, where it breaks down and what would make people trust it with more of their work.
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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.
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Turn community feedback, user conversations, issues and usage data into product decisions. Distinguish recurring needs from one-off requests and make the tradeoffs clear.
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Define how agent capabilities become useful product experiences, including how Hermes uses tools, develops reusable skills and works with different models.
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Partner with Engineering and Research to evaluate agent behavior. Set acceptance criteria that account for task completion, reliability, speed and cost.
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Keep releases focused and moving. Make scope decisions, resolve dependencies and surface risks early enough for the team to act.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Requirements
You should bring:
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Product management experience at a company, with a track record of taking products or substantial features from an ambiguous problem through launch and iteration.
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A software engineering background. You can read code, understand system behavior and work through technical tradeoffs with engineers.
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Hands-on experience building or shipping AI agent products. You understand how models, tools, context and evaluations affect the user experience.
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Strong product judgment. You can identify the most important problem, make a clear decision and explain what should wait.
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The ability to lead as an individual contributor, creating clarity and momentum across a team without relying on reporting lines.
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Excellent written communication. You can write a spec engineers can build from and a product update the rest of the company can understand.
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Comfort owning both product direction and the daily work required to ship on a small, fast-moving team.
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Meaningful working-hours overlap with the US team.
Nice to have
It would also help to have:
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Experience building an open source product or working closely with a developer community.
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Experience improving onboarding, activation and retention for a product people choose and adopt themselves.
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Experience designing evaluations for agent reliability and real-world task completion.
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Contributions to the AI ecosystem, or tools, workflows and projects you have built with Hermes Agent.