Staff Technical Product Manager, AI Agent

About the role

Hercules is looking for a senior or staff level product manager to own our AI coding agent.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

• 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