# Staff Product Manager, AI Foundations

**Company:** [Vanta](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/vanta)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Product Management
**Salary:** $243k – $286k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** LLMs, AI Agents, agent harnesses, ai evaluation, golden datasets, automated evaluators, Observability, quality signals, coding agents, Infrastructure, Product Roadmapping
**Posted:** 2026-08-12

> Leads strategy and adoption for the shared AI foundations behind Vanta’s agent experiences, including agent infrastructure, evaluation, quality, and observability. The role requires 8+ years of product management experience, hands-on LLM and agent experience, and strong technical systems thinking.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own the strategy and roadmap for Vanta’s core AI capabilities, including the agent harness and AI quality and evaluation stack.
- Analyze agent traces to understand customer usage and prioritize high-leverage improvements.
- Build golden datasets, automated evaluators aligned to expert judgment, and self-serve evaluation tooling for product managers, subject-matter experts, and designers.
- Scale the agent harness by shaping core capabilities and balancing cost, latency, reliability, and safety.
- Establish quality standards for evaluations, launch readiness, and observability, and drive adoption across teams.
- Partner with EPD teams and AI pillar teams to turn proven patterns into shared capabilities.
- Help define and shape Vanta’s product team culture.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of product management experience, including experience with platform, infrastructure, or technically deep products.
- Hands-on experience building with large language models and AI agents.
- Understanding of how evaluations, observability, and quality signals drive systematic improvement in AI products.
- Strong user empathy and the ability to translate customer problems into product direction.
- Experience operating foundational products with adoption goals, feedback loops, and user-grounded prioritization.
- Credibility with senior engineers and comfort participating in deeply technical design discussions.
- Daily experience using coding agents and curiosity about evolving models and agent tooling.
- Systems-thinking ability across evaluation, observability, and infrastructure choices.
- Ability to thrive in ambiguity and lead with clear problem definition and process.
- Clear written and verbal communication with team members, stakeholders, and executives.
- Curiosity, willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary: $243,000–$286,000.
- Equity.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with employee-only premiums covered for most medical plans.
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave for all new parents.
- Health and wellness stipend.
- Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipends.
- Commuter benefits for team members reporting to the San Francisco and New York City offices.
- Family planning benefits.
- Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting.
- Flexible paid time off and 80 hours of sick time.
- 11 company-paid holidays.
- Virtual team-building activities, lunch-and-learns, and company-wide events.

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