Product Manager, Hermes Agent

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.
• Email [email protected] with the following information: The role you are applying for in the subject Resume or CV Cover letter A portfolio showcasing your work