Technical Product Manager
US$100,000 – US$250,000 / yr base salary
Posted 4 Oct 2026
Advertised as “Staff Technical Product Manager, AI Agent”
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- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Hybrid
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | US$100,000 – US$250,000 / yr |
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What are we looking for?
Hercules is looking for a senior or staff level product manager to own our AI coding agent.
What will you do?
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Your #1 and only goal is to make Hercules' AI coding agent cheaper, faster, and more accurate (our pareto frontier)
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You will own Hercules' entire context/harness system design (which includes system prompt, tools, memory, skills, summarization/compression, hooks, codebase design etc)
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You will own Hercules' online evals and offline evals
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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:
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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
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Product sense: strong intuition for the goals customers are trying to achieve and novel solutions to help them achieve them
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Design sense: Track record of building simple, delightful UX/UI that makes it easy for customers to achieve their goals
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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
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Our core stack: TypeScript, React, (some sort of agent framework like AI SDK), (some sort of eval platform like LangSmith)
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AI: able to truly 10x your workflow by being on frontier of AI coding
What’s Hercules’ stack?