Staff Product Manager, Agent Primitives

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Product Manager, Agent Primitives based in Canada. We are seeking an experienced Staff Product Manager to shape the next generation of platform capabilities for AI agents and intelligent applications. In this role, you will define the strategy and roadmap for agent-specific primitives, helping developers build AI-powered systems that are more reliable, scalable, intuitive, and efficient. You will work closely with engineering, design, customer-facing teams, and the developer community to transform emerging needs into innovative product capabilities. Combining deep technical understanding with strong product judgment, you will navigate complex challenges involving distributed systems, orchestration, reliability, latency, and cost. You will drive discovery, validate product opportunities, and deliver solutions that improve the developer experience across open-source and cloud environments. This remote opportunity is ideal for a strategic, hands-on product leader who thrives in fast-moving environments and wants to influence how AI applications are built and operated. Accountabilities - Own the product strategy, vision, and roadmap for agent primitives, identifying high-impact opportunities to evolve platform capabilities for AI-driven workloads. - Develop a deep understanding of the challenges faced by AI agent builders and identify ways to make agent development faster, more intuitive, reliable, and powerful. - Define product hypotheses and translate ambiguous market signals, customer feedback, and emerging technical trends into clear product strategies. - Explore new abstractions and platform capabilities for agent execution, orchestration, state management, and durability, accounting for varying latency, cost, and reliability requirements. - Lead product discovery through customer conversations, field insights, and engagement with the open-source developer community.

- Translate validated opportunities into actionable requirements for APIs, SDKs, integrations, and platform features. - Partner closely with engineering and design teams to communicate user needs, guide technical trade-offs, and support effective product decisions. - Drive product delivery from initial discovery and definition through launch, adoption measurement, and iterative improvement. - Establish and communicate product positioning, feature messaging, launch narratives, and developer-facing guidance for technical audiences. - Enable sales and marketing teams with the product knowledge and messaging needed to communicate value effectively and support customer adoption. - Balance the needs of open-source developers, cloud customers, and enterprise users operating mission-critical production workloads. - Monitor product adoption, gather feedback, and use measurable outcomes to refine the roadmap and maximize customer value. - Collaborate across organizational boundaries, maintaining a strong sense of ownership and moving quickly from ideas to execution. Requirements: - At least 8 years of product management experience, ideally with a strong track record in technical or developer-focused products. - Experience working with platform products, infrastructure, developer tools, or similarly complex technical solutions. - Background in a startup, high-growth company, or another fast-paced environment characterized by ambiguity, rapid iteration, and evolving priorities. - Strong technical understanding of distributed systems, workflow and orchestration systems, event-driven architectures, APIs, SDKs, or comparable platform abstractions. - Ability to evaluate API semantics, system failure modes, state management, reliability, scalability, and infrastructure cost trade-offs.