Director of Product Management - Agentic Platform Enablement Experience (APEX)

• Own end-to-end product strategy, roadmap, and launch criteria for the APEX platform surfaces (agent SDK, tool use and orchestration, developer platform, autonomy and trust UX) across a 1-6 quarter horizon; contribute to the portfolio strategy above it

• Set and own launch-readiness criteria for non-deterministic systems in partnership with Engineering, Security, Research, and Design; make the ship vs hold call yourself

• Define the autonomy spectrum per capability (human-in-the-loop, AI-assisted, agentic) and the trust and control experience that makes it legible to the people using it

• Identify and mitigate misuse and risk pre-launch; define the monitoring, audit trail, and rollback that ships with every autonomous capability

• Personally build prototypes, scripts, and evaluation harnesses to test product decisions, working inside engineering and product repos and internal SDKs as a peer user

• Be a daily, hands-on user of the platform you own; file precise, implementable bug reports and behavior-change requests

• Instrument adoption, quality, and safety metrics from day one; run experiments and A/B tests to prove impact rather than assert it

• Manage, coach, and develop a team of product managers; own development plans and performance conversations for each PM, and raise the craft bar for technical, data-driven product judgment on agentic systems

• Hire and develop AI-fluent, technically credible product managers; partner with your leader on staffing plans, resourcing needs, and headcount justification

• Translate vision and portfolio strategy into sequenced, actionable roadmaps tied to business OKRs; own domain-level OKRs and report clearly on progress, risk, and trade-offs

• Make build/buy/partner decisions for capabilities within APEX, with explicit ROI reasoning

• Build trusted relationships with peers in Engineering, Design, Data, Security, Marketing, and GTM; secure cross-functional alignment on the APEX strategy and keep it coherent with adjacent domains

• Ensure responsible AI, ethics, compliance, and legal reviews are completed for products in your domain, following company standards

• Represent the platform internally and externally: enablement, developer relations, launch communications, and public launches that build credibility for Pax8 in the agentic space

• Use AI tools and agents in daily work, and model that practice for the team

• At least eight to ten (8 - 10) years of experience in product management or an equivalent role

• At least three (3) years of experience leading product managers, including experience growing a team

• Engineering background required: prior professional experience as a software engineer, or an equivalent track record driving technical product direction; comfortable writing code personally at prototype quality (prototypes, scripts, eval harnesses) without handing it to an engineer first

• Track record delivering product capabilities on a developer-focused platform (APIs, SDKs, CLIs, developer tools), backed by pointable evidence: launch posts, press coverage, changelogs, or documentation you shipped

• Track record of leading multiple products that drive measurable outcomes, and of leading a significant product, platform, automation, or process transformation

• Data-driven by nature: designs and runs experiments, instruments adoption and quality metrics from day one, and can show a record of moving them, not just launching features

• Scrupulous about value for Pax8 and our partners; able to articulate and defend expected ROI

• Excellent communication, organizational, and people skills; can present a clear narrative to senior leadership

• Comfortable with ambiguity; adapts quickly and keeps the team oriented when priorities shift

• Deep, firsthand fluency with how frontier models and agentic systems behave - tool use, planning, multi-step execution, and common failure modes - and with the current agentic platform landscape (agent SDKs, computer-use interfaces, orchestration frameworks)

• Able to read model evals and capability reports directly and translate them into launch bars, acceptance criteria, and roadmap decisions

• Sets safety, authority, and escalation boundaries for autonomous capability, and can defend those boundaries to engineering, security, and executive audiences

• Reached via Breadth (coherence across several interdependent, complex product areas) or Depth (sole expert in one hard, fast-moving product problem) - same level, either route

• Daily experience with tools like Claude, Microsoft Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Atlassian AI, Figma (design collaboration and AI product research), Pendo (AI product analytics and research collaboration) - with a working view of where each fits in the product workflow

• Solid understanding of AI capabilities and limitations, including cost, latency, and quality trade-offs

• Use enterprise-approved AI tools for daily productivity, and redirect the team away from unapproved tools

• Apply data classification and privacy principles when using AI, and hold the team to the same

• Practice responsible AI: recognize bias, fairness, and transparency requirements and build them into acceptance criteria

• Effective prompting and context-setting - clear instructions, context, iterative refinement - and share what works across the team

• Own the responsible AI ethics review for customer-facing AI products within your domain

• Measure AI product outcomes: accuracy, user satisfaction, adoption, and business impact

• Own and apply the company AI standard within your domain: human-in-the-loop, AI-assisted, and agentic decisions are deliberate, documented, and consistently applied

• AI Proficiency Expectation: Expert

• Multiple years of professional experience as a software engineer prior to moving into product, beyond the minimum engineering background required above

• Has personally built agentic evaluations (SWE-bench-style suites, LLM-judge rubrics, model-behavior regression harnesses), not just commissioned them

• Direct experience with research and design teams as a daily collaborator, not a periodic stakeholder

• Took a research result or internal prototype into a production product used at scale

• Defined a new product category or UX pattern with no established precedent (early agentic UX, autonomous coding tools, computer-use interfaces)

• External visibility in the agentic product space: talks, published product thinking, recognized contribution to industry framing of autonomy, trust, or agent UX

• The APEX product vision and strategy are clearly communicated and visibly aligned to business outcomes.

• Agentic capabilities ship with explicit authority, safety, and escalation boundaries, and with the monitoring, audit trail, and rollback that make them operable.

• Launch bars for non-deterministic systems are defined, applied consistently, and trusted by Engineering, Security, and executive leadership.

• Adoption, quality, and safety metrics exist from day one and show measurable movement.

• Build/buy/partner decisions within the domain are grounded in measurable value.

• The product management team is AI-fluent, technically credible, well-coached, and growing against clear development plans - with at least one PM ready for the next level.

• Engineering, Design, Data, Security, and senior stakeholders have clarity on priorities, trade-offs, and delivery expectations.

• Escalations to your leader are the exception, and they arrive with a recommendation attached.

• Be open, curious and committed to learning.

• B.A./B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent hands-on engineering experience.

• Product management certification preferred.

• Benefits

• Competitive compensation package

• Annual bonus opportunity

• Employee stock options

• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage

• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

• Flexible paid time off

• Paid volunteer time

• Wellness initiatives and employee assistance programs

• Continuous learning and development opportunities

• Dedicated professional development resources

• Collaborative remote-first culture

• Access to innovative technologies and AI-powered learning tools

At Pax8 we believe that your Total Rewards should include a benefits package that shows how much we value our greatest assets. All FTE Pax8 people enjoy the following benefits:

• 401(k) with Company Match

• Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Employer-Paid Life, AD&D, Short-Term Disability & Long-Term Disability Insurance

• Flexible Open PTO

• Paid Sick Leave

• Paid Parental Leave

• RTD EcoPass (eligible Colorado-based employees)

At Pax8 , we care deeply about building genuine, trust‑based relationships - starting with how we hire. To protect our business, our teams, and our customers, we use a range of measures throughout the recruitment process to help confirm authenticity and prevent fraud. These safeguards are designed to be fair, respectful, and proportionate, and may evolve as risks change. By applying, you acknowledge that we take steps to verify identity and representation during hiring. If you're applying as your authentic self, you have nothing to worry about - we're excited to meet you.

At Pax8 we believe that your Total Rewards should include a benefits package that shows how much we value our greatest assets. All FTE Pax8 people enjoy the following benefits:

• 401(k) with Company Match

• Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Employer-Paid Life, AD&D, Short-Term Disability & Long-Term Disability Insurance

• Flexible Open PTO

• Paid Sick Leave

• Paid Parental Leave

• RTD EcoPass (eligible Colorado-based employees)

Please take a moment to review our Proprietary Rights and Non-Competition Agreement - this document outlines important information about your rights and responsibilities if you join our team. Job Applicant Privacy Notice Originally posted on Himalayas