Staff Product Manager, AI Foundations

Role Description

As a Staff Product Manager, AI Foundations at Vanta, you will build the core AI capabilities that power Vanta’s AI product experiences:

• The agent harness our agents are built on
• The quality and evaluation stack that makes them trustworthy

The AI pillar is making Vanta the intelligence layer for security and compliance work, wherever that work starts. We build the AI products and foundations that work across Vanta:

• A cohesive first-party Vanta Agent experience
• Headless surfaces like MCP and CLI that bring Vanta into tools like Claude Code and Codex
• The shared capabilities that let every team ship high-trust AI products

This role sits behind Vanta’s customer-facing AI experiences. You will turn answers into shared foundations, so the AI experiences our customers rely on get better and more trustworthy over time.

What you’ll do:

• Own the strategy and roadmap for Vanta’s core AI capabilities
• Live in agent traces to build intuition for how customers actually use our AI products
• Make Vanta’s AI products win on quality
• Scale the agent harness
• Set the quality bar teams adopt for evals, launch readiness, and observability
• Partner closely with EPD teams across Vanta
• Help define and shape Vanta’s product team culture as we grow

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience, including platform, infrastructure, or technically deep products
• Hands-on experience building with LLMs and AI agents
• Strong user empathy
• Ability to run foundational products like a product
• Earn credibility with senior engineers
• Use coding agents daily
• Think in systems
• Thrive in ambiguity in a fast-moving AI space
• Communicate with clarity and influence
• Open to using AI to amplify skills and strengthen work

Requirements

• Experience with evaluation, observability, and quality signals driving systematic improvement in AI products

Benefits

• Industry-competitive salary and equity
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents
• Health & wellness stipend
• Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
• Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office
• Family planning benefits
• Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting
• Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time
• 11 company-paid holidays
• Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!
• Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney