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 recruiting@nousresearch.com with the following information: - The role you are applying for in the subject - Resume or CV - Cover letter - A portfolio showcasing your work