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title: 'Founding Product Manager, Agents at Runlayer'
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# Founding Product Manager, Agents at Runlayer

- **Company:** Runlayer
- **Location:** New York, NY / United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-06-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/runlayer/771c67d0-07d1-4729-b15c-a72983b9d22a/application

**Skills:** Product Management, Developer Tools, Platform Products, Builder/Automation Products, PLG, Bottoms-up Growth, API/SDK Design, Agent Frameworks, Product Telemetry, PRD Writing, MCP, Skills, Workflow orchestration, Agent orchestration, Triggers, Scheduling systems

> As the Founding Product Manager for Agents, you will own the end-to-end lifecycle of AI agents and skills, from discovery to shipped product. You will drive growth, define product telemetry, and work directly with the CPO to build the platform for enterprise AI agents.

## Job description

## ABOUT RUNLAYER

AI is transforming how every company operates, but most enterprises are stuck. They want to move fast with AI Agents, tools, and workflows, but they can't do it safely. We're fixing that.

Our team built AI Actions for OpenAI, shipped Zapier Agents to millions of users, and launched the first remote MCP server with Anthropic. We helped establish the protocol, and now we're building the platform enterprises need to actually put AI to work.

Runlayer is one platform for MCPs, Skills, and Agents: purpose-built security, fine-grained governance, and complete observability so organizations can go all-in on AI across the entire company without the risk. We just raised a $30M Series A led by Felicis, with participation from Khosla Ventures, bringing our total raised to $42M. Already trusted by Gusto, Instacart, Opendoor, dbt Labs, and Decagon.

## ABOUT THE ROLE

As the Founding PM for Agents, you'll own where agents and skills get built, shipped, and run at scale, the growth engine of our customers. That means the fastest path from an idea to a working agent or skill, for engineers and non-technical builders alike, plus everything that happens once it's built: agents running on schedules and triggers, calling each other, governed by Runlayer underneath, and getting better over time.

You'll work directly with the CPO, owning the roadmap from discovery through shipped product.

## WHY YOU'LL THRIVE HERE

- Impact: Build the tools that turn one builder into a team, and a team into an org running on agents.
- Excellence: Work closely with founders who helped establish MCP and ship fast.
- Ownership: Own the builder and the runtime end to end, from discovery through shipped product.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Own the builder: natural language to working agent, self improvement, versioning, and sharing.
- Own the runtime: event-based triggers, scheduling, model routing, and agent delegation.
- Drive growth: Slack Agents, time-to-first-working-agent, and the self-serve path that turns one builder into a team into an org.
- Define how product telemetry makes agents better over time.
- Serve both audiences: the engineer who wants SDK depth and the non-technical builder who wants natural language. Run discovery directly with both.
- Make decisions, prioritize, and ship with engineers weekly.

## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- 8+ years in product management, including 3+ on developer tools, platform, or builder/automation products.
- Founder or early-PM experience; you've built product processes from zero.
- Shipped 0→1 builder or automation surfaces, with a grasp of PLG and bottoms-up growth: activation, time-to-value, and sharing loops.
- Technical depth: you read code and understand API/SDK design, agent frameworks, and how agents call tools.
- Customer obsession: you run your own discovery calls and can name five customers from your last role by first name.
- Strong writing; you make your case in clear PRDs, not slide decks.
- AI-native: you build with agents daily and have real opinions on how they should be created, orchestrated, and improved.

## BONUS QUALIFICATIONS

- Hands-on building of MCP, skills, and how agents call tools and each other in production.
- Experience with workflow or agent orchestration, triggers, or scheduling systems.
- A track record turning a builder product into a growth engine (self-serve, templates,

## WHAT WE OFFER

We provide a competitive package designed to attract and retain top talent who can work effectively with enterprise customers.

- Competitive salary and equity — compensation that reflects your expertise and customer-facing responsibilities.
- Paid time off — paid vacation, paid sick leave, and paid parental leave.
- Professional development — budget for conferences, courses, and certifications in AI, enterprise software, and customer success.
- Top-tier equipment — your choice of laptop and accessories to create your ideal work environment.
- Health benefits — comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
- Customer interaction opportunities — work directly with innovative companies and see the immediate impact of your work.

Not quite the right fit? Reach out to careers@runlayer.com careers@anysource.com with details about your experience and interests.

## About Runlayer

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Runlayer provides an AI control plane that enables enterprises to securely govern, deploy, and monitor AI agents and tools across their organization.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Andrew Berman (CEO), Tal Peretz, Vitor Balocco

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise AI Security & Governance / AI Infrastructure
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (engineering, security, IT, operations, and business teams)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: Give every employee the golden path to use agents, then watch adoption multiply. AI enablement, security, and control in one platform.

## Products & Services
- **Runlayer Agents**: On-demand agents running on Runlayer infrastructure. Employees can create agents for recurring work while platform owners keep approved tools, scoped credentials, policy, and audit in place.
- **Runlayer Catalog**: Reusable skills and plugins teams can publish and share with agents, giving AI capabilities an owner, approval state, dependency context, and usage history.
- **MCP Gateway**: Approved MCP (Model Context Protocol) access across AI clients and third-party agents, routing requests through identity, policy, and audit controls.
- **Runlayer Watch**: Shadow AI discovery and response tool that finds unmanaged MCPs, skills, plugins, and client configs.
- **Runlayer Guard**: Execution-time security checks for AI tool use, inspecting risky tool behavior before sensitive actions continue.
- **Agent IAM & Governance**: Actor-aware access control for AI usage, evaluating who is acting, which client or agent is involved, and what conditions apply.
- **ROI & Observability**: Adoption metrics, decisions, findings, and audit history showing what teams use and where access is blocked.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $41M ($11M Seed in November 2025, $30M Series A in June 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Felicis (lead), Khosla Ventures (lead). Backed by the best minds in AI & security, including the Head of Security from Cursor.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Raised $30M Series A in June 2026 from Felicis & Khosla Ventures
  - Named to "Rising in Cyber 2026"
  - Named the default for AI-native teams like Instacart, Gusto, Lemonade, dbt Labs, and AngelList
  - Headcount of 24 employees with +11.5% monthly growth
  - Operating in 5 countries (US, Poland, Israel, Spain, Canada)
  - Founding team has raised over $200M cumulatively and built AI at scale (Zapier MCP, Zapier Agents)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founding team expertise**: Co-founders built and launched Zapier MCP (Zapier's fastest growing product) and Zapier Agents, used by millions. They have firsthand experience solving the exact problem Runlayer addresses.
- **Comprehensive platform**: Unlike a simple MCP gateway, Runlayer adds catalog, identity controls, reusable capabilities, observability, and agent workflows — making governed agent work practical across the entire company.
- **Enterprise-ready**: Supports SSO/SCIM, self-hosted deployment, MDM rollout, and a sophisticated policy model that maps access to users, groups, roles, attributes, agent accounts, clients, tools, resources, and runtime conditions.
- **18,000+ pre-built MCPs**: Start with a massive library of MCPs for common enterprise tools, plus the ability to add internal MCPs.
- **Shadow AI discovery**: Unique capability to surface unmanaged AI usage from agents, MCPs, skills, plugins, and client configs.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling the platform to meet enterprise demand, expanding the agent runtime and catalog, deepening security and governance capabilities, and growing the go-to-market team.
- **Direction for growth**: Becoming the default AI control plane for enterprises rolling out AI agents across engineering, security, IT, operations, and business teams.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Values include "Shipping," "Built this before," and leveraging AI internally. The team is described as "AI experts" who have built AI at scale. Emphasis on practical, real-world problem solving.
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Hybrid/Remote roles available. Offices in NYC and San Francisco. Some roles are specifically NYC or SF-based.
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: 
  - Founding team with deep AI expertise (Zapier, Nanit, Vowel)
  - Working on cutting-edge AI infrastructure and security problems
  - Small, high-impact team (24 employees) with significant funding ($41M)
  - Open roles across Engineering (Security, SRE, Platform, Identity, Product), Product (Design, Engineering), and GTM (Field Engineering, Demand Gen, Forward Deployed Engineer, Product Marketing, Enablement, Creative Director, Account Executive, Developer Relations)
  - Talent sourced from top companies: Zapier (6 employees), EQ Fitness, Rilla, Taboola, Nanit, Oso, Intel, GLG, C3 AI, Permit.io

## Sources
1. [runlayer.com](https://www.runlayer.com/)
2. [runlayer.com/about](https://www.runlayer.com/about)
3. [runlayer.com/platform](https://www.runlayer.com/platform)
4. [linkedin.com/company/runlayer](https://www.linkedin.com/company/runlayer)
5. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/runlayer)
6. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/runlayer](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/runlayer)

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