Product Manager, Software Factory

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

We are looking for a Product Manager to join our Product team. You will own Software Factory, a new product area that puts AI agents on every stage of the development loop — triaging an issue, planning it, writing the code, and checking the result — while keeping people on the judgment calls. Human time and human attention has become the bottleneck, and the opportunity is to move towards automation of continuous software maintenance and improvement. You will define how agents help fix bugs, implement features, improve performance, mitigate security issues, improve code quality, and increase test coverage. You will report to the Product Lead and will be located in San Francisco, CA (hybrid).

What it asks for · 6

• You've worked on developer tooling products, ideally CI/CD, code review, developer productivity, or AI coding tools
• You have deep hands-on experience with coding agents and a substantiated point of view on where they succeed and where they fail today
• You have the technical depth to reason about agent orchestration, evals, context management, and sandboxed execution
• You have owned a platform area that other product teams build on, and set technical direction others adopted
• You have experience with products whose output is probabilistic, including defining acceptance bars and measuring quality over time
• You have experience working directly with design partners or Enterprise customers on adopting new engineering workflows

Also a plus

• Have worked on multi-agent systems or agent orchestrators.
• Have worked on evals or systematic measurement of AI output quality
• Have worked on products adopted bottom-up by individual developers before spreading to teams
• Have run or operated a large open-source project

What the job covers

• Own the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for Software Factory.
• Define the workflow model — how work moves through classification, analysis, implementation, and review, and where the handoff back to a person belongs
• Own the trust and quality bar: evals, verification, retry behavior, and what the factory is permitted to touch without human approval
• Define how factories integrate with where engineering work already lives, including GitHub and Linear, and with agent harnesses such as Codex and Claude Code. And define new dedicated surfaces for how to interact with factory agents.
• Shape the memory and context model that lets a factory accumulate real knowledge of a repository over time
• Work directly with design partners and Enterprise customers adopting factories against their own codebases

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

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• agents7×
• factory5×
• code4×
• define4×
• quality4×
• worked4×
• developer3×
• evals3×
• experience3×
• human3×
• review3×
• status3×
• adopted2×
• area2×
• bar2×

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