Senior Product Manager, Agent Ecosystem

About the role

You will own the strategy and execution of Vanta's external agent surfaces, positioning the company as the trusted compliance layer for AI agents. You will define how agents discover, access, and safely use Vanta capabilities in partnership with platform teams that own APIs and authentication. Your work will ensure that outcomes customers can complete in Vanta are equally achievable through MCP, CLI, and plugin interfaces. You will lead marketplace and plugin launches while aligning product, engineering, legal, security, and go-to-market stakeholders. You will build the developer-facing narrative that showcases how MCP and CLI unlock new workflows for agent platforms. You will partner with product partnerships and alliances to co-market with leading agent platforms and maintain awareness of the broader agent ecosystem. You will define adoption and quality metrics, using customer and product data to prioritize opportunities and iterate on the roadmap.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Own the strategy and roadmap for Vanta's agent ecosystem products across MCP, CLI, and marketplace plugins.
• Define how agents discover, access, and safely use Vanta capabilities while partnering closely with platform teams that own APIs and authentication.
• Hold outcome parity as a product principle, ensuring customer workflows completed in Vanta are possible through agent surfaces without compromise.
• Lead marketplace and plugin launches, coordinating alignment across product, engineering, legal, security, and go-to-market teams.
• Partner with engineering and design to ship secure, reliable developer products that meet the needs of agent workflows.
• Build the developer-facing marketing motion, including external agent documentation and customer stories that highlight MCP and CLI impact.
• Partner with the product partnerships and alliances team on co-marketing with agent platforms like Anthropic and OpenAI.
• Maintain a pulse on the agent ecosystem to ensure Vanta is embedded in key stacks used by AI agents.
• Define adoption and quality metrics, using customer and product data to prioritize initiatives and measure success.
• Translate complex product requirements into clear specifications for engineering and go-to-market teams.
• Evaluate emerging agent tooling and platforms to identify integration and partnership opportunities.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration across product, engineering, design, marketing, partnerships, legal, and security.
• Ensure product decisions balance customer needs, technical feasibility, and business outcomes.
• Continuously iterate on the agent ecosystem roadmap based on feedback, data, and market shifts.

Requirements

• 5+ years of product management experience, taking products from strategy through to shipped outcomes.
• Experience shipping developer-facing or programmatic products such as APIs, integrations, plugins, SDKs, or CLI tools.
• Technical fluency with APIs, authentication, and developer tools in the context of agent workflows.
• Hands-on experience building with AI and agent tools, not only evaluating them in demonstrations.
• Experience taking complex products or partnerships from strategy through launch in a cross-functional environment.
• Ability to connect ecosystem opportunities to customer problems and measurable product outcomes.
• Experience building relationships with technology platforms, AI companies, developer communities, or enterprise customers.
• Experience leading cross-functional work across product, engineering, design, marketing, partnerships, legal, and go-to-market.
• Strong written and verbal communication, with sound judgment in ambiguous and fast-paced environments.
• Open to using AI to amplify skills and strengthen work, demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly.
• Comfortable operating in a remote-first environment with asynchronous communication norms.
• Willingness to travel occasionally for partner meetings, industry events, or customer visits as needed.
• Eligibility to work in the United States without sponsorship for this role.
• Authorized to work in and require employment authorization sponsorship for this role.

Nice to have

• Prior experience with marketplace distribution and platform partnerships.
• Background working with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar agent coding tools.
• Experience defining and launching integrations with developer platforms.
• Familiarity with security and compliance product landscapes.
• Track record of building trust and transparency with enterprise customers.

Practical notes

This role is full-time and remote-based within the United States. Compensation includes industry-competitive salary and equity, with final offer amounts influenced by candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses or credentials. The position does not require travel on a regular basis but may include occasional travel for partner meetings, industry events, or customer visits. Employment authorization sponsorship is required for this role.