Staff Product Manager, AI Foundations

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. 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, and 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, and the shared capabilities that let every team ship high-trust AI products. This role sits behind Vanta’s customer-facing AI experiences. Today, every team shipping AI features has to answer the same hard questions on their own: how to define quality, how to evaluate it, and how to know a change is safe to ship. You will turn those answers into shared foundations, so the AI experiences our customers rely on get better and more trustworthy over time. What you’ll do as a Staff Product Manager, AI Foundations at Vanta: - Own the strategy and roadmap for Vanta’s core AI capabilities: the agent harness and the AI quality and evaluation stack - Live in agent traces to build intuition for how customers actually use our AI products, and turn that into the highest-leverage improvements - Make Vanta’s AI products win on quality: build golden datasets, automated evaluators aligned to expert judgment, and self-serve tooling so PMs, subject-matter experts, and designers can run evals without an engineer in the loop - Scale the agent harness: shape the core capabilities Vanta’s agents are built on, making clear tradeoffs across cost, latency, reliability, and safety - Set the quality bar teams adopt for evals, launch readiness, and observability, and drive adoption without becoming a gatekeeper - Partner closely with EPD teams across Vanta, and with the AI pillar’s other teams, to turn proven patterns into shared capabilities - Help define and shape Vanta’s product team culture as we grow How to be successful in this role: - Have 8+ years of product management experience, including platform, infrastructure, or technically deep products - Have hands-on experience building with LLMs and AI agents, and understand how evals, observability, and quality signals drive systematic improvement in AI products - Bring strong user empathy: you get close to customer problems and bring that clarity back to the team - Know how to run foundational products like a product, with adoption goals, feedback loops, and prioritization grounded in what your users need - Earn credibility with senior engineers and hold your own in deeply technical design discussions - Use coding agents daily, and stay deeply curious about where models and agent tooling are going - Think in systems: you can reason about how evaluation, observability, and infrastructure choices compound across many teams and customer experiences - Thrive in ambiguity in a fast-moving AI space, leading with the problem and the process rather than a fixed answer - Communicate with clarity and influence, both written and verbal, with team members, stakeholders, and executives - Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact. What you can expect as a Vanta’n: - Industry-competitive salary and equity - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans - 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new…