Founding Product Manager, Control Plane

Runlayer

$130K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in product management, with 3+ years in security, infrastructure, or IAM products.
  • Experience as a founder or early product manager, creating product processes from the ground up.
  • Understanding of buyer/user dynamics between CISO/IT and product developers.
  • Technical proficiency to read code and understand proxies, policy engines, and identity management.
  • Demonstrated customer engagement with the ability to identify and connect with users on a personal level.
  • Strong written communication skills for clear product requirement documents (PRDs).
  • Interest and familiarity with AI governance and operational management.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the control-plane surface, focusing on visibility and real-time controls for agents.
  • Conduct discovery sessions with security and IT decision-makers, translating insights into a prioritized roadmap.
  • Make strategic decisions on product features and collaborate with engineers to deliver releases weekly.
  • Oversee product lifecycle from initial discovery to final launch, ensuring alignment with company goals.
  • Establish governance strategies allowing enterprises to use AI agents effectively while maintaining oversight.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity to attract and retain top talent.
  • Generous paid time off, including vacation, sick leave, and parental leave.
  • Professional development budget for courses, certifications, and conferences.
  • Opportunity to choose top-tier equipment for an optimized working environment.
  • Comprehensive health benefits including dental and vision coverage.
  • Direct customer interaction opportunities to witness the impact of your work.
Full Job Description
About the Role

As the Founding PM for the Control Plane, you'll own one governance plane for the full agent lifecycle: every MCP, skill, plugin, and agent, governed and observable across every surface an agent can touch. Today agents sprawl across every platform with little oversight; you'll build the one layer that sits between their agentic harnesses and the hundreds of SaaS apps their agents reach.

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

Why You'll Thrive Here
  • Impact: Own the control plane that lets enterprises adopt AI agents without losing control.
  • Excellence: Work closely with founders who helped establish MCP and ship fast.
  • Ownership: Own the full control-plane surface end to end, from discovery through shipped product.


What You'll Do
  • Own the control-plane surface: discovery, visibility, deep session, real-time controls, and agent IAM.
  • Run discovery with security and IT buyers and the developers and agents who hit the proxy, turning signals into a ranked roadmap.
  • Make decisions, prioritize the roadmap, and ship with engineers weekly.


What We're Looking For
  • 8+ years in product management, including 3+ on security, infrastructure, or identity/IAM products.
  • Founder or early-PM experience; you've built product processes from zero.
  • Fluency with the buyer/user split: the CISO/IT team who buys governance and the developer or agent who lives under it.
  • Technical depth: you read code and reason about proxies, policy engines, OAuth/identity, and audit pipelines.
  • 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, with real opinions on how agents and tools should be governed.


Bonus Qualifications
  • Hands-on building of MCP and how agents call tools in production.
  • Background in detection and response, DLP/PII/PHI, secrets/vault, or compliance-driven enterprise sales (SOC 2, HIPAA, NIST).
  • Shipped observability or policy products where winning meant covering more, in more detail, than anyone else.


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 with details about your experience and interests.

Similar Jobs

More Jobs at Runlayer

More Enterprise Technology Jobs

Find similar Founding Product Manager, Control Plane jobs: