Founding Product Manager, Control Plane

Runlayer

$120K — $160K *
US-AnywhereRemote in New York City, NY
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in product management, with 3+ focused on security, infrastructure, or IAM products.
  • Experience as a founder or early product manager, establishing product processes from scratch.
  • Understanding of the buyer/user dynamic, particularly the CISO/IT teams versus developers.
  • Technical proficiency in reading code and understanding proxies, policy engines, and identity governance.
  • Proven customer engagement skills, able to engage in discovery calls and build relationships with clients.
  • Strong writing skills for effective PRDs, avoiding reliance on slide presentations.
  • Experience with AI governance and insights into agent and tool management.

Responsibilities

  • Own the entire control-plane surface from discovery to product shipment.
  • Conduct discovery sessions with security buyers and ensure active feedback from developers.
  • Set priorities for the product roadmap and lead the shipping process in collaboration with engineers.
  • Ensure deep visibility and real-time control within agent interactions.
  • Oversee user access management and governance aspects of the agent lifecycle.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity tailored to attract top talent.
  • Flexible paid time off including vacation and parental leave.
  • Budget for continuous professional development through courses and conferences.
  • Choice of top-tier equipment to maximize productivity.
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits.
  • Engagement with cutting-edge companies, allowing for direct impact through 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.


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