Sierra Club

Product Manager, Agent Development - Flagship Deployment

Sierra Club$120K — $150K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-8+ years experience in highly technical product roles, including at least 2-3 years as a Senior PM or above.
  • Strong engineering background with understanding of architecture and API design.
  • Experience with production-grade systems at scale, focusing on reliability and observability.
  • Proven ability to serve as a trusted partner to enterprise customers, managing ambiguity and priorities.
  • Detail-oriented with the ability to quickly learn new tools and domains.
  • Exceptional communication skills for explaining complex concepts across different audiences.

Responsibilities

  • Own the entire lifecycle of production AI agents, including workflows, decisions, and user experience.
  • Drive quality and customer experience by evaluating failures and implementing improvements.
  • Advance the platform by solving complex problems and enabling new capabilities through collaboration with engineering teammates.
  • Negotiate technical discussions and steer outcomes effectively across various business units.
  • Envision and design innovative customer experiences based on emerging needs.

Benefits

  • Unlimited paid time off for flexibility.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their families.
  • Life insurance and disability support.
  • Retirement plans that vary by location.
  • Parental leave and fertility benefits.
  • Free meals and snacks for staff wellness.
  • A discretionary benefit stipend for personal spending choices.
  • Unique offerings like free alphorn lessons.
Full Job Description
What you'll do

This role is dedicated to one of Sierra's largest and most strategic customers - a company running AI agents at massive scale across millions of customer interactions. You'll be the product owner embedded within a dedicated team, responsible for the full quality and evolution of production AI agents across chat and beyond.
  • Own the agent, end to end. You own what the agent does (workflows, decisions, escalation logic), how it works (architecture, data flows, APIs, integrations), and how it feels to users (clarity, trust, edge cases, failures at scale). It takes equal parts product sense, technical depth, and taste.
  • Drive quality and outcomes. You're not done when the agent ships. You own the customer experience end to end - running evaluations, digging into failures, identifying the highest leverage experience improvements, and working with engineers to ship them. You define what "great" looks like and hold the bar.
  • Push the platform forward. The bar on a flagship account is as high as it gets - huge volume, complex workflows, and demanding quality and performance requirements. It's also one of the best places at Sierra to do 01 platform work - hard problems regularly drive new platform capabilities, and you'll partner closely with our Platform team to build them.
  • Navigate enterprise complexity. At this scale, every big technical discussion is also a negotiation - you'll need to read the implications in real time, hold your ground, and steer toward the right outcome. Expect to work across business units, procurement, compliance, and senior execs.
  • Invent what's next. Beyond making today's agent great, you'll imagine experiences the customer hasn't asked for yet - then partner with their teams to scope, design, and ship them.
What you'll bring
  • 5-8+ years of experience building highly technical products, with at least 2-3 years as a Senior PM or above (or equivalent demonstrated scope and ownership).
  • Engineering background or equivalent technical depth - you can review architecture, reason about API design, and hold your own in a technical discussion without needing an engineer to translate.
  • You've shipped and owned production-grade systems at scale, with the reliability, observability, and hard tradeoffs that come with complex systems.
  • A track record of operating as a trusted technical partner to enterprise customers - managing ambiguity and competing priorities, influencing without authority, and knowing when to push back.
  • A high quality bar and quick to learn - you sweat the details others let slide, and pick up unfamiliar tools and domains fast.
  • Exceptional communication: you can explain a complex integration decision to an engineer, then explain the same decision to a VP.
Even better...
  • You've worked with language models and production AI agents, and understand not just what they do but also how they work under the hood.
  • You are familiar with retail or consumer business operations - order management, CX workflows, fulfillment, subscriptions, or commerce infrastructure.
  • You're a builder - side projects, open source, a startup attempt, or real production code (TypeScript, Go, Python, or similar) and enjoy getting your hands dirty.
  • Experience working in a dedicated, embedded model with a named enterprise account - you know what it means to be accountable for a relationship at that depth.
  • MBA or equivalent business breadth - this is a product role, but you'll shape account strategy, commercial conversations, and what Sierra builds next.
Our values
  • Trust: We build trust with our customers with our accountability, empathy, quality, and responsiveness. We build trust in AI by making it more accessible, safe, and useful. We build trust with each other by showing up for each other professionally and personally, creating an environment that enables all of us to do our best work.
  • Customer Obsession: We deeply understand our customers' business goals and relentlessly focus on driving outcomes, not just technical milestones. Everyone at the company knows and spends time with our customers. When our customer is having an issue, we drop everything and fix it.
  • Craftsmanship: We get the details right, from the words on the page to the system architecture. We have good taste. When we notice something isn't right, we take the time to fix it. We are proud of the products we produce. We continuously self-reflect to continuously self-improve.
  • Intensity: We know we don't have the luxury of patience. We play to win. We care about our product being the best, and when it isn't, we fix it. When we fail, we talk about it openly and without blame so we succeed the next time.
  • Family: We know that balance and intensity are compatible, and we model it in our actions and processes. We are the best technology company for parents. We support and respect each other and celebrate each other's personal and professional achievements.
What we offer

We want our benefits to reflect our values and offer the following to full-time employees:
  • Flexible (unlimited) paid time off
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family
  • Life insurance and disability benefits
  • Retirement plan dependent on country of employment
  • Parental leave
  • Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
  • Lunch, as well as delicious snacks and coffee to keep you energized
  • Discretionary benefit stipend giving people the ability to spend where it matters most
  • Free alphorn lessons

These benefits are further detailed in Sierra's policies, may vary by region, and are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefits plans. Eligible full-time employees can participate in Sierra's equity plans subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies.

About Sierra Club

The Sierra Club is a nonprofit organization that promotes environmental conservation. It was founded in 1892 by John Muir and is one of the oldest and largest environmental organizations in the United States. The organization has over 3.8 million members and supporters and is dedicated to protecting the planet's natural resources and wildlife. The Sierra Club engages in a variety of activities, including lobbying for environmental legislation, organizing outdoor activities, and publishing a magazine. The organization is headquartered in Oakland, California.
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