Vast.ai is looking to expand its marketplace to autonomous coding agents and agent-powered services, and needs a product leader to define and execute this strategy.
Requirements
- Deep technical fluency in AI/ML technologies
- Ability to debate model architectures with research scientists
- Ability to reason about GPU cost curves
- Ability to jump into a REPL to unblock a prototype
- Hands-on experience with LLM fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation, or agentic frameworks (e.g., AutoGen, CrewAI, LangGraph)
- Experience with developer-facing tooling (APIs, SDKs, CLIs) or two-sided marketplaces
Responsibilities
- Map the landscape of coding-first AI agents, competitor SDKs, and emerging open-source tooling
- Translate fuzzy research breakthroughs into an initial set of lovable developer workflows
- Define success metrics that capture marketplace liquidity, model performance, and end-user ROI—and build the telemetry to measure them
- Partner with BD to recruit lighthouse launch partners and supply-side agent authors
- Evangelize inside and out: write public-facing updates, record demo videos, and present at developer events
Other
- 5–10 yrs in product leadership with at least one zero-to-one software platform or marketplace shipped
- Customer-obsessed storytelling
- Bias for action & intellectual honesty
- Credibility with the frontier-AI crowd
- Prior founder experience
- 5 Days+ On-site at our SF office
- Comprehensive health, dental, vision, 401(k); conference & compute budget; unlimited GPUs for personal projects
