Dear future PM of Hex,
The world has changed from when Hex was started.
Agents have made things faster but in some ways they’ve also made things worse. Work is fragmented into local sessions nobody can review. Context isn’t governed or trusted. Every workflow starting from scratch. Arbitrary agent-generated dashboards that are unmaintainable and untraceable.
Five years ago, Hex was built on a simple belief: that using data was often a fragmented, ungovernable, stitched-together workflow that slowed organizations down, but it didn’t have to. The first wave of agents proved that bet again — except this time, it's not just the data team — this now affects everyone.
We think Hex was accidentally perfectly built for this moment. We’ve spent five years building a graph-based execution system, sandboxed cloud environments, permissioning systems, caching & compute, and a warehouse-agnostic querying system. And it turns out this is exactly what you need to build so AI can truly reason over an organization — not just generate text-to-SQL. Plus, Hex is already where your data team works, so agents can leverage their judgement. Context compounds.
We're already trusted and loved by some of the most AI-forward teams like Anthropic, Cursor, Ramp, Figma, Reddit — and we’ve seen massive agent adoption in the product. Yet it still feels like we’ve only just started.
Some upcoming projects
- Code generation is getting better than ever. How can we catch the tailwinds to reinvent the dashboard-building experience?
- Background autonomous agents that help teams more proactively understand what is happening in their organization. Things that folks may not be explicitly asking about.
- Agent-driven external integrations that push data outside of Hex to turn analytical insight into real operational actions.
The biggest risk ahead of us is being too precious about what Hex already is. We need people willing to question the roadmap, not just execute it.
How to know if you’re a good fit
You're a tinkerer. You have side projects, or you're always testing new tooling.
You can think in systems, looking forward rather than looking sideways as technology shifts.
You’re okay to get it wrong in order to eventually get it right. Our PM team is small; you’re on the front lines of a lot of decisions.
You’re obsessed with quality, and the details matter, perhaps in a way that is slightly unreasonable to most people. Bonus points if you already have a list of Hex paper cuts.
And genuinely, you love the product. It’ll make this job a hell of a lot more fun. Before Hex, I never really touched data, but now I’m obsessed. If you’ve felt that shift, that’s probably the thing that matters most.
If this sounds exciting to you, send us a note — [email protected]
- 💜 Olivia