Overseeing this hybrid workforce are agent managers—people like Stauber, who runs an AI-powered human plus technology team. Agent managers are a new kind of leader responsible for orchestrating how AI agents learn, collaborate, perform, and work with human counterparts. Agent managers supervise AI agents in much the same way traditional managers coach and motivate human employees, though the agent managers do spend more of their time focusing on the safety, accuracy, and business alignment of the agents’ work.