Staff / Principal Product Manager (Platform & Infrastructure)

• We’re looking for a Staff Product Manager to own the vision and roadmap for Render’s infrastructure platform
• This is a role for someone who wants to define what a modern cloud platform looks like in an era where AI is fundamentally changing how software gets built and run
• You’ll drive the technical and strategic direction for Render’s core platform, working directly with infrastructure engineering to shape architectural decisions
• You’ll engage with Render’s customers and our product development teams to develop a deep understanding of their needs and build conviction about where the platform needs to go next
• Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the the foundational primitives upon which everything at Render is built. Your scope spans compute & orchestration, network topology, traffic, and routing features, and data storage infrastructure.
• Drive prioritization across Render’s platform investments, balancing the leverage of foundational capabilities against near-term product and business needs and being able to negotiate those tradeoffs
• Partner deeply with Engineering & other Product teams to shape the technical direction of Render’s core infrastructure, ensuring architectural decisions optimize for long-term reliability, performance, and extensibility. You’ll own the base layer of our stack, so having the dexterity to understand the shape of our other Product investment areas is essential
• Develop a strong, opinionated point of view on how Render’s platform primitives need to evolve to serve AI-native builders, from compute and orchestration to storage and runtime
• Set the standard for how product teams build on Render’s platform, providing clear guidance, boundaries, and abstractions that make it easy for other product leaders and external customers to ship with confidence

Benefits

• Monthly commuter stipend
• Fully stocked kitchen
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• 4 weeks PTO
• 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and all your dependents
• FSAs
• $60 per month for however you prefer to stay in shape
• $100 per month for mental health support
• Traditional or Roth 401(k) plans
• Long-term disability and life insurance
• Equity options
• Continuous learning benefits & related support

Preferred experience

• General knowledge of how AI is being used by modern teams. Bonus if you have strong perspective on the future of agentic memory management and compute workloads
• Strong communication and storytelling skills
• 7+ years in Product Management, with the majority spent on developer tools, infrastructure, or platform products
• A track record of taking ambiguous, cross-cutting platform problems and turning them into clear strategy and shipped outcomes
• Deep developer empathy, for both internal engineering teams and our customers, and the technical depth to make sound architectural tradeoffs in collaboration with engineering
• If this role excites you but you don’t meet every single requirement or your experience is in an adjacent role such as engineering management or program management, we’d still love to hear from you—your unique experience might be just what we need
• If this role excites you but you don’t meet every single requirement, we’d still love to hear from you—your unique experience might be just what we need
• Experience as an infrastructure engineer
• Experience building AI agents or infrastructure

Recruitment process

• Our interview process is unique to each role, and we value the candidate experience just as much as our customer experience
• We hope your conversations with us reflect a thoughtful process that is illuminative, enjoyable, and respectful of your time