Staff Product Manager - Agent & Systems Observability

About the role

We are seeking a Staff Product Manager to own the vision and roadmap for observability at Render. This role spans both the systems layer and the fast-emerging world of agent observability.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for observability at Render.
• Drive prioritization across observability investments, balancing foundational telemetry infrastructure against near-term product needs.
• Partner deeply with Engineering & other Product teams to shape the technical direction of Render's telemetry pipeline, ensuring architectural decisions optimize for signal fidelity, query performance, and cost at scale.
• Develop a strong, opinionated point of view on what observability means for AI-native builders.
• Understand the economics of AI workloads: token pricing, model selection tradeoffs, and how teams budget for and attribute LLM spend.
• Engage with Render's customers and our product development teams to develop a deep understanding of how they debug, monitor, and manage spend, and build conviction about where observability needs to go next.

Requirements

7+ years in Product Management, with substantive experience in observability, monitoring, developer tools, or infrastructure products.

Working fluency with the OpenTelemetry ecosystem — signals, semantic conventions, collectors, and the tradeoffs of instrumenting real production systems.

Bonus if you've tracked the emerging conventions for GenAI and agent observability.

Familiarity with the economics of AI workloads: token pricing, model selection tradeoffs, and how teams budget for and attribute LLM spend.

Major bonus if you've worked on an LLM gateway, proxy, or metering product.

Deep developer empathy, for both internal engineering teams and our customers, and the technical depth to make sound architectural tradeoffs in collaboration with engineering.

A track record of taking ambiguous, cross-cutting problems and turning them into clear strategy and shipped outcomes.

Strong communication and storytelling skills.

Qualifications

Experience as an SRE, observability engineer, or infrastructure engineer.

Hands-on experience building AI agents, or instrumenting and evaluating them in production.

Contributions to OpenTelemetry or adjacent open-source telemetry projects.

Skills

Experience with the OpenTelemetry ecosystem — signals, semantic conventions, collectors, and the tradeoffs of instrumenting real production systems.

Familiarity with the economics of AI workloads: token pricing, model selection tradeoffs, and how teams budget for and attribute LLM spend.

Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation.
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child.
• Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.
• 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent.
• FSAs and HSAs are available as well.
• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.
• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
• Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area, and home office stipends for remote Renders.
• Continuous learning benefits & related support.

This position is generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship. At Render's discretion, the business may sponsor existing visa transfers. Applicants who require sponsorship must receive business authorization.

Render is an equal-opportunity employer. We know that employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, product, and community to flourish. We make all employment decisions including hiring, evaluation, termination, promotional, and training opportunities, without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical handicap, mental disability, medical condition, disability, gender or identity or expression, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital status, height and/or weight. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.