Staff Product Manager - Agent & Systems Observability

Role Description

We're looking for a Staff Product Manager to own the vision and roadmap for observability at Render. The role spans both the systems layer and the fast-emerging world of agent observability. This is a role for someone who wants to define what it means to understand your software in an era where AI is fundamentally changing how it gets built and run.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Owning the vision, strategy, and roadmap for observability at Render.
• Driving prioritization across observability investments, balancing foundational telemetry infrastructure against near-term product needs.
• Partnering deeply with Engineering & other Product teams to shape the technical direction of Render's telemetry pipeline.
• Developing a strong, opinionated point of view on what observability means for AI-native builders.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Familiarity with the economics of AI workloads: token pricing, model selection tradeoffs, and how teams budget for and attribute LLM spend.
• Deep developer empathy, for both internal engineering teams and our customers.
• A track record of taking ambiguous, cross-cutting problems and turning them into clear strategy and shipped outcomes.
• Strong communication and storytelling skills.

Requirements

• Experience as an SRE, observability engineer, or infrastructure engineer (nice to have).
• Hands-on experience building AI agents, or instrumenting and evaluating them in production (nice to have).
• Contributions to OpenTelemetry or adjacent open-source telemetry projects (nice to have).

Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation.
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.
• 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.
• 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.