Staff Product Manager - Agent & Systems Observability

The role

You will own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for observability at Render. This includes systems telemetry, OpenTelemetry-native instrumentation, and agent and LLM observability.

What you will do

• Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for observability at Render.
• Drive prioritization across observability investments.
• Partner with Engineering and other Product teams to shape the technical direction of the telemetry pipeline.
• Develop an opinionated point of view on observability for AI-native builders.
• Engage with customers and product development teams to understand debugging, monitoring, and spend management.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years in Product Management, with substantive experience in observability, monitoring, developer tools, or infrastructure products.
• Working fluency with the OpenTelemetry ecosystem.
• 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 internal engineering teams and customers.
• Technical depth to make sound architectural tradeoffs in collaboration with engineering.
• Track record of turning ambiguous, cross-cutting problems into clear strategy and shipped outcomes.
• Strong communication and storytelling skills.

Nice to have

• Tracked the emerging conventions for GenAI and agent observability.
• Worked on an LLM gateway, proxy, or metering product.
• 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.

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.
• FSAs and HSAs available.
• 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.
• Home office stipends for remote Renders.
• Continuous learning benefits & related support.

Before you apply

• 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.

About the company

Render is building a modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications. The platform is trusted by over 7 million developers worldwide.