Staff /Principal Product Manager - Data and Storage

The role

You will own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Render's datastores portfolio, centered on Postgres. You will drive technical and strategic direction for the data layer and partner with engineering to shape architectural decisions.

What you will do

• Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Render's datastores, anchored on Postgres.
• Drive prioritization across Render's data investments.
• Partner with Engineering and other Product teams to shape the technical direction of the data layer.
• Develop a point of view on how managed Postgres serves AI-native builders.
• Set the standard for how developers experience data on Render.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years in Product Management, with the majority spent on databases, data infrastructure, developer tools, or platform products.
• Familiarity with Postgres architecture, operational model, ecosystem, and production tradeoffs.
• 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, high-stakes reliability and infrastructure problems into strategy and outcomes.
• Strong communication and storytelling skills.

Nice to have

• Strong perspective on how agentic workloads and AI-native applications are reshaping database usage patterns.
• Experience as a database engineer, DBA, or infrastructure engineer.
• Hands-on experience with Postgres internals, replication tooling, or the extension ecosystem (e.g., pgvector, PostGIS).
• Experience building AI agents or the data infrastructure that powers them.

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.