Staff Product Manager

Responsibilities

• Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for observability at Render, spanning systems telemetry (logs, metrics, distributed tracing), OpenTelemetry-native instrumentation and export, agent and LLM observability (traces of model calls, tool use, and multi-step agent runs), and the cost and usage layer for token economics.
• Drive prioritization across observability investments, balancing foundational telemetry infrastructure against near-term product needs.
• Partner deeply with Engineering and other Product teams to shape the technical direction of Render's telemetry pipeline, optimizing for signal fidelity, query performance, and cost at scale.
• Develop a strong, opinionated point of view on observability for AI-native builders, including extensions of OTel conventions to agent workloads, trace formats for agent runs, and reasoning about token spend, model routing, and cost attribution.
• Engage with customers and product development teams to understand debugging, monitoring, spend management, and future observability needs.

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 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 customers, with technical depth to make sound architectural tradeoffs in collaboration with engineering.
• Track record of taking ambiguous, cross-cutting problems and turning them into clear strategy and shipped outcomes.
• Strong communication and storytelling skills.

Nice-to-Haves

• 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.