Staff / Principal Product Manager, Platform & Infrastructure
Remote$218k - $300k + equityFull-timePosted 11mo ago
About the role
Role focused on owning vision and roadmap for Render's infrastructure platform, defining what a modern cloud platform looks like in the AI-enabled era, and driving architectural and strategic direction with engineering and product teams.
Responsibilities
- Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the foundational primitives upon which everything at Render is built. Scope includes compute & orchestration, network topology, traffic, routing features, and data storage infrastructure.
- Drive prioritization across platform investments, balancing foundational capabilities with near-term product and business needs and negotiating tradeoffs.
- Partner deeply with Engineering & other Product teams to shape the technical direction of Render's core infrastructure, ensuring architectural decisions optimize long-term reliability, performance, and extensibility.
- Develop a strong, opinionated point of view on how Render's platform primitives need to evolve to serve AI-native builders, from compute and orchestration to storage and runtime.
- Set the standard for how product teams build on Render's platform, providing clear guidance, boundaries, and abstractions for other product leaders and external customers to ship with confidence.
Qualifications
- 7+ years in Product Management, with majority spent on developer tools, infrastructure, or platform products.
- General knowledge of how AI is used by modern teams. Bonus with perspective on agentic memory management and compute workloads.
- Deep developer empathy for internal engineering teams and customers; ability to make sound architectural tradeoffs with engineering.
- Track record of turning ambiguous, cross-cutting platform problems into clear strategy and shipped outcomes.
- Strong communication and storytelling skills.
Skills
Required:Vision, strategy, and roadmap ownershipArchitectural tradeoff assessmentCross-functional leadershipTechnical communication
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 Bay Area Renders, and home office stipends for remote Renders.
- Continuous learning benefits & related support.
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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