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Staff Product Manager - Agent & Systems Observability

Render· Product & Design Organization
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Remote$218k - $300kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Staff Product Manager to own the vision and roadmap for observability at Render, spanning systems telemetry, OpenTelemetry-native instrumentation, agent and LLM observability, and the cost/usage layer. Focused on defining what observability means for AI-native builders and driving the technical and strategic direction for Render's observability surface (logs, metrics, traces, OpenTelemetry ecosystem).

Responsibilities

  • Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for observability at Render. Your scope spans 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 that makes token economics legible.
  • Drive prioritization across observability investments, balancing foundational telemetry infrastructure against near-term product needs.
  • Partner deeply with Engineering & other Product teams to shape the technical direction of Render's telemetry pipeline, ensuring architectural decisions optimize signal fidelity, query performance, and cost at scale.
  • Develop a strong, opinionated point of view on what observability means for AI-native builders. How will OTel conventions extend to agent workloads, what a trace of an agent run could look like inside Render, and how teams should reason about token spend, model routing, and cost attribution.

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. Bonus if you've tracked the emerging conventions for GenAI and agent observability.
  • Familiarity with the economics of AI workloads: token pricing, model selection tradeoffs, and how teams budget for and attribute LLM spend. Major bonus if you've worked on an LLM gateway, proxy, or metering product.
  • Deep developer empathy, for both internal engineering teams and our customers, and the technical depth to make sound architectural tradeoffs in collaboration with engineering.
  • A track record of taking ambiguous, cross-cutting problems and turning them into clear strategy and shipped outcomes.
  • Strong communication and storytelling skills.

Skills

Required:Observability product managementOpenTelemetryAI/LLM workload economics

Benefits

  • 4 weeks of paid vacation.
  • 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child.
  • 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 are available as well.
  • 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.
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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