Staff Product Manager, CI/CD & Developer Productivity

Render is building a modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native applications. The Staff Product Manager will own the build and deploy system, focusing on improving developer productivity and streamlining the software delivery process.

Responsibilities:

• Shape build and deploy experiences that feel simple from hundred-line prototypes to architectures with hundreds of services, and work seamlessly whether the thing shipping code is a person or an AI agent
• Own the build and deploy system end to end. Set the roadmap and own the outcomes: build and deploy speed, deploy success rate, and time to diagnose a failure
• Define and ship foundational primitives such as reusable build artifacts and application-level deployment, rather than accumulating one-off features
• Drive build and deploy performance work: caching, incremental builds, monorepo workflows, and build compute options for workloads that need more capacity
• Make failures fast to diagnose: failure classification, surfacing root cause at the point of failure rather than buried in logs, and the metrics that tell us whether debuggability is improving
• Talk to customers constantly, translate what you hear into patterns across the customer base, and decide what to build now, later, or not at all
• Work with engineering to sequence foundational refactors against urgent customer needs, and defend those tradeoffs to stakeholders
• Partner with customer success and sales on at-risk accounts: decide what we commit to, what gets a workaround, and how we communicate both

Requirements:

• You have 6+ years of product management experience, with time spent on developer tools, infrastructure, or platform products
• You have significant depth in the delivery domain: CI/CD, build systems and caching, containers and registries, deploy strategies (canary, blue-green, rollbacks, health checks, zero-downtime deploys), and infrastructure as code. You can hold your own in an architecture conversation and tell a load-bearing technical constraint from a preference
• You set direction that holds up over multiple quarters, drive alignment across engineering, design, and go-to-market without owning those teams, and raise the bar for how product work gets done around you
• You think in primitives and platforms. When a customer asks for a one-off fix, you look for the reusable capability underneath it
• You're comfortable with ambiguity and limited data. You form opinions from customer conversations, analytics, and technical constraints, and you can defend a prioritization under capacity limits
• You communicate clearly with everyone from a platform engineer evaluating your build system to a CTO asking about competitor benchmarks, and you know how to say no while preserving trust
• You obsess over developer experience and hold a high bar for speed, reliability, and legibility in the tools you ship
• Experience with product-led growth motions or products serving both self-serve users and larger accounts
• Hands-on experience as a software engineer
• Experience taking a platform primitive from design partner beta through general availability