Render
Staff Product Manager - Agent & Systems Observability
$218K–$300K
Remote: United States · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 21, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years in Product Management.
- Visa sponsorship
- Generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship; at Render's discretion, may sponsor existing visa transfers, subject to business authorization.
About the job
Owns Render’s observability vision and roadmap across systems telemetry, AI agent and LLM workloads, and cost and usage visibility.
What you'll do
- Set observability strategy and prioritize foundational telemetry and product investments.
- Partner with Engineering and Product teams on telemetry architecture, including signal fidelity, query performance, and cost at scale.
- Define how observability supports AI-native builders, including agent traces, token spend, model routing, and cost attribution.
What they ask for
- 7+ years in Product Management, with substantive experience in observability, monitoring, developer tools, or infrastructure products.
- Working fluency with the OpenTelemetry ecosystem, including signals, semantic conventions, collectors, and production instrumentation tradeoffs.
- Familiarity with AI workload economics, including token pricing, model selection tradeoffs, and LLM spend budgeting and attribution.
- Deep developer empathy and technical depth to make architectural tradeoffs with Engineering; track record of turning ambiguous cross-cutting problems into shipped outcomes; strong communication and storytelling skills.
Nice to have
- Experience as an SRE, observability engineer, or infrastructure engineer; hands-on experience building or instrumenting and evaluating AI agents in production.
- Contributions to OpenTelemetry or adjacent open-source telemetry projects; experience with an LLM gateway, proxy, or metering product.
Pay
$218K – $300K (base salary)
Tools
OpenTelemetry, LLM
AI focus
Own observability for AI workloads, including traces of model calls, tool use, and multi-step agent runs, and make token economics, model routing, and cost attribution visible.
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