Director of Product, Capabilities
At Render, we’re building the modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications. Our mission is to eliminate the tradeoff between the power of hyperscalers and the simplicity of developer-friendly platforms—so teams can ship fast, scale reliably, and focus on their product, not infrastructure.
Unlike complex hyperscalers or ephemeral edge/serverless solutions, Render offers a developer-first experience with persistent compute, dynamic autoscaling, built-in orchestration, and observability, allowing teams to launch, scale, and manage real-world applications without writing infrastructure code or managing servers. Whether you're building LLM-powered applications, scalable SaaS products, or async processing pipelines, Render empowers teams to move fast and scale confidently from MVP to millions of users.
Our platform is trusted by over 3 million developers worldwide and continues to grow rapidly. In January 2025, we raised $80M in Series C financing, bringing our total funding to $157M, to accelerate our vision of making cloud infrastructure both powerful and intuitive—designed for the speed of modern AI development.
We’re a diverse and talented team that values craft, velocity, and user experience. If you’re excited to help shape the future of the intelligent cloud and empower developers everywhere, we’d love to hear from you.
Applying to Render
We're seeking candidates who possess high integrity, humility, and an insatiable drive to learn. Through reasoned discussions and continuous feedback, we strive to improve both individually and collectively. We foster an environment of mutual trust and respect, empowering effective debate to achieve the best outcomes for our customers and team.
We especially encourage members of underrepresented groups in the tech community to apply and understand that not all successful candidates will meet each requirement listed.
Our interview process is unique to each role, and we value the candidate experience just as much as our customer experience. We hope your conversations with us reflect a thoughtful process that is illuminative, enjoyable, and respectful of your time.
About the Role
We're looking for an experienced product director to lead a team of product managers to build and innovate Render's platform. The way engineering teams ship software today is undergoing a dramatic and rapid change. AI is accelerating software development and creating conditions where teams feel tremendous pressure to ship fast and innovate. In this role, you will play a key part in ensuring that Render is the platform of choice for accelerating software development and deployment for today's most ambitious teams.
What You'll Do
Lead a high-performing product team, collaborating with design and engineering, to develop and champion a product strategy and long-term vision for expanding the breadth of applications Render supports, including AI apps and agents
Champion the needs of developers across Render, partnering with other product and engineering leaders to define strategic bets across the entire platform
Stay up-to-date with innovations in software development and bring them into your team’s work
Be a steward of the core platform, helping the team think through how to solve for developers’ needs while maintaining the longevity and flexibility of Render’s platform
Grow and develop as a leader on a talented, engaged, and passionate product, design, and engineering team
What We're Looking For
10+ years of experience in a Product Management role, with most of that time working on developer tools or similar technical products at a product-led growth company
An ability to inspire and champion big ideas that have a massive impact on the business and our customers
A love of high-quality, well-crafted user experiences and strong intuition for developer tools
Experience directly managing and growing PMs
Strong, successful track record of managing products with deep technical and business complexity
An ability to proactively anticipate challenges and the downstream effects of decisions, and take appropriate action to address
A knack for balancing user insights and data with creativity and intuition to identify novel but simple solutions to problems
Exceptional communication skills across writing and conversation
Nice-to-haves:
Experience as a developer professionally or a technical background
Experience in a customer-facing role such as customer success or sales, particularly for a developer platform
If this role excites you but you don’t meet every single requirement, we’d still love to hear from you—your unique experience might be just what we need.
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. We will also work with you to create a supportive plan of return.
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.
Render is an equal-opportunity employer. We know that employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, product, and community to flourish. We make all employment decisions including hiring, evaluation, termination, promotional, and training opportunities, without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical handicap, mental disability, medical condition, disability, gender or identity or expression, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital status, height and/or weight.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
We encourage all who are interested to apply. We can't wait to hear from you!