[Hiring] Senior Engineering Manager, Product @Render

Role Description

As a Senior Engineering Manager for Product Engineers, you will lead a group of talented builders creating the core developer experience of the Render platform. This role blends strong technical leadership with product thinking:

• Partner closely with product managers and designers to translate user needs into high-quality, scalable systems.
• Guide technical direction, develop engineers, build the team, and ensure meaningful improvements are shipped quickly.
• Bring a strong engineering background, a deep sense of ownership, and a passion for building products that developers love.

What You'll Do

• Lead and grow a team of product engineers, supporting their development through mentorship, feedback, and clear technical guidance.
• Hire out your team and build it into multiple teams.
• Drive execution on key product initiatives from ideation through launch, balancing speed with high standards of reliability and quality.
• Partner closely with Product and Design teams to translate customer needs into thoughtful technical solutions and product roadmaps.
• Engage deeply in technical discussions, guiding system design decisions and helping the team navigate architectural tradeoffs.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement across engineering practices and team processes.
• Help the team break down complex problems into incremental milestones that deliver value quickly while supporting long-term platform evolution.
• Ensure teams maintain a strong understanding of the developer experience and customer impact of the features they build.
• Partner closely with product management, customers, and internal teams to understand needs, align priorities, and ensure delivery of impactful features and solutions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years as an Engineer shipping products and/or features that have downstream impact on the business and product ecosystem.
• 4+ years of experience managing people and developing engineers, including hiring, mentorship, and performance management.
• Strong technical background with the ability to engage deeply in system design, architecture, and engineering tradeoffs.
• Product-oriented mindset with experience translating business goals and user needs into engineering roadmaps and shipped features.
• A track record of successful collaboration with product, marketing, and customer support teams to drive adoption and retention.
• Ability to balance urgency with thoughtful execution, helping teams ship quickly while maintaining high quality.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and design.
• A strong sense of ownership and accountability for both team outcomes and long-term system health.
• Experience improving engineering velocity through tooling, processes, and team practices.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience building products for developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, or DevTools.
• Background working on highly scalable distributed systems or infrastructure platforms.
• Experience building products used directly by developers or technical users.

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.
• 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.