[Hiring] Staff Product Manager - Datastores (Postgres Specialist) @Render

Role Description

We're looking for a Staff Product Manager to own the vision and roadmap for Render's datastores portfolio, with our Postgres offering at the center. You will define what a modern managed database experience looks like, including how database products will adapt to new state patterns from agents and how agents as users of state-keeping products should be accommodated.

You'll drive the technical and strategic direction for Render Postgres and our broader data layer, working directly with your team and infrastructure engineering to shape architectural decisions. You'll engage with Render's customers and our product development teams to develop a deep understanding of their data needs and build conviction about where the datastores portfolio needs to go next.

What You'll Do

• Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Render's datastores, anchored on Postgres.
• Your scope spans:
  • Provisioning and lifecycle management
  • High availability and disaster recovery
  • Backups and point-in-time recovery
  • Scaling and performance
  • Connection management
  • The extension ecosystem
• Drive prioritization across Render's data investments, balancing foundational reliability work against near-term product and business needs.
• Partner deeply with Engineering & other Product teams to shape the technical direction of Render's data layer.
• Develop a strong, opinionated point of view on how managed Postgres needs to evolve to serve AI-native builders.
• Set the standard for how developers experience data on Render, providing clear guidance and sensible defaults.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Product Management, with the majority spent on databases, data infrastructure, developer tools, or platform products.
• Familiarity with Postgres — its architecture, operational model, ecosystem, and the tradeoffs teams face running it in production.
• Deep developer empathy for both internal engineering teams and our customers.
• A track record of taking ambiguous, high-stakes reliability and infrastructure problems and turning them into clear strategy and shipped outcomes.
• Strong communication and storytelling skills.

Requirements

• Experience as a database engineer, DBA, or infrastructure engineer (nice to have).
• Hands-on experience with Postgres internals, replication tooling, or the extension ecosystem (e.g., pgvector, PostGIS) (nice to have).
• Experience building AI agents or the data infrastructure that powers them (nice to have).

Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation.
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.
• 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.