Staff Product Manager - Datastores (Postgres Specialist)

Render

3d • $218,000 - $300,000

About The Position

Render is 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. We offer 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. Render is trusted by over 6 million developers worldwide and recently raised $100M in Series C financing. We are a diverse and talented team that values craft, velocity, and user experience. We are seeking candidates who possess high integrity, humility, and an insatiable drive to learn, fostering an environment of mutual trust and respect. We encourage members of underrepresented groups in the tech community to apply. Our interview process is unique to each role and values the candidate experience.

We're looking for a Staff Product Manager to own the vision and roadmap for Render's datastores portfolio, with a focus on our Postgres offering. You will define the future of managed database experiences, 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 product development teams to understand their data needs and build conviction about the future of the datastores portfolio.

Requirements

• 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, and the technical depth to make sound architectural tradeoffs in collaboration with engineering.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Bonus if you have strong perspective on how agentic workloads and AI-native applications are reshaping database usage patterns.
• Experience as a database engineer, DBA, or infrastructure engineer.
• Hands-on experience with Postgres internals, replication tooling, or the extension ecosystem (e.g., pgvector, PostGIS).
• Experience building AI agents or the data infrastructure that powers them.

Responsibilities

• 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, and the extension ecosystem.
• Drive prioritization across Render's data investments, balancing the leverage of foundational reliability work — replication, failover, storage performance — against near-term product and business needs, and being able to negotiate those tradeoffs.
• Partner deeply with Engineering & other Product teams to shape the technical direction of Render's data layer, ensuring architectural decisions optimize for durability, performance, and operational simplicity. Databases are where customer trust is won or lost, so an instinct for reliability and data safety is essential.
• Develop a strong, opinionated point of view on how managed Postgres needs to evolve to serve AI-native builders — from vector workloads and retrieval pipelines to databases that are spun up, branched, and torn down programmatically by agents at scale.
• Set the standard for how developers experience data on Render, providing clear guidance, sensible defaults, and abstractions that make it easy for teams to run production databases with confidence — without needing a DBA on staff.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed