Staff Product Manager, AI Observability & Telemetry

Render; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 weeks paid vacation

Parental leave 14 weeks

Long-term disability insurance

Medical coverage 100% employer-paid

Wellness & mental health stipend

Home office stipend

Commuter benefits (Bay Area)

Continuous learning benefits

Job summary

Render is seeking a Senior Product Manager to own the vision for observability across logs, metrics, tracing, and OpenTelemetry instrumentation. You will collaborate with Engineering and other Product teams to shape Render's telemetry pipeline, ensuring signal fidelity, performance, and scalable cost management.

You will develop a robust point of view on AI-native observability, address token spend and model routing, and translate complex problems into clear strategy with shipped outcomes.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Product Management, with substantive experience in observability, monitoring, developer tools, or infrastructure products.
• Working fluency with the OpenTelemetry ecosystem — signals, semantic conventions, collectors, and the tradeoffs of instrumenting real production systems.
• Familiarity with the economics of AI workloads: token pricing, model selection tradeoffs, and how teams budget for and attribute LLM spend.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for observability at Render across logs, metrics, and tracing.
• Drive prioritization across observability investments balancing foundational infra and product needs.
• Partner with Engineering & other Product teams to shape Render's telemetry pipeline and optimize signal fidelity, query performance, and cost.
• Develop a strong point of view on observability for AI-native builders, including OpenTelemetry conventions for agent workloads and cost attribution.

Skills

Observability

Product Mgmt

OpenTelemetry

AI/GenAI

Developer empathy

Job description

Render is seeking a Senior Product Manager to own the vision for observability across logs, metrics, tracing, and OpenTelemetry instrumentation. You will collaborate with Engineering and other Product teams to shape Render's telemetry pipeline, ensuring signal fidelity, performance, and scalable cost management.

You will develop a robust point of view on AI-native observability, address token spend and model routing, and translate complex problems into clear strategy with shipped outcomes.