Staff Product Manager - Agent & Systems Observability

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United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 218,000 - 300,000 annuallyFunction: Product ManagementExperience: 7+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Storytelling","Cross-functional collaboration","Strategic thinking"]

Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for observability across Render’s systems telemetry and emerging agent observability. Define what observability means for AI-native builders, spanning logs, metrics, distributed tracing, OpenTelemetry-native instrumentation, and traces of model calls and multi-step agent runs. Partner with Engineering and Product teams to shape telemetry pipelines, balance foundational investment vs. product needs, and guide cost and usage direction for token-based economics.

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Staff Product Manager - Agent & Systems Observability

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Job Summary

Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for observability across Render’s systems telemetry and emerging agent observability. Define what observability means for AI-native builders, spanning logs, metrics, distributed tracing, OpenTelemetry-native instrumentation, and traces of model calls and multi-step agent runs. Partner with Engineering and Product teams to shape telemetry pipelines, balance foundational investment vs. product needs, and guide cost and usage direction for token-based economics.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Product Management
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for observability across systems telemetry, OpenTelemetry-native instrumentation/export, and agent/LLM observability.
  • •Drive prioritization across observability investments, balancing foundational telemetry infrastructure with near-term product needs.
  • •Partner with Engineering and Product teams to shape the telemetry pipeline and optimize for signal fidelity, query performance, and cost at scale.
  • •Develop an opinionated point of view on observability for AI-native builders, including how OTel conventions extend to agent workloads and how teams reason about token spend and cost attribution.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 218,000 - 300,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kParental LeaveLife InsuranceDisability

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years in Product Management with experience in observability, monitoring, developer tools, or infrastructure products.
  • •Fluency with the OpenTelemetry ecosystem (signals, semantic conventions, collectors) and tradeoffs of instrumenting production systems.
  • •Familiarity with AI workload economics, including token pricing, model selection tradeoffs, and LLM spend attribution.
  • •Technical depth to make sound architectural tradeoffs in collaboration with engineering and strong developer empathy.
  • •A track record of turning ambiguous, cross-cutting problems into clear strategy and shipped outcomes.
Experience:7+ years
Skills:CommunicationStorytellingCross-functional collaborationStrategic thinking
Tech Stack:OpenTelemetryOTelLogsMetricsDistributed tracingTracesSemantic conventionsCollectors

Company Brief

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Provides a cloud platform (PaaS) that simplifies deploying and hosting web services, databases, and static sites with auto-scaling, managed databases, and developer-friendly tooling for modern web applications.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2016
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