Staff Product Manager (Datastores, PostgreSQL Specialist)

Role overview

Staff Product Manager for Datastores (PostgreSQL specialist) at Render. You’ll own the vision and roadmap for Render’s datastores portfolio, with a primary focus on Render Postgres, and help define the technical direction of the company’s data layer.

Key missions

• Define and execute the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the datastores portfolio, emphasizing Postgres.
• Lead technical and strategic direction for Render Postgres and the broader data layer.
• Partner closely with engineering and other product teams to shape the technical roadmap for the data platform.

Requirements

• Proven ability to turn ambiguous, high-stakes reliability and infrastructure problems into clear strategy and shipped outcomes.
• 7+ years in Product Management, with most experience in databases, data infrastructure, developer tools, or platform products.
• Strong communication and storytelling skills.
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL, including:
  • architecture and operational model
  • ecosystem
  • tradeoffs involved in production operation.

Nice-to-haves

• Perspective on how agentic workloads and AI-native applications are changing database usage patterns.
• Deep developer empathy and enough technical depth to make solid architectural tradeoffs with engineering.
• Hands-on experience with Postgres internals, replication tooling, or extension ecosystem such as pgvector and PostGIS.
• Experience as a database engineer/DBA/infrastructure engineer.
• Experience building AI agents or the data infrastructure that powers them.

Location

• Full remote.