Senior Engineering Manager, Agent Platform & Growth - Render

About Render

At Render, we’re 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—so teams can ship fast, scale reliably, and focus on their product, not infrastructure.

Unlike complex hyperscalers or ephemeral edge/serverless solutions, Render offers 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. Whether you're building LLM-powered applications, scalable SaaS products, or async processing pipelines, Render empowers teams to move fast and scale confidently from MVP to millions of users.

Our platform is trusted by over 7 million developers worldwide and continues to grow rapidly. In February 2026, we raised an additional $100M in Series C financing, bringing our total funding to $260M, to accelerate our vision of making cloud infrastructure both powerful and intuitive—designed for the speed of modern AI development.

About the Role

As Senior Engineering Manager for Agent Platform & UX, you will lead two teams reimagining Render's onboarding and activation experience for both humans and AI agents.

One team owns the experience a person sees the first time they come to Render: signup, onboarding, activation, and what drives them to adopt more of the platform. The other team builds the equivalent experience for agents, which reach Render through APIs rather than the UI, integrating with providers like Codex, Claude, and Cursor so agents can use Render the way humans do. You'll take an already-forming org through its next stage of growth.

What You'll Do

• Lead and grow two teams: UX (human onboarding and activation) and Agent Platform (programmatic interfaces via MCP, CLI, API, SDK, and Blueprints).
• Own the roadmap for Render's self-serve user journey, from first touch through activation, initial monetization, usage expansion, new feature adoption, and PQL graduation.
• Drive the agent-facing side of the platform: build the API-driven experience that lets agents integrate with and operate on Render.
• Partner with dedicated product and design partners on both teams to align roadmaps with customer, growth, and platform needs.
• Hire and develop engineers to support planned team growth, while maintaining both teams' identities and focus areas as they scale.
• Make key architectural and product decisions, balancing long-term platform investments against iterative improvements to onboarding and activation.
• Build a strong performance management and career development practice for a team that includes senior ICs.

What We're Looking For

• Strong people leadership as a primary priority.
• Hands-on ability to review code, prototype, and contribute directly when helpful.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, with adaptability and a growth mindset.
• Proven experience building and scaling more than one team, ideally growing a group from a handful of engineers into a larger organization.
• Experience managing and developing senior (IC5+) engineers, including hiring and performance management.
• Ability to partner closely with product and design teams.
• Strong product instincts, connecting engineering investment to growth and activation outcomes.
• Startup background preferred, with a proven ability to operate at a fast pace.

Nice-to-Haves

• Prior growth-focused engineering experience (onboarding, activation, funnel optimization).
• Experience building developer- or agent-facing product experiences, and integrating with AI coding tools such as Codex, Claude, or Cursor.
• Background in developer platforms or DevTools.
• Experience helping teams split or reorganize as they scale.

Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation.
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.
• 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent (FSAs and HSAs available).
• Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401(k) plans.
• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health, therapy, hobbies, etc.
• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
• Commuter benefits for Bay Area employees; home office stipends for remote employees.
• Continuous learning benefits and related support.