Senior Engineering Manager, Agent Platform & Growth

Render is building a modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications. The Senior Engineering Manager will lead the UX and Agent Platform teams, owning onboarding, activation, self-serve growth, and agent-facing experiences through APIs, SDKs, CLIs, and related interfaces. The role includes setting roadmaps, making architectural and product decisions, hiring and developing engineers, and partnering with product and design.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and grow two teams, UX (human onboarding and activation) and Agent Platform (the equivalent experience for agents via programmatic interfaces like the 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 the dedicated product and design partners on both teams to align roadmap with customer, growth, and platform needs
• Hire and develop engineers to support planned team growth, while keeping both teams' identities and focus areas clear as they scale
• Make key architectural and product decisions, balancing long-term platform investment against iterative improvements to onboarding and activation
• Build a strong performance management and career development practice for a team that already includes senior ICs

Requirements:

• Strong people leadership - the top priority for this role
• Hands-on enough to review code, prototype, and contribute directly when it helps the team
• 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 org
• Experience managing and developing senior (IC5+) engineers, including hiring and performance management
• Ability to partner closely with product and design without needing to fill those functions yourself
• Strong product instincts, with the ability to connect engineering investment to growth and activation outcomes
• Background from a startup preferred, though experience at a larger company can work too. What matters is the ability to operate at pace
• 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 a team split or reorganize as it scales into multiple teams