Senior Engineering Manager, Agent Platform – Growth

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +2 more locations.

📋 Description

• Lead and develop two teams: UX for human onboarding and activation, alongside the Agent Platform for programmatic interfaces.

• Take ownership of Render's self-serve user journey, guiding it from the initial touchpoint through activation, early monetization, usage expansion, feature adoption, and PQL graduation.

• Enhance the agent-facing platform experience via the MCP, CLI, API, SDK, and Blueprints.

• Collaborate with product and design teams to synchronize roadmaps with customer, growth, and platform requirements.

• Recruit and nurture engineers to facilitate team expansion.

• Ensure clear team identities and focus areas as the teams grow.

• Make informed architectural and product decisions that balance long-term platform investments with iterative onboarding and activation enhancements.

• Establish performance management and career development protocols for a team that includes senior individual contributors.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong leadership capabilities.

• Sufficiently hands-on to review code, prototype, and directly contribute when necessary.

• Comfortable navigating ambiguity, with a flexible and growth-oriented mindset.

• Demonstrated experience in building and scaling multiple teams.

• Proven track record in managing and developing senior engineers (IC5+), which includes hiring and performance management.

• Ability to collaborate closely with product and design teams.

• Strong product instincts that connect engineering efforts to growth and activation outcomes.

• Preferred experience in a startup environment, though experience in larger companies may be acceptable.

• Prior experience in growth-focused engineering is a plus.

• Experience in developing developer- or agent-facing product solutions and integrating with AI coding tools like Codex, Claude, or Cursor is desirable.

• Background in developer platforms or DevTools is a plus.

• Experience assisting a team in splitting or reorganizing as it scales is an asset.

• Applicants requiring visa sponsorship must obtain business authorization; this position is generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation.

• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.

• Long-term disability insurance.

• Life insurance.

• 401K plans.

• 100% employer-paid medical coverage for you and a dependent.

• 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent.

• FSAs and HSAs available.

• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.

• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.

• Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area.

• Home office stipends for remote Renders.

• Continuous learning benefits and related support.

• Equity offered.