At Render we are building a powerful, easy-to-use cloud platform to host anything online: from simple static sites to complex applications with dozens of microservices. Render offers the flexibility of traditional cloud providers without their complexity and maintenance headaches, so developers and businesses can focus on building products instead of managing servers.

We’re a talented and diverse group solving a problem faced by every development team. We iterate quickly while placing the utmost importance on user experience, quality, and reliability. We push ourselves to do better every day. Our organic, product-led growth has already attracted over a million developers. Customers include innovators like Mitchell Hashimoto, the cofounder of HashiCorp, climate unicorns like Watershed, and global enterprises like Red Bull. With our rapidly increasing revenue, we’re on to something big.

Applying to Render:

We’re looking for candidates with high integrity, low ego, and an insatiable drive to learn. We use reasoned discussion and constant feedback to improve as individuals and as a company. We cultivate mutual trust and respect, empowering us to debate ideas effectively and create the best outcomes for our customers and our team.

We especially encourage members of underrepresented groups in the tech community to apply and understand that not all successful candidates will meet each requirement listed.

Our interview process is unique to each role, and we value the candidate experience just as much as our customer experience. We hope your conversations with us reflect a thoughtful process that is illuminative, enjoyable, and respectful of your time.

About the role:

Render is looking to hire our first Product Marketing Manager, reporting to the VP of Product. We have a product developers love (and love talking about). This is evident in our organic, product-led growth to more than 1 million developers on the platform, significant self-serve revenue, and a $50M Series B in June 2023. This is a rare opportunity to start a function from the ground up with a company that already has proven market momentum in a dynamic growing space. Your impact here will be profound.

You will:

• Work directly with our CEO and executive team to shape GTM at Render
• Drive product marketing from strategy to execution, including major launches, GTM enablement, and always in service to Render’s long-term vision.
• Develop company positioning and messaging informed by user and competitive research. Craft concise and compelling value propositions and differentiation that resonate with developer audiences across our properties.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop go-to-market strategies and drive product launches.
• Work with GTM teams to create content and cohesive messages for developers across all of the various touch points.
• Be the voice of the customer. Understand Render’s customers’ unique needs, pain points, and aspirations—champion customer-centricity throughout the organization, influencing strategy with insights and pulse of the customer and the market.
• Manage our customer stories and showcase the impact that Render has for its customers

We’re looking for someone who has:

• 7+ years of B2B product marketing experience for technical SaaS products.
• Proven experience influencing executive and strategic stakeholders.
• Full stack Product Marketing expertise across the product launch lifecycle.
• Knowledge of product-led growth (PLG) and product-led sales (PLS).
• Experience creating compelling external-facing content assets for technical audiences.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into compelling messaging.
• Intellectual curiosity and first principles thinking and problem-solving.

Nice-to-haves:

• Data-driven approach to your work, customer research and other internal, external oriented insights.
• 2+ years experience working in a small to mid-sized startup.
• Deep understanding, advocacy, and empathy of the developer audience and their processes, tools, platforms, and jobs to be done.

Benefits

• Our openings span more than one career level. The starting salary for this role is between $170,000 and $210,000 USD. The provided salary depends on many factors, such as work experience and transferable skills, business needs and impact, and market demands.
• The opportunity is also eligible for equity with early exercise options and extended exercise windows.
• 4 weeks of paid vacation, available from day one.
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child. We will also work with you to create a supportive plan of return.
• Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.
• 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent. FSAs available as well.
• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental heath and therapy, hobbies, etc.
• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
• Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area, and home office stipends for remote Renders.
• Continuous learning benefits & related support.

Render is an equal-opportunity employer. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product, and our community to flourish. We make all employment decisions including hiring, evaluation, termination, promotional, and training opportunities, without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical handicap, mental disability, medical condition, disability, gender or identity or expression, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital status, height and/or weight.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

We encourage all who are interested to apply. We can’t wait to hear from you!