Founding Product Marketing Director

At Render, we're dedicated to building a powerful and user-friendly cloud that simplifies hosting for every developer and team. Our platform supports a wide range of applications, from simple static sites to complex multi-service architectures. By offering the flexibility of traditional cloud providers without their associated complexity and maintenance challenges, we enable our users to concentrate on product development instead of managing servers.

Our team is a diverse and talented group addressing universal challenges of software development. We prioritize rapid iteration while maintaining a strong focus on user experience, craft, and reliability. This commitment drives us to improve continually. Our organic, product-led growth has attracted over 2.5 million developers, with 200,000+ new developers signing up every month. Our customers trust Render for our reliable and scalable cloud with enterprise-grade capabilities, fully managed datastores, and advanced security and compliance features.

In January 2025, we reached a significant milestone by raising $80 million in Series C financing, bringing our total funding to $157M. This investment enables us to accelerate our vision of making cloud infrastructure both powerful and intuitive, while catering to the evolving needs of the AI era.

Applying to Render:

We're seeking candidates who possess high integrity, humility, and an insatiable drive to learn. Through reasoned discussions and continuous feedback, we strive to improve both individually and collectively. We foster an environment of mutual trust and respect, empowering effective debate to achieve the best outcomes for our customers and team.

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 a founding Product Marketing Director, reporting to the VP of Marketing. We have a product developers love, evident in our organic, product-led growth to more than 2.5 million developers on the platform, and significant self-serve revenue. 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 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.

• Drive new product launches - GTM strategy, product messaging/positioning, sales enablement, campaign assets, AR and PR

• Develop company positioning and messaging informed by user and competitive research. Craft concise and compelling value propositions and differentiation that resonate with developer audiences.

• Work with GTM teams to create content and cohesive messages for developers across all of the various touchpoints.

• Keep a pulse on the competitive landscape. Continuously differentiate and improve messaging. Drive creation of competitive briefs, web pages, and battle sheets

• 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.

• Stellar communication and presentation skills.

• Creative, “can do” attitude. 

• 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.

• 3+ 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.

• Our openings span more than one career level. The starting salary for this role is between $210,000 and $285,000 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!

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