Render

• Schedule and coordinate a high volume of interviews end-to-end: technical screens, team rounds, executive interviews, and debriefs • Own candidate communication throughout the scheduling lifecycle — confirmations, reschedules, prep materials, and day-of logistics • Deliver a thoughtful, high-touch candidate experience throughout the interview process • Maintain accurate data in our ATS: interview plans, interviewer pools, reference check forms, and more • Prepare interviewers ahead of each interview by distributing resumes, rubrics, and relevant context • Support day-of interview logistics, including troubleshooting and last-minute changes • Proactively surface scheduling blockers, SLA risks, and process improvement opportunities

• Own Render's core network infrastructure across multiple data centers and cloud providers. Shape how networking evolves as Render rapidly scales. • Design and build customer-facing networking capabilities that give users greater flexibility in how their services connect, communicate, and how traffic is routed. • Investigate complex networking issues across the stack, from the kernel and data plane to distributed systems and edge networking. • Drive performance and reliability improvements through systematic profiling and tuning. • Partner with engineers across the company to build a platform that is stable, predictable, and secure. • Participate in our on-call rotation. Help continuously improve how we detect, respond to, and learn from incidents.

• Own Render's day-to-day presence on X, LinkedIn, Reddit, and Discord: engage with developers, answer questions, and contribute to relevant conversations • Ship a regular cadence of short-form technical content: threads, posts, code snippets, demos, and timely takes on what's happening in the ecosystem • Surface and jump into the conversations where Render has a credible voice, fast • Build relationships with developer creators, community moderators, and early adopters in Render's ecosystem • Run AMAs, livestreams, and community programs on Discord and Reddit; support hackathons and community activations • Produce longer-form technical content (blog posts, videos, sample apps) designed to fuel social distribution • Occasionally represent Render at conferences, meetups, and on podcasts when the audience fit is right • Serve as the voice of the developer internally, partnering with Product, Engineering, Support, and Marketing to surface what the community cares about and influence the roadmap • Track impact through community growth, engagement, sentiment, and downstream signups; double down on what works

Role Description As Head of Talent at Render, you'll own the hiring engine at one of the most pivotal moments in the company's growth. With ambitious hiring goals across EPD, GTM, and G&A, you'll be responsible not just for filling roles but for building the systems, team, and executive alignment that make hiring predictable, high-quality, and sustainable at scale. This is a strategic leadership role with company-level accountability. You'll inherit a talented recruiting team and a set of strong foundational processes, and you'll be expected to evolve both — closing the gap between where our hiring function is today and where it needs to be to deliver on an ambitious multi-year growth plan. You'll partner closely with finance and executive leadership to drive workforce planning, set the hiring bar, and ensure that growth does not come at the cost of the talent density that makes Render exceptional. What You'll Do - Set and execute a multi-year talent strategy that delivers hiring velocity and quality at scale. - Own workforce planning and forecasting in partnership with finance and executive leadership. - Build and evolve the recruiting systems, processes, and tooling that support predictable and proactive hiring. - Lead and develop a recruiting team of managers, ICs, and coordinators, establishing clear performance standards and a culture of high output and high craft. - Set and protect the hiring bar across all functions, ensuring calibration is consistent, debrief quality is high, and quality is never traded for speed. - Partner closely with functional leaders across EPD, GTM, and G&A to align on priorities and enable hiring managers. - Ensure hiring performance is measurable and visible to the recruiting team, to functional partners, and executive team. - Represent the talent function at the executive level with clarity, credibility, and a clear point of view on what the business needs from hiring to execute its ambitions. Qualifications - 10+ years of recruiting experience, with at least 3 years in a leadership role owning a recruiting function at a high-growth technology company. - Experience owning a large, complex hiring plan end to end — including workforce planning, capacity modeling, and executive alignment — at a company scaling from early to growth stage. - Strong analytical instincts: can build and use a capacity model, distinguish leading from lagging indicators, and design reporting that drives decisions rather than just documents outcomes. - A clear and operational philosophy on hiring bar — what exceptional talent looks like, how to calibrate a team around that standard, and how to protect it under pressure. - Proven ability to build and develop a recruiting team: setting goals, developing managers, maintaining engagement, and holding the team to high standards with care. - Exceptional stakeholder management and influence skills — comfortable partnering with finance and executive leadership, setting real expectations, and delivering hard news clearly. - Track record of building recruiting systems and processes that produce predictable, high-quality outcomes at scale. Nice-to-Haves - Experience hiring across multiple functions simultaneously (EPD, GTM, and G&A) with meaningfully different sourcing strategies for each. - Familiarity with Ashby or similar ATS platforms, and comfort building recruiting analytics in Google Sheets or similar tools. - Experience standing up or significantly evolving a recruiting operations function alongside the recruiting team itself. - A point of view on employer brand and candidate experience that is grounded in data, not just intuition. - Comfort operating in ambiguity and a demonstrated ability to make good decisions before all the information is in — while being honest with stakeholders about what you know and what you do not. - Prior experience at a developer tools, infrastructure, or cloud platform company, and familiarity with the technical talent market in that space. Benefits - This opportunity is also eligible for equity with early-exercise options and extended exercise windows. - 4 weeks of paid vacation. - 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 and HSAs are available as well. - 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, and home office stipends for remote Renders. - Continuous learning benefits & related support.

• Own the quality bar for user experience across the Render product. You'll identify, design, and ship interface improvements end-to-end — from interaction design and visual polish through to production-ready code. • Drive design-led projects with full autonomy. You'll initiate and lead projects that improve how Render looks and feels — the kind of polish, interaction quality, and craft that typically gets deprioritized in an engineering backlog but defines whether a product feels good to use. • Ship production features as a full contributor to the codebase. This isn't a prototyping role. You'll work in our React/TypeScript frontend and collaborate with backend engineers to deliver complete features that serve real users. • Bridge design and engineering, eliminating the gap. You'll partner directly with product designers and engineers, collapsing the distance between intent and implementation. You'll consult on feasibility, push designs further than Figma can express, and prototype in code where it matters. • Elevate craft standards across the team. Through your work, code review, and design feedback, you'll raise the ambient quality of everything Render ships. You'll champion accessibility, performance, animation polish, and the invisible details that make an interface feel alive. • Shape design systems and component architecture. You'll contribute to and evolve our shared design system — not just maintaining it, but ensuring it empowers other engineers and designers to ship at a high quality bar without bottlenecks. • Collaborate with product, design, and engineering leadership on roadmap priorities, ensuring that craft and user experience have a seat at the table alongside feature delivery and infrastructure work.

• Own the security product strategy at Render, defining which capabilities belong in the core platform versus add-on products, and how they evolve over time. • Define and deliver Render’s governance layer, including authentication and authorization (SSO/SAML, SCIM, RBAC, session management), compliance readiness (SOC 2, HIPAA), audit logging, and policy enforcement. • Drive exploration and development of emerging security areas such as supply chain security (build-time scanning), runtime workload protection, and safe governance of agent-driven workflows. • Work directly with customers, prospects, and GTM teams to understand security requirements and procurement blockers, translating insights into clear product priorities. • Partner closely with Render’s Security and Expansion teams, along with engineering counterparts, to shape the roadmap and share accountability for outcomes. • Ensure all security features balance strong protections with a seamless, developer-first experience. • Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner across product, engineering, security, and GTM teams to align priorities, drive execution, and deliver impactful security capabilities that build customer trust and unlock growth.

• Partner with GTM Leaders to Drive Growth • Act as a trusted finance partner to Sales and Marketing leadership, supporting both day-to-day decision-making and long-term strategy • Lead annual and quarterly planning for Sales and Marketing, including revenue, metrics, headcount, expense budgets, and investment prioritization • Build and maintain sales capacity and productivity models to inform hiring pace, ramp expectations, and performance targets • Partner with Marketing to evaluate channel and program investments, helping ensure spend aligns with pipeline and revenue outcomes • Support pricing, deal evaluation, and other analyses that inform GTM strategy and investment decisions • Own and Elevate GTM Forecasting & Reporting • Strengthen forecasting rigor and improve how the company understands GTM performance • Improve and maintain ARR and revenue forecasting models, incorporating sales capacity, productivity, and other key drivers of revenue growth • Build clear reporting on pipeline health, conversion, sales productivity, and other key SaaS metrics • Partner closely with RevOps, BizOps, and Data Science to ensure GTM metrics and reporting support accurate forecasting and decision-making • Analyze GTM performance trends to identify key drivers and surface actionable insights for Sales, Marketing, and company leadership • Help Build a Scalable FP&A Foundation • Support company-wide budgeting, monthly reporting, and variance analysis • Contribute to board materials and company planning processes • Improve financial models, reporting frameworks, and planning tools as the business scales • Help define how FP&A partners cross-functionally across the organization

• Collaborate with product, engineering, and marketing to distill technical features into clear, compelling, and differentiated messaging inspiring developers and decision-makers. • Drive product launches from strategy to execution always in service to Render's long-term vision • Craft concise and compelling value propositions and differentiation that resonate with developer audiences across our properties. • Develop high-quality, audience-specific content – blogs, videos, case studies, demos, landing pages, and more – that supports GTM initiatives. • Research industry trends, competitors, and customer needs to refine messaging and content strategies. • 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

• Manage a dedicated portfolio of high-growth customers, establishing yourself as their trusted business advisor and primary point of contact. • Develop a deep understanding of each customer's business, their key objectives, and their technical roadmap to create and account plans that ensure Render is delivering maximum value. • Proactively identify and mitigate churn risks by addressing customer concerns, articulating Render's scalability, and reinforcing the value proposition. • Drive account expansion by identifying opportunities to convert customers from month-to-month to committed annual contracts and lead the upsell motion. • Collaborate closely with our Customer Engineers, who own the technical relationship with developers, to present a unified front and ensure customers are both technically successful and strategically aligned. • Lead regular business reviews with key stakeholders to showcase ROI, review progress against goals, and uncover new opportunities for partnership. • Serve as the voice of your customers internally, sharing their feedback and insights with our Product and Engineering teams. • Represent Render with authenticity, curiosity, and technical credibility in every customer interaction.

• Architect the AI-First Stack: Own the marketing tech stack from end-to-end. You will design and deploy AI-powered workflows (using tools like Claude, Zapier, Clay, etc.) to automate high-frequency tasks and evangelize AI adoption across the team. • Scale Lifecycle Marketing: Render serves millions of developers. You will build the automation systems to engage our users based on product triggers and adoption, ensuring our communication is helpful and timely. • Own Outbound Infrastructure: Build and optimize the systems required for sophisticated outbound reach, ensuring high deliverability and seamless integration with our CRM. • Master Attribution & Analytics: Build the models that tell us where to invest and why. You’ll drive visibility into program performance, ROI, and data analytics, turning raw data into actionable insights for the leadership team. • Drive the Rhythm of Business: Lead the operational "drumbeat" of the marketing team. You’ll support Finance and Ops on business reviews, board updates, and cross-functional syncs, ensuring our strategy is aligned with company goals.