Head of Data Science

At Render, we’re building the modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications. Our mission is to eliminate the tradeoff between the power of hyperscalers and the simplicity of developer-friendly platforms—so teams can ship fast, scale reliably, and focus on their product, not infrastructure.

Unlike complex hyperscalers or ephemeral edge/serverless solutions, Render offers a developer-first experience with persistent compute, dynamic autoscaling, built-in orchestration, and observability, allowing teams to launch, scale, and manage real-world applications without writing infrastructure code or managing servers. Whether you're building LLM-powered applications, scalable SaaS products, or async processing pipelines, Render empowers teams to move fast and scale confidently from MVP to millions of users.

Our platform is trusted by over 3 million developers worldwide and continues to grow rapidly. In January 2025, we raised $80M in Series C financing, bringing our total funding to $157M, to accelerate our vision of making cloud infrastructure both powerful and intuitive—designed for the speed of modern AI development.

We’re a diverse and talented team that values craft, velocity, and user experience. If you’re excited to help shape the future of the intelligent cloud and empower developers everywhere, we’d love to hear from you.

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.

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

We’re looking for a visionary and hands-on Head of Data Science to join our team. In this role, you’ll define and scale the data function at Render from the ground up—setting the strategy, building a world-class team, and embedding data deeply into every decision we make.

You will work closely with leaders across Product, Engineering, Marketing, and GTM to shape product strategy, surface key insights, and drive operational excellence. This is a unique opportunity to lead a highly impactful function at a pivotal stage of our growth.

You will lead by example, guiding the work of other data scientists while personally contributing to exploratory analysis, experiment design, causal inference, and data infrastructure improvements.

You will:

• Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing data science team across analytics, experimentation, and statistical modeling.

• Personally drive and guide impactful IC work, from ad hoc analysis to ML-based modeling projects.

• Create and evangelize best practices for data reliability, reproducibility, and documentation.

• Collaborate with senior leadership to define a long term data strategy

• Own and scale the Data Science function across product, growth, and go-to-market, aligning with company OKRs and strategic bets.

• Hire, lead, and mentor a world-class team of data scientists and analysts; build a high-trust, high-impact culture grounded in intellectual rigor and bias for action.

• Define and communicate Render’s long-term data strategy and architecture in partnership with Engineering and Product leadership.

• Drive strategic insight across the org: from pricing and packaging to product adoption, conversion, and customer segmentation.

• Promote data fluency across Render through tools, dashboards, and processes that empower every team to make smarter decisions

• Provide actionable insights about our users such as how they work, how they discover features, and which obstacles they might run into on the platform.

• Contribute toward initiatives to enhance the reliability and accuracy of our data infrastructure and processes.

We're looking for:

• 8+ years of experience in data science, with 4+ years in a leadership role scaling teams and delivering cross-functional impact.

• A strong foundation in statistics, causal inference, experimentation, and modeling techniques.

• Fluency in SQL and Python; experience with modern data stacks (e.g. BigQuery, dbt, Metabase, Mixpanel).

• Track record of influencing executive-level decisions through clear storytelling and analytical depth.

• Demonstrated ability to scale data functions from zero-to-one and beyond in fast-paced, product-led environments.

• Impact mindset: you're excited to wear multiple hats, move fast, and help define what “great” looks like.

• Bonus: experience in B2B SaaS, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, or growth analytics.

Our data stack:

• Multiple sources of data (e.g. Segment, HubSpot, back-end data in Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL)

• ETL to BigQuery with Stitch

• Dbt layer for data transformation

• Analysis and reporting with Metabase and MixPanel

Some projects you might work on:

• Define the north-star metrics that inform Render’s product and GTM decisions

• Design experiments to measure the impact of new AI infrastructure features

• Partner with Product and Engineering to identify patterns in developer usage that drive retention and expansion

• Build systems to detect platform abuse and ensure developer trust and safety

• Architect a modern analytics layer to support company-wide self-service insights

If this role excites you but you don’t meet every single requirement, we’d still love to hear from you—your unique experience might be just what we need.

Benefits

• 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.

Render is an equal-opportunity employer. We know that employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, product, and 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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