USD per year
Technical Product Lead
Location
Berlin Office
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
On-site
Department
Product
Compensation
- Berlin €85K – €110K • Offers Equity
Overview
Hi 👋, from the Kombo founding team, we are looking to hire a Technical Product Lead who will own one of our product verticals (e.g. HRIS or ATS) end-to-end. Your challenge is to own one of our strategic verticals and lead it through the next phase of growth, driving millions in additional revenue by shipping the solutions that solve our customers' biggest pains, acting like a founder within a startup. We believe that the best products get shipped by small, autonomous teams acting with a lot of ownership and leeway (like an early-stage startup or similar to PostHog, OpenAI, Revolut) with product-minded engineers acting, owning much more of the product lifecycle than typical. This means our PMs can focus on strategy, prioritization, ensuring we build the right things for our customers and overall much more acting like a GM or founder of the product. After 12–24 months in this role, you will have led a vertical through a major scale phase with direct revenue ownership, gaining the kind of experience that is a strong launchpad for future founder, CPO, or GM roles. If this sounds like the kind of opportunity and challenge that excites you, we'd love to hear from you.
📱 About Kombo
Kombo is building the unified API for ATS, HR, and payroll systems. Instead of companies spending months integrating with dozens of different systems, they can integrate once with Kombo and instantly connect to over 90 platforms. We abstract away the complexity of handling different data schemas, authentication methods, and API quirks.
Since going through Y Combinator in 2022, we:
- Grew from zero revenue to 10+ millions in ARR and hundreds of customers at a pace that puts among the ~top-5% of VC-backed startups
- Scaled to process data for the equivalent of 20% of Germany's workforce
- Raised $30M+ of funding from Y Combinator, 468 Capital and other top-tier investors
- Grew to a team of 55+ working across Berlin and NYC
👀 The Opportunity
We've consistently seen that when a vertical has focused, founder-style product ownership, it can scale incredibly fast. The most recent example: we launched our Learning (LMS) vertical in December and went from 0 to 100k ARR in one month, our most successful launch at Kombo so far, despite limited capacity on the engineering side. We believe applying the same playbook to our HRIS and ATS verticals can unlock millions of additional revenue and deliver a significantly better experience to hundreds of thousands of employees this year alone. However, these verticals currently have no long-term product owner, making product capacity the limiting factor for scaling them. This is where you come in.
🦉 Your Role
As a Product Lead at Kombo, you'll own one of our verticals (e.g. HRIS or ATS) end-to-end - from strategy to execution. This is a founding PM role with high visibility and direct impact on company growth.
Your core responsibilities:
- Own your vertical's strategy: Chart the product roadmap and strategy for all use cases in your vertical (e.g. HRIS or ATS) using our API, working closely with our product engineers and prioritising the initiatives we could run
- Manage all the chaos in a growing vertical: juggle different sales requests, new customer use cases, integration timelines etc. → bring structure into these demands, especially where it’s not a differentiated use of engineering time
- Become the market expert and drive customer understanding: Attend conferences, run customer interviews, and educate the entire company about the use cases in your vertical using our API. Ideally, you are as knowledgeable about our customers and their requirements as a PM working at our customer.
- Enable the sales and success team: Sometimes, you will do ‘founder-led sales’ - you will jump on a sales call for an important prospect or answer prospect questions (as you will overall be the market expert)
- Coach and guide engineers during initiatives: Serve as product stakeholder during initiatives, ask ‘stupid questions’ “why can’t we do X?” and coach engineers if they go off-track
Example projects you'd own (illustrated through our recent LMS launch - analogous work would apply to HRIS/ATS):
- Act as product stakeholder for a bulk course creation initiative: Help the team understand the customer needs for a new endpoint and collaborate to scope out a solution that meets these needs while minimising engineering effort
- Representing Kombo at Learning Technologies France (Paris): Attend a major industry conference, speak with 20+ customers and prospects over two days to deepen market understanding...
Kombo is the leading unified API for HRIS, ATS, LMS, and Payroll. It offers a single integration to provide hundreds of HRIS, ATS, Assessment, and LMS integrations off-the-shelf to customers. Kombo focuses exclusively on the future-of-work vertical, providing deep out-of-the-box integrations with HR, ATS, LMS, and Payroll systems. It offers expertise and specialized guidance, best-in-class technical support, and a partner for product and market expansion. Kombo provides an end-to-end seamless experience including a dashboard for managing customer integrations, scopes configuration for data privacy and GDPR compliance, automated issue detection logs, and a dynamic coverage grid showing supported data points. Developer features include accessible API design, webhooks, in-depth documentation, custom fields (read/write), enterprise-level customization, real-time sync, request logs, security features, SFTP integrations, support by Kombo engineers, and a white-label solution.
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