Technical Product Lead

Hi 👋 I'm Arne, Co-Founder and CPO at Kombo.

I'm looking to hire a Technical Product Lead who will report directly to me, and own our new Learning vertical. _ Your challenge is to lead the vertical from the first customers and strong signs of product-market fit to 1M+ ARR in Revenue this year, acting like a founder within a startup. _

I 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 full 0 → 1 → scale journey with direct revenue ownership and gain 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, I'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 8+ 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 launched the new Learning vertical in December and we have experienced an overwhelming positive response (i.e., we went from 0 to 100k ARR in one month) despite limited capacity on the engineering side.

This was the most successful launch we had at Kombo so far and we believe it’s feasible to unlock millions of revenue ( =10-20x current revenue ) and deliver a significantly better learning experience to hundreds of thousands of employees this year alone.

However, the vertical currently has no long-term product owner making product capacity the limiting factor for scaling the vertical.

This is where you come in.

🦉 Your Role

As our Learning Product Lead, you'll own the entire LMS integration vertical 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 the Learning vertical strategy : Chart the product roadmap and strategy for all Learning use cases 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 recruiting use cases using our API. Ideally, you are as knowledgeable about our customers (e.g., Blinkist, Panopto) 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

Recent projects you would have owned

Act as product stakeholder for a bulk course creation initiative: Help the team understand the