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.
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.
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.
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.
Ultimately, you are responsible for picking the right priorities and ensuring excellent execution across both product quality and velocity.
For this role, past or aspiring founders are likely ideal - but we're excited to evaluate candidates from other backgrounds as well.
Our culture is built around two pillars: high ambition (and thus high-performance) while still providing a fun and supportive environment.
Some tidbits that illustrate this:
This is a rare opportunity to take a product that has already proven traction from 0 → 1 and the kind of experience you usually only get if you are a startup founder and hit the pivot-hell-lottery.
If this sounds appealing to you, please apply! even if you don't match all criteria 🙂
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Kombo is building the unified API for HR, payroll, and recruiting systems. Instead of companies spending months integrating with dozens of different systems, they can integrate once with Kombo and instantly connect to over 160 platforms. We abstract away the complexity of handling different data schemas, authentication methods, and API quirks.
Since going through Y Combinator in 2022, we’ve:
Kombo is an international company by default. We operate across two main hubs (NYC 🇺🇸 and Berlin 🇩🇪) and work with a globally distributed team representing 20+ nationalities.
Salary
$85,000 - $110,000
Location
Berlin Office
Experience
3+ years
Total raised
$25.0M
Last stage
Series A
Investors
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.