Lago

Open Source Metering and Usage Based Billing

Product Manager

€60K - €80K EUR / 0.10% - 0.15%
Location
Remote (ES; PT; GB; DE; IT; FR)
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
3+ years
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Raffi SARKISSIAN
Raffi SARKISSIAN
Founder

About the role

This role is based in-office in Paris, and/or remote in a timezone that is +2/-2h from Paris, France.

The team and your role

We're a team of 12 today, and we’re passionate about Product, Fintech, and the power of Open Source.

Our work revolves around creating a tech-driven metering and usage-based billing application for now. As we process and structure a lot of data and build for developers, we have numerous exciting Product challenges!

As a Product Manager at Lago, you will be a key contributor to the overall product, documentation and design direction of the company. This role requires a deep understanding of public API, interactive applications, excellent communication skills, and experience in product research.

Requirements

  • Years of hands-on experience in designing and developing interactive applications.
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
  • Demonstrated experience in conducting comprehensive product research.

During the first year, as a product manager at Lago, you will

  • Contribute to the overall product, documentation and design direction of the company.
  • Understand customer and community needs and challenges proactively.
  • Conceptualize and propose features and improvements that are shipped quickly while maintaining high quality.
  • Work closely with sr. engineers and other key stakeholders to ensure a high-quality implementation through cross-functional teamwork.
  • Collaborate with designers in crafting flows, prototypes for your designated features.
  • Play a role in hiring and establishing a product and design culture within the company.
  • Innovate and redefine best-in-class software design and development processes, contributing to the creation of an opinionated product.

What we value

  • Passion for solving intricate challenges with best-in-class solutions, always prioritizing a thoughtful Dev/User experience.
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to navigate through ambiguous or unclear situations with confidence and clarity.
  • Commitment to continuous learning and personal growth, fostering a mindset of daily improvement.

The person we are looking for

  • A former engineer with a robust understanding of Product Management or a Product Manager with an engineering background (at least 4 years of hands-on experience).
  • Experience working with lots of data and event-driven environments.
  • A genuine passion for Open-Source: if you've contributed to OSS projects or used OSS tools, let us know!
  • Gain extra points for hands-on experience with an API product or billing project including implementation, enhancement, and maintenance.
  • A real appetite for the early stages of co-creating a product and shaping Lago's future.

Competitive package including equity; Remote-friendly; Regular workations, usually by the 🌞🌊🏄


About the interview

Our typical process

  1. 20-min first call
  2. Technical case
  3. Review of the case with the team
  4. Offer

What we commit to

  • Your time is precious, and we'll do our very best to be time-conscious with yours.
  • If you're open to it, we commit to give you the most constructive feedback as possible on your case, as we are aware it's quite an investment of time on your side.
  • We approach recruiting as a 2-way street, we make offers when we have a strong conviction on the mutual fit: in terms of skills, mindset, cultural fit.

Learn how we think and work

About Lago

Lago is the open-source platform that helps engineers build better monetization systems. They enable software teams to build customizable and scalable usage metering, subscription management, billing, invoicing, and payment systems.

Lago is the leader of their category on Github (5k+ stars), won « Product of the month » on ProductHunt, and is used by leading companies such as Mistral, Together, Swan, Juni, Fintecture, JuliaHub, Regate, Flipside Crypto, Unifonic, Vida.id , Bureau.id, Sortium.

Lago’s founding team had previously built and scaled the home-grown monetization system of fintech unicorn Qonto from pre-launch to series D.

Our Values

  • Ambition: we aim big, because otherwise, where is the fun?
  • Progress: we care more about the grit, the steep learning curve, the resilience and creativity muscles, than the current status or where you come from.
  • Humble confidence: we know our strengths and always strive for excellence, but we also know there’s so much we don’t know yet
  • Pay it forward: we’ve all started somewhere, people gave us a hand when we needed one, we don’t forget this, and reinforce this positive cycle
  • Not taking ourselves too seriously: we are ambitious, restless learners and hustlers, but at the end of the day, our health (physical and mental), and our loved ones are what matter the most.
Lago
Founded:2021
Team Size:12
Location:Paris, France
Founders
Anh-Tho CHUONG
Anh-Tho CHUONG
Founder
Raffi SARKISSIAN
Raffi SARKISSIAN
Founder