Product Manager - Manage Usage & Cost

Nominal•Los Angeles, CA

14h

About The Position

Nominal is hiring a Product Manager to own the customer journey for activating Nominal and for understanding, controlling, and optimizing product consumption and costs. The role will turn pricing and packaging strategy into transparent, predictable, self-service product experiences. Nominal’s initial pricing model has been designed, and the person in this role will build on it and own future developments. This role suits a product manager comfortable with usage and financial data who can independently lead ambiguous journeys spanning multiple teams. The PM will determine which activation, cost, and consumption problems to address, with the potential to expand into shaping pricing and packaging direction across Product, Finance, and GTM as the company tests new models.

Requirements

Experience shipping metering, entitlements, or billing features in a product with paying customers.
Background in developer-platform or cloud-consumption products where customers pay for what they use.
Track record of connecting pricing or packaging changes to the usage data behind them.
Hands-on fluency in SQL or a BI tool to independently answer most usage and revenue questions before involving Analytics.
Prior ownership of an activation or onboarding journey for technical users, including the metric used to measure it.
Experience owning an end-to-end journey spanning multiple engineering teams.

Nice To Haves

Experience launching a company's first usage-based pricing or prepaid credit model.
Hands-on use of a usage-based billing platform such as Metronome or Paid.
Background in cloud cost management or FinOps products, or enterprise procurement workflows.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end experiences for usage visibility, consumption meters, credits, budgets, alerts, and cost attribution.
Own the activation experience for new customers alongside billing, with scope expected to grow as the product matures.
Partner with Billing, Engineering, Finance, and GTM to translate pricing and packaging decisions into coherent product behavior.
Define experiences for edition selection, entitlements, upgrades, workspace and account billing, and application purchases.
Make compute, storage, networking, and AI usage understandable to admins, developers, and buyers, using APIs and internal dashboards to support forecasting, allocation, and optimization.
Measure customer comprehension, billing accuracy, self-service adoption, and monetization-related friction.
Use AI to help customers understand usage anomalies and optimize costs responsibly.