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title: 'Product Manager - Manage Usage & Cost at Nominal'
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# Product Manager - Manage Usage & Cost at Nominal

- **Company:** Nominal
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $204k–$240k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-11-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/nominal/am9icG9zdDrrEmHlqGoAfKZDgzC8QXEU

## Job description

## About Nominal

Engineers today are building some of the most ambitious machines humanity has ever seen. They should have AI that’s purpose-built for them.

Nominal is building the Hardware Intelligence Platform that gives engineers increased visibility into complex physical systems, helps them make better decisions, and ultimately gets their products into the real world faster. It brings together the systems, data, intelligence, and applications hardware engineering requires to meet the AI moment. Hardware engineering teams use Nominal to simulate, test, manufacture, and operate the physical systems that keep the world moving, from spacecraft and autonomous vehicles to next-generation energy systems and robotics.

Our customers span aerospace, defense, manufacturing, transportation, energy, and robotics. They include Anduril, Shield AI, Wisk Aero, Pratt Miller Motorsports, Antares, and Shinkei Systems, amongst others, alongside programs within the U.S. Air Force and Navy. Our team draws from SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, Applied Intuition, Tesla, and other leading companies, united by a common mission: giving hardware engineers the tools to build the future with speed, safety, and confidence. We're a fast-moving team that owns problems end-to-end, works across disciplines, and thrives at the intersection of hardware and software.

Some of the world’s leading technology investors, including Sequoia, Lightspeed, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Lux Capital, and Insight Partners, are backing Nominal’s ambition to change how machines are built and operated. We’re looking for teammates who want to take on hard problems and help make a new generation of world-changing hardware possible.

🧭 About the role

Nominal's Editions and usage-based pricing only work if customers can see, predict, and control what they consume. The Product Manager - Manage Usage & Cost owns the customer journey for activating Nominal and for understanding, controlling, and optimizing consumption and costs, turning pricing and packaging strategy into transparent, predictable, self-service product experiences. Our first pricing model is already designed, so you'll build on it and own what comes next.

This role is ideal for a PM who is comfortable with usage and financial data and can independently own ambiguous, multi-team journeys. You'll shape which cost, consumption, and activation problems we take on, and your scope can grow to shaping pricing and packaging direction across Product, Finance, and GTM as we test new models.

🚀 What you'll do

- 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 the scope growing as the product matures.
- Partner with Billing, Engineering, Finance, and GTM to turn 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, with APIs and internal dashboards that support forecasting, allocation, and optimization.
- Measure customer comprehension, billing accuracy, self-service adoption, and monetization-related friction, and use AI to help customers understand usage anomalies and optimize cost responsibly.

🔍 We're looking for someone with

- Experience shipping metering, entitlements, or billing features in a product with paying customers.
- A background in developer-platform or cloud consumption products, where customers pay for what they use.
- A track record of tying pricing or packaging changes to the usage data behind them.
- Hands-on fluency in SQL or a BI tool, because you'll answer most usage and revenue questions yourself before going to Analytics.
- Prior ownership of an activation or onboarding journey for technical users, with the metric you used to measure it.
- Experience owning a journey end to end that spanned multiple engineering teams.

⚡ Skills that supercharge us

- 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.
- A background in cloud cost management or FinOps products, or in enterprise procurement workflows.

✨ Benefits/Perks

- 🏥 100% covered health, dental, and vision insurance (for you and your family)
- 🏖️ Unlimited paid vacation
- 👶 12 weeks parental leave
- 🌱 Fertility and family planning ($15,000 lifetime)
- 🍽️ Lunch provided daily
- 💪 Wellness stipend ($100/month)
- 🛠️ $500/year hardware sensor stipend
- 🚀 Learning and development stipend
- 💼 401(k)
- 📈 Employee-friendly equity terms
- 🏢 In-office 5 days per week

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

ITAR Requirements To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR [here](https://www.pmddtc.state.gov/?id=ddtc_kb_article_page&sys_id=24d528fddbfc930044f9ff621f961987).

## About Nominal

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Nominal provides a unified industrial data stack that enables hardware engineering teams to test, analyze, and operate mission-critical systems with the speed of software development.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Los Angeles, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Cameron McCord (Co-founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Aerospace & Defense, Hardware Testing, Industrial Data Infrastructure
- Target customers: B2B – Engineering teams at startups, enterprises, and government agencies building complex hardware (e.g., autonomous vehicles, space systems, hypersonics)
- Mission: "Equip engineers to test and operate critical technology" – delivering the tools and infrastructure to deliver mission-critical capabilities at scale in the shortest time possible.

## Products & Services
- **[Nominal Core](https://nominal.io)**: A cloud-based collaborative workspace that ingests, structures, and analyzes telemetry, logs, video, and simulation results. Provides real-time mission control, trend analysis, and automated reporting to accelerate development, production, and operations. (SaaS)
- **[Nominal Connect](https://nominal.io)**: An edge compute platform for hardware test. Deploys Python-based test apps on-premises, turns scripts into operator-ready interfaces, and runs tests deterministically at the edge (lab, remote range, air-gapped). Automatically syncs results to Core for deeper analysis. (On-premise/Edge software)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$182.5M** across 5 rounds (Seed, Series A, Series B, and a non-equity assistance)
- **Notable Investors**: Founders Fund (led Series B), General Catalyst (led Series A), Lux Capital (led Seed), and Sequoia Capital (partnered 2025)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **+202.5% YoY** to 196 employees (as of 2026)
  - 17,984 LinkedIn followers (+209.7% yearly)
  - Customer Anduril reduced test review time from 5+ hours to near real-time across 300+ engineers
  - Active job postings: 67 (up +346.7% yearly)
  - Offices in Los Angeles (HQ), New York, Austin, Pflugerville (TX)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified platform** that replaces fragmented test tools – one data model for telemetry, logs, video, simulations, and documents
- **Built by engineers from Palantir, SpaceX, Anduril, and Lockheed Martin** – deep domain expertise in mission-critical hardware
- **Edge-to-cloud architecture** that works in air-gapped, offline, and secure environments
- **Enterprise-grade security and scale** with support for startups, large enterprises, and government deployments
- **Open API, SDKs, and integration ecosystem** allowing teams to modernize legacy systems without disruption

## Strategic Focus
- Continue scaling the platform to serve larger defense and aerospace programs (e.g., integrated programs, fleet management)
- Expand into manufacturing test lines and production environments (scaling test code from prototype to manufacturing)
- Deepen government partnerships and secure FedRAMP or similar certifications
- Grow headcount aggressively, especially in engineering, mission operations, and sales roles

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "Engineers building for Engineers" – a tight-knit team of operators and builders from Palantir, SpaceX, Anduril, and more. High ownership, real impact on hardware that flies, launches, or defends.
- **Work Policy**: In-office **5 days per week** (LA, NY, Austin, Pflugerville). Gourmet lunch provided daily.
- **Perks & Benefits**:
  - 100% covered health, dental, and vision insurance (for you and family)
  - Unlimited paid vacation
  - 12-weeks parental leave
  - Fertility and family planning ($15,000 lifetime)
  - $500/year hardware sensor stipend
  - Wellness stipend ($100/month)
  - 401K with employer match
  - Learning & development stipend
  - Employee-friendly equity terms
- **Growth Trajectory**: Over 200% yearly headcount growth, recent Series B funding, and a clear mission to accelerate the "hardware renaissance" – strong signal for career growth and impact.

## Sources
1. [Nominal Careers Page](https://nominal.io/careers)
2. [Nominal About Us](https://nominal.io/about-us)
3. [Nominal Product Page](https://nominal.io/?j=35813&sfmc_sub=16110646&l=1582_HTML&u=1011363&mid=546014653&jb=234&sfmc_id=16110646)
4. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://linkedin.com/company/nominal-inc)
5. [Sequoia Capital Portfolio](https://sequoiacap.com/companies/nominal/)

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