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Full-Time

Principal Product Manager

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ngrok

ngrok

51-200 employees

API-first ingress-as-a-service platform

Compensation Overview

$188k - $255kAnnually

+ Equity

Expert

Remote in USA

Category
Product Management
Product Strategy
Product
Required Skills
Communications
Requirements
  • 10+ years of experience as an individual contributing Product Manager or developer
  • Experience product managing large distributed products
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Software engineering background
  • Prior experience at a startup
  • Passion and empathy for building products for developer audiences, leveraging your own experience as a developer to understand their needs and challenges
  • We’d love to see a mix of experience with the following technology areas: API Gateways, Application Gateways, Software Networking, HTTP, DNS, BGP, VPC, VPN, Kubernetes, Load Balancers, Wireshark, DDoS, CDN, WAF, Firewall, Wireguard
Responsibilities
  • Develop expertise on the ngrok product, our market, our competition
  • Author product specifications based on customer use cases and prioritize the requirements
  • Bring market observations and customer feedback into technical conversations with engineering
  • Charter new projects, with your role as product owner from the beginning
  • Evangelize our vision to internal and external stakeholders
  • Represent the customer and be their champion in conversations with engineering
  • Proactively seek the input you need to make critical, strategical prioritization decisions for the product roadmap

ngrok is an API-first ingress-as-a-service platform that provides connectivity, security, and observability to applications, offering features such as OIDC/SAML Single Sign-On, OAuth Authorization, Mutual TLS Authorization, and SSH Access. It is used by over 5 million developers and recommended by category leaders including Twilio, GitHub, Okta, Microsoft, Zoom, and Shopify.

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$50M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2015

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

-2%

1 year growth

1%

2 year growth

79%
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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • The $50 million Series A funding provides significant capital for growth and innovation.
  • The launch of always-on Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) enhances reliability and performance for global users.
  • New SDKs and developer documentation improve accessibility and ease of use, fostering a strong developer community.

What critics are saying

  • The competitive landscape in API management and ingress solutions is intense, requiring continuous innovation to maintain market position.
  • Reliance on a pay-as-you-go model may lead to revenue volatility, especially if customer usage patterns fluctuate.

What makes ngrok unique

  • Ngrok's API gateway as a service simplifies ingress management, setting it apart from traditional API management solutions.
  • The introduction of a pay-as-you-go pricing model offers flexibility and cost-efficiency, appealing to a broad range of customers.
  • Ngrok's focus on security, including OAuth and Webhook validation in its free plan, enhances its value proposition in a competitive market.