Product Lead – Compliance Development Kit, CDK

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• You manage CDK as if it were your own enterprise, focusing on outcomes rather than mere outputs—prioritizing adoption, conversion, expansion, and reliability over specifications written or features delivered. You are the sole point of accountability for these metrics across Legal, Engineering, Design, GTM, and Customer Success.

• Drive the growth of CDK as a product line. Take ownership of its evolution from a configuration tool to a compliance platform that others rely on, along with the adoption, revenue, and expansion that validate its success. Your decisions on what to develop, postpone, or discontinue will be evaluated based on outcomes rather than a feature backlog.

• Enter new verticals. Transform the regulation-agnostic engine into generated revenue across new categories—such as AI, regulated commerce, and other emerging sectors—by creating generalizable primitives instead of one-off solutions for individual customers.

• Define the primitives. Identify the essential abstractions that distinguish CDK (such as permission strings, jurisdictional rule engines, and consent orchestration) and collaborate with engineering to develop them.

• Oversee the pod, not just the roadmap. You are responsible for the "what" and the "why," and then lead the execution—managing the cadence, resolving blocks, and conducting detailed discussions with engineering, rather than merely handing off a presentation. Pure strategists who delegate execution will not thrive here, nor will those who focus on execution without taking ownership of the strategic direction.

• Ensure resilience at scale. CDK maintains compliance for tens of millions of users; you share the responsibility of adapting as legal requirements evolve, working closely with engineering rather than relegating it to them.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of product management experience with a proven history of managing technically intricate platforms, infrastructure, or developer tools.

• Outstanding product and operational judgment in environments with high ambiguity.

• Ability to interpret API documentation, engage in discussions about system architecture trade-offs, and think systemically.

• A strong productization instinct: you can differentiate between what “one customer desires” and what “the market requires.”

• Exceptional speed and clarity in communication, with proactive updates on status, obstacles, and trade-offs shared with leadership.

• Superior taste in product design and well-formed opinions on what constitutes excellent developer and end-user platforms.

• You can align stakeholders in Legal, Engineering, GTM, and customers without waiting for consensus—and you excel at saying no when necessary.

• Experience in delivering products that comply with actual regulations, such as children's privacy or online safety (COPPA, GDPR-K, the UK Online Safety Act, the DSA, Australia's Online Safety Act), or related regimes like KYC, payments, or restricted goods, with a clear understanding of the changes your product underwent as a result.

• A background in managing a rules or policy engine where identical inputs yield different outcomes based on jurisdiction, age, or risk level, along with an understanding of the challenges in maintaining compliance as laws evolve.

• Proven experience in developing verifiable parental consent, age assurance/estimation, or age-gating processes, and the ability to enhance completion rates throughout a multi-step funnel, rather than merely launching the flow.

• Experience managing a developer product (APIs, SDKs, or drop-in widgets) and evaluating performance based on integration time and time-to-first-value instead of feature count.

• Familiarity with config-as-code, entitlement systems, or versioned configuration (including branches, diffs, and test-to-live promotions), and an understanding of the distinction between hardcoding rules and building adaptable systems.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) – offering genuine participation in the company's success.

• Comprehensive health coverage, including medical, dental, and vision, alongside wellbeing support.

• Direct collaboration with founders and product leadership, gaining exposure to some of the world's largest platforms as they launch products reliant on your work.

• A cooperative, low-politics, trust-based culture focused on developing technology that enhances internet safety for children without compromising the experience for others.