Metronome Hires Two Key Executives Amid Rapid Growth of Usage-Based Pricing and Strong Market Momentum

Seasoned AI and Sales Executives Chris Kent named SVP of Marketing and Tyler Petersen as Head of Go-To-Market

Metronome, the leading usage-based billing platform, today announced two key hires as it continues to establish itself as the leader in enabling fast-growing software and AI companies to modernize pricing and billing to drive growth.

Chris Kent, a seasoned tech entrepreneur and marketing expert, joins as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Tyler Petersen, a proven Go-To-Market (GTM) executive with a track record of driving software as a service (SaaS) revenue growth, joins as Head of GTM.

The additions follow Metronome’s recent $50 million Series C funding round following an 8x increase in dollars billed on the platform in 2024. Metronome now powers billing for 150M+ end users, processing billions in usage-based revenue. OpenAI, Anthropic, Databricks, Confluent, and NVIDIA rely on Metronome to enable growth via billing and pricing—not hinder it.

“As AI redefines how businesses monetize products and drive growth, Metronome enables them to align pricing with value to better serve their customers,” says Scott Woody, Metronome CEO and Co-Founder. “Chris and Tyler have deep experience and expertise in navigating such industry transformations and we’re pleased to add them to the Metronome team.”

Whether companies price products via usage-based pricing (UBP) with seat pricing or switch to UBP altogether, Metronome enables them to launch products faster with ultimate pricing flexibility, connect billing to the product experience, act on usage and spend data, and iterate on pricing without friction.

“I’m thrilled to join Metronome at a time when the entire software industry is undergoing a seismic shift in how value is packaged, priced, and monetized. Traditional pricing models no longer reflect how modern products deliver value — especially in a world powered by AI and automation,” Kent says. Companies need the flexibility to experiment, launch new models, and scale fast — but legacy billing systems hold them back. Metronome is solving that by building the infrastructure for dynamic, usage-based, and outcome-driven monetization. It’s not just better billing — it’s a new growth engine.”

Metronome’s impact on the shift to usage-based pricing recently inspired Forbes to name it one of its "Next Billion-Dollar Startups." Metronome’s 2025 State of Usage-Based Pricing survey shows that 77% of the largest software companies have some form of usage-based pricing. Moving forward, Metronome sees untold opportunity in helping customers incorporate usage, along with a hybrid model, AI agents, and outcome-based pricing.

"We're witnessing the biggest business model transformation in software since the shift to cloud, and AI has accelerated this change dramatically," says Petersen. “As Metronome's Head of GTM, I'm excited to help enterprise leaders navigate this once-in-a-decade opportunity by transforming their billing infrastructure into a competitive advantage that drives unprecedented growth and agility.”

In addition to announcing $50 million in new funding in February, Metronome last fall launched Metronome 2.0, a major evolution of its platform, that expanded the set of customers in Metronome’s sights given enhanced and new features to handle self-serve models, complex enterprise contracts, cloud marketplaces, and more.

About Metronome

Metronome is the leading usage-based billing platform that helps companies launch products faster—easily deploy any pricing today and iterate confidently tomorrow. The company powers billing for some of the fastest-growing startups and enterprises, including OpenAI, Databricks, and NVIDIA. Based in San Francisco, Metronome is a private company backed by investors including NEA, a16z, and General Catalyst. For more information, please visit https://metronome.com/ and see updates on X and LinkedIn.

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“As AI redefines how businesses monetize products and drive growth, Metronome enables them to align pricing with value to better serve their customers,” says Scott Woody, Metronome CEO and Co-Founder.