Senior Staff Product Manager - Konnect

Are you ready to power the World's connections?

Kong is a fully distributed team with an HQ office in San Francisco. This role is remote and open to US and Canadian applicants. The role is eligible for work authorisation sponsorship.

If you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box - we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.

Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?

Kong powers trillions of API transactions for leading organisations globally. Kong’s products make connecting APIs and microservices easier and faster than ever. 

Kong is a Series D company, backed by some of the world’s most respected VCs, including Index, CRV, and Andreessen Horowitz. 

Konnect is a SaaS platform that enables developers to manage APIs at scale. It empowers developers to efficiently publish, consume, secure, analyze, and manage APIs and services across modern and legacy applications on any cloud, platform, protocol, or architecture.

For this role, Kong is seeking an experienced Senior Staff Product Manager to lead platform services.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead the strategic development of Konnect’s flagship product.
• Craft a data-informed product roadmap, defining priorities, and overseeing the success of features.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, design, marketing, and sales teams to bring the product offerings to market and expand our customer base.
• Work closely with our design partners to gather feedback, requirements, and use cases to drive our long-term roadmap.
• Act as a technical advocate, delivering presentations and promoting Kong Konnect’s full-lifecycle API management capabilities.

What You'll Bring:

• 6+ years of software product management experience, preferably with a strong background in SaaS and cloud-based products.
• Knowledge of crafting APIs and SDKs. 
• Exceptional communication skills, capable of articulating complex technical concepts to a diverse range of stakeholders.
• Adaptability and agility in a fast-paced and evolving technology landscape, with a keen eye for emerging trends and technologies.
• Bonus if you’ve developed platform services before at a growing SaaS company. 

About Kong: 

Kong is THE cloud native API platform with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world (over 300m downloads!). Loved by developers and trusted with enterprises’ most critical traffic volumes, Kong helps startups and Fortune 500 companies build with confidence – allowing them to bring solutions to market faster with API and service connectivity that scales easily and securely. 

83% of web traffic today is API calls! APIs are the connective tissue of the cloud and the underlying technology that allows software to talk and interact with one another. Therefore, we believe that APIs act as the nervous system of the cloud. Our audacious mission is to build the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind!

For more information about Kong, please visit konghq.com or follow @thekonginc on Twitter.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.