Staff Product Manager - Kong Gateway Control Plane

October 31, 2024

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Kong Inc.

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API • APIs • web services • Cloud Services • big data

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2017

🔌 API

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $100M Series D on 2021-02

Description

• Are you ready to power the World's connections? • We are looking for a Staff Product Manager to lead our efforts to build the best Control Plane for Kong Gateway and Konnect. • Kong is a fully distributed team with an HQ office in San Francisco. This role is remote and open to EMEA, Canada and US applicants. The role is eligible for work authorization sponsorship. • Why will you enjoy this new opportunity? • In this position you will be the product lead for the Control Plane for Kong Gateway and Konnect, in charge of creating a control plane that can push the boundaries of API management platform for customers of our Konnect API management platform and customers that use the gateway as part of an on-prem API management scenario. • APIs run everything. Kong runs APIs, providing the first unified yet modular API platform trusted by 700+ customers of all sizes across all industries to manage APIs securely across any cloud, team, gateway, protocol, or architecture from one place. • Open source is important, but so is business. Kong is a Gartner Magic Quadrant leader (5 years in a row) with $100M+ ARR. If you join the team, you’ll be part of the rocket ship that is defining an industry.

Requirements

• Empathy, curiosity, and a willingness to try new things. • 4+ years of software product management experience, with demonstrated experience working on complex technical products. • The ability to get hands-on with technical products such as Kong and Konnect and debug when things don’t quite go to plan. • A strong knowledge of API management, and how to create the best Control Plane for API management for SaaS and on-prem scenarios. • 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.