Are you ready to power the World's connections?
Kong is building the future of API and AI infrastructure, empowering developers to connect, secure, and scale their applications with speed and intelligence. As a fast-growing and well-funded company, we take pride in our innovative products, happy customers, and strong values-driven culture.
As a Senior Staff Product Manager for Kong’s AI Gateway, you will lead one of our most strategic product bets. The AI Gateway is a first-of-its-kind infrastructure layer built to govern, secure, and accelerate GenAI adoption within modern enterprises. It is deeply aligned with how large-scale AI applications are evolving — toward agents, orchestration, and composable function architectures.
In this role, you will work closely with a world-class engineering team and partner directly with Kong’s CTO and co-founder to shape product direction. You will own the product end-to-end: from roadmap to execution, enterprise GTM, and customer success. This role spans deep technical work, strategic storytelling, and strong cross-functional execution across product, engineering, and field teams.
At Kong, you’ll operate in a small and high-impact environment where your decisions will shape how some of the world’s largest companies build with AI.
Kong has different base pay ranges for different work locations within the United States, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets. Compensation varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to specific candidate location, role, skill set and level of experience. Certain roles are eligible for additional rewards including sales incentives depending on the terms of the applicable plan and role. Benefits may vary depending on location. US based employees are typically offered access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan, short and long term disability benefits, basic life and AD&D insurance, among others. The typical base pay range for this role in the US is $177,030 - 221,287.
About Kong:
Kong is THE cloud native API platform with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world (over 300m downloads!). As the innovation leader of cloud API technologies, Kong is on a mission to enable companies around the world to become "API-first" and securely accelerate AI adoption. Kong helps organizations globally - from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises - unleash developer productivity, build securely and accelerate to market.
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 X. 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.