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The contract for this position is a Full-time contract

What's the salary range for the Senior Product Manager - Konnect position?

The suggested salary for this position is $150,000-$202,210*

Is telecommuting possible for this position?

No, telecommuting is not possible for this position

Senior Product Manager

Are you ready to power the World's connections?

Why should you want to work at Kong?

Market Opportunity

We are on a quest to build a $10b+ software company over the next few years and need YOUR help!

APIs are driving innovation across every industry!

Kong Ranks No. 29 on Inc. Magazine’s List of California’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies

Strong VC team, Series D, strong year over year revenue growth!

Thought Leadership

Kong Named a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant

We are the leading innovator in the connectivity space!

Amazing Team & Culture

Great Place to Work Certified in 2020 & 2021

Dedicated Employee Experience team, strong core values (see below), and a “people first” attitude.

Culture video from our 2020 Company Kickoff

Building Great Products

Over 250m+ downloads of our open source API gateway!

Over 40k+ stars on Github between Kong API and Kong Insomnia!

Launching a full SaaS platform

A bit about Kong

Kong powers trillions of API transactions for leading organizations globally. With Kong’s end-to-end API platform, developers can connect APIs and microservices easier and faster than ever.

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

Why this opportunity?

Join us to build Konnect, the next generation of API technology to power the connected world. Konnect is a SaaS platform that takes the complexity out of API management, enabling companies to build modern applications with ease.

A position on this team offers a fast-paced environment on an early product with a tight knit team. Here you will have the opportunity to shape a new platform from its early years while delving into some of the most technically interesting problems out there.

Who is a good fit?

Kong is looking for a self-motivated product manager who bridges the business, design, and technical worlds. A good fit is a person who can both define vision and drive execution of a software product that is by developers and for developers.

If you thrive in positions with large scope and ownership, derive energy from both quantitative and qualitative research and synthesis, and feel fulfilled when you drive and launch the creation of a product that is used and loved by users, we encourage you to apply.

What You'll Be Doing

Driving the overall strategy and roadmap for your area, including defining the priorities and tracking the success of the features.
Establish product requirements based on an intimate knowledge of the specific target customers, the competitive landscape, and key data.
Define and analyze metrics that inform the success of products. Identify and track key performance metrics.
Work in a cross-functional and collaborative role spanning multiple teams including product, design, data & product analysts, engineering, sales, and professional services.
Collaborating with other product owners, design, and engineering to bring your ideas to market through rapid iteration.
Be a technical, strong and eloquent product advocate that thinks API first.
Partner closely with design to create an efficient and straightforward user experience that delights users.

What You'll Bring

Minimum qualifications:
2 years of Product Management experience, preferably in SaaS or enterprise software.
Understanding of how B2B go-to-market motions work.
Proven ability to:
Use data and research to inform product decisions.
Work cross-functionally, particularly with engineering, to drive an initiative through to completion.
Reach out to customers so as to develop deep empathy with users and design clean experiences that solve their problems in a technically efficient way.
Synthesize research and document your findings clearly and completely.
Develop a strategy that guides prioritization in an ambiguous situation.
Launch products with the field team and answer complex post-sale inquiries.
High bar of excellence in output and execution.
Preferred qualifications:
2 years of design or front-end development experience.
Experience working with API products and developers as a primary product audience.
Familiarity with the Cloud Native ecosystem and Kubernetes.
Experience working on a platform with mission critical services that were easy for developers to build upon and extend.

A Quick Note on Applying

We are exploring candidates coming from different backgrounds of varying expertise.

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.

What is leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like?

The hiring manager for this role is Gabriella Angiolillo, Director of Product Management. She leads the Konnect Platform product teams with an over a decade of enterprise SaaS experience. The Konnect Platform team is made up of individuals with diverse backgrounds who share their ideas, explore the world with curiosity, and desire to work with best-in-class talent to bring novel products to market that solve meaningful problems.

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.

What is a Konger? (see our company values below…)

We are a group of makers, thinkers, and doers focused on helping today’s developers build tomorrow’s technology. Our teams work on the bleeding edge of API innovation to provide our users with a central nervous system for data and services.

We put design at the heart of everything we do, and we’re relentlessly focused on creating beautiful experiences for our customers. That’s why technology companies, major banks, e-commerce innovators, and government agencies put Kong in front of their most important web applications.

We believe in the power of Open Source and everything it stands for. That’s why developers around the world enthusiastically contribute on top of our open-source platform.

We are passionate about solving challenges that will fundamentally shape the future of technology, and we’re looking for the right people to join us on our mission. If you believe in taking ownership of your work, making an impact, and having fun along the way, we would love to talk to you.

Kong Core Values:

Be Inclusive. We work together from anywhere to achieve our common goals. Our differences make us stronger.

Be Authentic. We are genuine, principled and confident without arrogance. Show respect and kindness, especially in tough moments.

Be Relentlessly Resourceful. We work with purpose, obsession and grit. It takes muscle to do hard things and doing hard things build muscle.

Be Customer Obsessed. We care. Customers are everything, we put them at the center of everything you do. We are all empowered to make an impact.

Be Curious. We value ideas over hierarchy. Never accept the status quo. We make bold bets, fail, and learn everyday. There is always a way.

Be an Owner. We are drivers not passengers and own the quality and outcomes of our work.

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