Kong
Staff Design Technologist
United States · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 50 days ago
A/B TestingFigmaDesign SystemsAccessibilityCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- the other half in code, tooling, and cross-functional collaboration
- Stay close to what's emerging in AI tooling and enable the team on the latest best practices
- Audit and identify opportunities to reduce one-off patterns and improve cross-product cohesion
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain our AI prototyping starter kits, repos, and conventions
- Write internal scripts, tools, and workflows that accelerate how the Product Design team works
- Experiment with MCP Apps (ext-apps) and emerging agent UI patterns - helping establish how Kong designs for AI-native and agent-driven experiences
- Build trusted, ongoing relationships with frontend engineers
- Help reduce drift between design and implementation systems, in service of both teams
- Collaborate with your design systems colleagues, designers, and engineers to identify or revamp reusable patterns
- Help establish a high standard for visual quality, interaction design, and usability across technical product experiences
- Partner with designers to improve consistency, polish, and accessibility
- Lead AI-enabled design workflows
- Be a bridge between design and engineering
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with AI tooling, prototyping workflows, or building design-adjacent scripts and automations
- Strong systems thinking and ability to balance short-term pragmatism with long-term scalability
Skills
- For more information, visit www.konghq.com http://www.konghq.com.
Company info
- 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.
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