Kong
Staff Product Manager, AI Management
San Francisco, California, United States · Staff+
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About the role
- If you don't think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply.
Responsibilities
- Lead cross-departmental strategy as a multiplier across engineering, design, product marketing, and executive leadership to align shared roadmaps without operational friction.
- Own the full lifecycle of your product modules by writing precise specs, prioritizing backlogs, and balancing new feature delivery against technical debt and platform dependencies.
- Drive cross-product work connecting AI Management to Kong's core platform infrastructure, enabling seamless data plane and control plane integration.
- Speed up the clock on high-velocity delivery cadences in close partnership with engineering leads to scope work, navigate trade-offs, and accelerate time to market.
- Support regional field activities, customer-facing technical engagements, and sales enablement to validate product-market fit and ensure developer delight.
- Collaboration: You lead like an API by working cross-functionally, breaking down silos, and building alignment across global teams.
- Kong Inc., the AI Connectivity Company, is building the connectivity layer of AI.
- Trusted by the Fortune 500® and AI-native startups alike, Kong's unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic - on any model, any cloud.
- As a Staff Product Manager for AI Management, you will own the product direction for our fastest-growing agentic AI portfolio-including our flagship AI Gateway-serving as a critical strategic lever in the Agentic Era.
Requirements
- Direct experience with agentic AI development, including AI agents, AI gateways, LLM routing, AI observability, prompt management, guardrails, MCP servers, and A2A communications.
Skills
- For more information, visit www.konghq.com http://www.konghq.com.
Benefits
- Architect and execute the product vision and roadmap for AI Management modules, driving core capabilities around agentic harnesses, LLM routing, policies, context, guardrails, and evaluation.
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.
- At Kong, we are building the future of AI connectivity, empowering developers to connect, secure, govern, and scale their AI applications with speed and intelligence.
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