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Are you ready to power the World's connections?

Starting with the top open source API gateway, Kong products manage reliable digital connections across APIs, hybrid and multi-cloud environments. APIs are at the forefront of modern software development for companies of all sizes, and we are passionate about building products to support our users - developers, operators, and enterprise architects - to master application API deployment and integrations.

This role will be the one of the two most senior product management leaders within the Product organization. You will be responsible for our cornerstone product, the Kong API Gateway, starting from its Core OSS engine, but spawning all of its satellite components across security, admin API, command line interface, plugin ecosystem, distributions and packaging. You will also be in charge or leading product innovation around exciting new areas such as GraphQL and WASM.

Kong is a fully distributed team with an HQ office in San Francisco. The Product team currently has members in San Francisco, Vancouver, New York, and Mexico. The Product team at Kong spans Product Management, Documentation, UI/UX, and Developer Advocacy. This role is remote and open to US and Canadian applicants. The role is eligible for work authorization sponsorship.

In this role you will be developing the existing Kong API Gateway PM team while hiring to grow the team to 10+ PM members within the next 12 months.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Defining the product strategy for the Kong Gateway our flagship product. This strategy will involve Open Source success, Enterprise differentiation, and cloud integration elements.
  • Executing on the product strategy through close collaboration with the rest of the product organization, the engineering team, and the Kong field team.
  • Building and growing the existing Kong PM team. Working with our recruiting team you will be defining a hiring plan and growing the team with world class product management talent.

What You'll Bring

  • Leadership and Management - You seek to build a growing and thriving team of product managers that you will help develop into strong product leaders of the future. You are able to define a hiring plan and execute on it
  • End-user focused - You live and breadth customer success and think about end-to-end use cases. You are detail oriented and broad in product experience thinking - Whole product thinking (onboarding, docs, training, consulting, ...)
  • Curious to understand of space - You are curious to develop a deep understanding of the dynamics of the API and connectivity space associated with overall product. You are able to form solid, data informed opinions about product strategy. You continually evolve these opinions based on OSS community, customer, field, and engineering feedback
  • Technical - You are able to use product and exercise key use cases with a hands-on approach. You are able to help your team in writing solid high level requirements (briefs, epics). You are able to create/deliver technical presentations/content - e.g. blogs, webcasts, conference presentations, ...
  • Great communicator - You enjoy establishing strong communication channels with customers, the Kong field, and Kong engineering team. You are able to get to pain points, rather than be a feature request carrierYou are able to clearly articulate the Kong vision to customers.
  • Execution oriented - You continually fill gaps and remove roadblocks form your team's path so that they may be able to deliver product capabilities with success. You leverage data to improve the execution of your strategy
  • 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.



Summary
Company name: Kong
Remote job title: Senior Director, Product Management
Job tags: open-source, api, dev ops / tech ops, infrastructure, software, saas

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