Principal Product Manager – Open Meter & Billing

🕒 April 23

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

✅ Product Manager

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Kong Inc.

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2017

🔌 API

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $100M Series D on 2021-02

API • SaaS • Enterprise

Kong Inc. is a company that provides a comprehensive API platform designed to facilitate API management, AI integration, and developer productivity. It offers solutions like Kong Gateway, Kong Konnect, and a variety of other tools targeted at managing and optimizing the API lifecycle. Kong's platform supports multi-cloud environments and is built to deliver high performance and security. It is notably recognized by Gartner as a leader in API management and supports innovations across industries like financial services, healthcare, and technology. The company emphasizes flexibility, security, and speed, making it a favored choice for enterprises looking to enhance their digital services through APIs. Kong also supports a robust community of developers and provides extensive integrations and plugins to streamline API management and operations.

📋 Description

• Own the strategy and narrative. • Set the roadmap. • Own competitive positioning. • Lead go-to-market. • Drive cross-team alignment. • Shape the open source strategy. • Drive the product.

🎯 Requirements

• Founder experience. • Deep technical fluency. • Domain experience. • Exceptional written communication. • Strong product judgment under ambiguity. • Bias toward simplicity. • Nice to have: Background in API infrastructure, FinOps, or AI infrastructure, experience leading open-source product strategy.

🏖️ Benefits

• Kong is the cloud connectivity company. • Our platform handles trillions of API calls and is trusted by some of the largest companies in the world. • Metering & Billing is one of our highest-leverage bets: as AI shifts software pricing from seats to consumption, every company building on Kong needs a way to meter and monetize what they ship. • You’ll be the product leader shaping that layer, with founder-level scope, executive air cover, and a clear mandate to win the category. • Strategy, product, go-to-market, positioning, hiring input, exec communication: not a slice of it, all of it. • You’ll make real decisions with real consequences, on a product that matters to the company, in a market you can feel moving in real time.