Staff Design Technologist

🕒 June 2

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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

• Lead AI-enabled design workflows • 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 • Stay close to what's emerging in AI tooling and enable the team on the latest best practices • 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 • Audit and identify opportunities to reduce one-off patterns and improve cross-product cohesion • Contribute to documentation, usage guidance, and governance — and enable the team effectively on changes • Help establish a high standard for visual quality, interaction design, and usability across technical product experiences • Bring strong judgment around when to follow conventions versus when to push forward • Partner with designers to improve consistency, polish, and accessibility

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in Design Engineering, Product Design, Design Systems, or similar hybrid roles — rooted in design • Strong product and visual design instincts, especially for technical or developer-focused products • Technical fluency with modern frontend systems — enough to collaborate deeply with engineers, contribute meaningfully to shared systems, and build internal tooling • Hands-on experience with AI tooling, prototyping workflows, or building design-adjacent scripts and automations • Familiarity with Figma ↔ code workflows — CodeConnect, design tokens, component APIs, Storybook, or similar • Experience working closely with both designers and frontend engineers as a collaborative partner • Genuine excitement about where AI is taking product development — and the initiative to help your team get there • Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to build trust across disciplines • Strong systems thinking and ability to balance short-term pragmatism with long-term scalability

🏖️ Benefits

• health insurance • 401(k) plan • short and long term disability benefits • basic life and AD&D insurance