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Staff Product Manager, AI Management — Kong

a16z portfolio7,484 open roles

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$175,000 – $210,000 a year
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San Francisco, California, United States; San Francisco, California, United States
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The Mission

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. 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. You will bridge high-impact technical innovation with enterprise runtime governance, context management, and developer platform experience to turn APIs and AI connectivity into an organizational innovation factory.

What You’ll Do

  • 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.
  • 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.

What You’ll Bring

  • 7-10 years of technical product management experience owning and shipping technical products in developer tools, API platforms, or AI infrastructure.
  • Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical challenges—such as Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, request routing, data plane architectures, and transport trade-offs—into actionable product requirements.
  • Proven track record driving execution and managing dependencies across globally distributed R&D teams.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills to articulate technical strategy across multiple functions and seniority levels.
  • Deep project management instincts to track work, surface blockers early, and keep cross-functional roadmaps on schedule.

The Kong DNA

  • Ownership: You act as a driver, not a passenger, holding yourself accountable for product outcomes, runtime performance, and customer success.
  • Urgency: You model speed and efficiency in everything you do, navigating the fast-paced pre-IPO landscape with grit and focus.
  • Collaboration: You lead like an API by working cross-functionally, breaking down silos, and building alignment across global teams.

Bonus Points

  • Direct experience with agentic AI development, including AI agents, AI gateways, LLM routing, AI observability, prompt management, guardrails, MCP servers, and A2A communications.
  • Familiarity with enterprise platform engineering, Kubernetes, cloud-native architectures, control planes, and data planes.

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About Kong:

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. For more information, visit www.konghq.com.

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