Staff Product Manager, AI Management
About The Position
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.
Requirements
- 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.
Nice To Haves
- 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
