Kong is looking to redefine the developer experience by investing heavily in the Konnect Developer Portal, a next-generation, gateway-agnostic API portal designed to empower both developers and non-technical users to craft and publish modern, elegant API product experiences. The goal is to deliver a seamless, low-friction source-to-publish experience across personas for APIs & AI.
Requirements
- Minimum qualifications: 6–8+ years of product management experience in B2B SaaS, developer tooling, or platform product areas.
- Deep empathy for developers, with hands-on experience building or supporting developer-facing tools or APIs.
- Experience shipping complex product surfaces that span frontend UX, backend integrations, and system design.
- Ability to define and track success metrics tied to both product outcomes and business goals (e.g., ARR impact).
- Familiarity with git workflows, CLI tooling, Markdown documentation, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Preferred qualifications: 2 years of building developer-focused user experiences
- Experience working with APIs and developers as a primary product audience.
Responsibilities
- Own the Konnect Developer Portal experience—including the Portal Editor, client experience, and publishing toolchain.
- Lead product discovery and shape the roadmap in areas such as: WYSIWYG/Markdown portal editing, Generative AI portal scaffolding and intelligent content management, Developer onboarding and application management
- Partner closely with design, engineering, GTM, and customers to define and ship impactful features.
- Conduct user research, synthesize feedback, and translate insights into product requirements and prioritization frameworks.
- Establish and track KPIs that inform product health, adoption, and monetization success.
- Be a strong cross-functional communicator who can align diverse stakeholders and clearly articulate tradeoffs.
- Partnering with integration tooling teams (e.g., CLI, terraform, and VS Code/Cursor extensions) to develop a word class documentation platform.
Other
- You are a passionate, self-directed product leader who understands what makes developers tick.
- You've worked in SaaS or developer platforms, built user-facing tooling, and can navigate both technical implementation details and user experience tradeoffs with ease.
- You care deeply about delivering intuitive, delightful developer workflows—and you know how to partner across product, design, and engineering to bring bold ideas to life.
- If you're excited about designing AI-driven developer tools, building low-code/no-code surfaces, and shaping a core user-facing experience at Kong, we want to hear from you.
- Strong collaboration skills and ability to partner with Design and Engineering in high-trust, iterative development.
