Senior Staff Product Manager, API Consumption

July 13

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Kong Inc.

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The cloud connectivity company. Powering connections to build a reliable digital world.

API • APIs • web services • Cloud Services • big data

201 - 500

💰 $100M Series D on 2021-02

Description

• Driving the overall strategy and roadmap for your area, including defining the priorities and tracking the success of the features. • Managing a wide-breadth of deliverables that requires coordination across multiple engineering, design and product teams. • Establish product requirements based on an intimate knowledge of the specific target customers, the competitive landscape, and key data. • Define and analyze metrics that inform the success of products. Identify and track key performance metrics. • Work in a cross-functional and collaborative role spanning multiple teams including product, design, data & product analysts, engineering, sales, and professional services. • Collaborating with other product owners, design, and engineering to bring your ideas to market through rapid iteration. • Be a technical, strong and eloquent product advocate that thinks API first. • Partner closely with design to create an efficient and straightforward user experience that delights users.

Requirements

• Experience collaborating directly in git on things like docs, specs, and configuration • Technical understanding of general credential management across multiple types of identity providers • A desire to get hands on with operating and configuring Kong’s gateways and other products • 4 years of Product Management experience, preferably in SaaS, enterprise software, or developer tooling • Understanding of how B2B go-to-market motions work. • Proven ability to: • build out product needs and determine research required to inform product decisions. • align and drive cross-functional work, particularly with engineering, through to completion. • manage expectations cross-departmentally (included but not limited to executives, engineering, product, sales, marketing, and documentations) and orchestrate full-scale launch of new product features. • lead research that enables you and the team to develop deep empathy with users and design clean experiences that solve their problems in a technically efficient way. • synthesize findings and craft a compelling narrative that inspires those you work with on a regular basis. • form a sound strategy that guides prioritization in complex and ambiguous environments. • launch products with the field team and the ability to handle and engage in escalation conversations from customers and prospects. • High bar of excellence in output and execution including attention to detail, willingness to receive feedback and adjust, set commitment expectations and honor those commitments.

Benefits

• Strong VC team, Series D, strong year-over-year revenue growth! • Technical Leadership - We are recognized as the leader in innovation in the connectivity space. • Great Place to Work Certified in 2020 & 2021 Best Workplaces in 2022 • Kong Named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant