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Staff Product Manager, Developer Portal

Speed up time to market by unleashing developer productivity, automating security, and streamlining API management.

Kong

Employee count: 201-500

Salary: 156k-195k USD

United States only

Staff Product Manager, Developer Portal

United States Canada(Remote) - Eligible for work authorization sponsorship
Why this opportunity?
Join us in redefining the developer experience at Kong. We're 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 Konnect Developer Portal is more than just documentation—it's the interface for API and AI productization, marketing, and developer self-service. We aim to deliver a seamless, low-friction source-to-publish experience across personas for APIs AI.
As a Staff Product Manager, you'll own key surfaces in this journey—including the Portal authoring experience, content management system, and end-user experience, as well as partnering with integration tooling teams (e.g., CLI, terraform, and VS Code/Cursor extensions) to develop a word class documentation platform. You'll be joining a high-ownership team investing in deep user experience, generative AI, extensibility, and developer-first integrations. This is a rare chance to work at the convergence of product design, infrastructure, and AI in one of the most critical product areas in the Kong ecosystem.
Who is a good fit?
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.
What is leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like?
The hiring manager for this role is Ross Kukulinski, Vice President of Product Management, leading the Konnect product team. The Konnect team is made up of individuals with diverse backgrounds who are excited about delivering a new SaaS offering to enable Kong’s customers to operate, scale, and manage APIs in today’s modern application world.

What You'll Do:

  • 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.

What You'll Bring:

    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.
  • Strong collaboration skills and ability to partner with Design and Engineering in high-trust, iterative development.
  • 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.
  • MCP/AI
Kong has different base pay ranges for different work locations within Canada, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets. Compensation varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to specific candidate location, role, skill set and level of experience. Certain roles are eligible for additional rewards including sales incentives depending on the terms of the applicable plan and role. Benefits may vary depending on location. The typical base pay range for this role in the US is $155,925 - 194,880 USD.

About Kong:

Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, is on a mission to enable companies around the world to become “API-first” and securely accelerate AI adoption. Kong helps organizations globally — from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises — unleash developer productivity, build securely, and accelerate time to market. For more information about Kong, please visit www.konghq.com or follow us on X @thekonginc.

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Speed up time to market by unleashing developer productivity, automating security, and streamlining API management.

Kong powers the API world

Kong provides the foundation that enables any company to become an API-first company — speeding up time to market, creating new business opportunities, and delivering superior products and services.

Built on the world’s most adopted API gateway, Kong’s unified cloud API platform delivers fast, reliable, secure digital experiences. With Kong, organizations can increase developer productivity, security, and performance at scale with a single easy-to-use platform for API management, service mesh, and ingress controller.

We put customers at the heart of everything we do. That’s why everyone from e-commerce startups to the world’s leading biotech companies trust Kong to run mission-critical applications.

We embody open source and everything it stands for. We foster a culture of individualism — encouraging our people to bring new ideas and innovations, regardless of level and function.

How we do it

We’re passionate about solving the challenges that will fundamentally shape the future of tech. If you believe in taking ownership of your work, making an impact, and having fun along the way, come join us!

Global: Be Inclusive. We work together from anywhere to achieve our common goals. Our differences make us stronger.

Real: Be Authentic. We are genuine, pricipled and confident without arrogance. Show respect and kindness, especially in tough moments.

Unstoppable: Be Relentlessly Resourceful. We work with purpose, obsession and grit. It takes muscle to do hard things and doing hard things builds muscle.

Champions: Be Customer Obsessed. We care. Customers are everything, we put them at the center of everything you do. We are all empowered to make an impact.

Explorers: Be Curious. We value ideas over hierarchy. Never accept the status quo. We make bold bets, fail, and learn everyday. There is always a way.

Own It: Be an owner. We are drivers not passengers and own the quality and outcomes of our work.

Employee benefits

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Unplug Days

Kong encourages taking well-deserved long weekends where the entire team unplugs to rest and recharge.

Equity Participation

Kongers are offered stock options to share in the success of the company, aligning employee and company growth.

Virtual Team Events

Kong hosts virtual events, donut chats, trivia, and fitness challenges to keep team members connected and engaged.

Office Stipend

Kong offers an office stipend to help employees build a home office environment tailored to support their productivity.

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