Staff Product Manager (AI Management)

Join Kong, a leading company in AI connectivity. As a Staff Product Manager for AI Management, you will own the product direction for our agentic AI portfolio, including our flagship AI Gateway. You will bridge technical innovation with enterprise runtime governance and developer platform experience. Your responsibilities will include architecting and executing the product vision and roadmap, leading cross-departmental strategy, and driving cross-product work. You will also support regional field activities, customer-facing technical engagements, and sales enablement.

- 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.

- 7-10 years of technical product management experience owning and shipping technical products in developer tools, API platforms, or AI infrastructure - 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 - Proven track record driving execution and managing dependencies across globally distributed R&D teams - 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 - If you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box - we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others - 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 - Ownership: You act as a driver, not a passenger, holding yourself accountable for product outcomes, runtime performance, and customer success - Familiarity with enterprise platform engineering, Kubernetes, cloud-native architectures, control planes, and data planes - Direct experience with agentic AI development, including AI agents, AI gateways, LLM routing, AI observability, prompt management, guardrails, MCP servers, and A2A communications