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Sr. Staff Product Manager
North America Remote (US & Canada)
Eligible for work authorization sponsorship
Kong is building the future of API management for developers. We’re a fast-growing, well-funded company with happy customers and motivated employees.
This role is about leading the next phase of growth for our Insomnia product. Since being acquired by Kong in 2019, Insomnia has operated as an independent product with its own go-to-market approach and was nurtured in our CTO office. Now, it’s becoming part of the product organization, an important step in integrating it as a key piece of Kong’s portfolio. In this position, you’ll guide Insomnia’s development by focusing on enhancing the core product, improving user activation flows, building enterprise features, and exploring new, innovative ideas. You’ll work closely with design, analytics, and engineering to make a real impact on how developers around the world manage APIs.
What you’ll do:
- Define Product Strategy: Own and evolve the roadmap for Insomnia, balancing the needs of our open-source community, enterprise customers, and long-term growth goals.
- Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with design, analytics, and engineering to deliver high-impact features, ensuring everything we ship meets developer needs.
- Be the Voice of Insomnia: Advocate for the product across teams, from presenting new ideas to leadership to demoing features for sales teams.
- Monitor and Improve Metrics: Use data-driven insights to prioritize features, improve user activation flows, and track success across key metrics.
What you’ll bring:
- At least 8+ years of related experience, ideally in a developer tool SaaS product or similar
- Demonstrated experience driving revenue success of a bottoms-up product or feature
- Proven ability to make the right decisions in both high-data and low-data situations
- Experience managing products with a product-led motion
- Experience working with sales and sales enablement teams
- High agency
Why work at Kong?
- Market Opportunity - We are on a quest to build a $10b+ software company over the next few years and need YOUR help!
- Why APIs Matter? APIs have been enabling innovation for decades!
- 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.
- Marco, our CTO/co-founder - “We are the Cisco of L4 and L7” - CUBE Conversation, March 2021
- We are the leading innovator in the connectivity space!
- Amazing Team & Culture - Come be a "Konger" and find out what we mean.
- Great Place to Work Certified in 2020 & 2021
- Kong employees exemplify our culture at our 2022 Sales Kickoff
- 2022 Forbes Cloud 100 Honoree
- Building Great Products - Learn why the world's largest companies love our tech!
- Kong Named in the Leaders Quadrant of the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for API Management for the Fourth Consecutive Year
- Over 250m+ downloads of our open source API gateway! Over 40k+ stars on Github between Kong API and Kong Insomnia!
Kong has different base pay ranges for different work locations within the United States, 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. US based employees are typically offered access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan, short and long term disability benefits, basic life and AD&D insurance, among others. The typical base pay range for this role in the US is $177,0300 - $243,393.
About Kong:
Kong is THE cloud native API platform with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world (over 300m downloads!). Loved by developers and trusted with enterprises’ most critical traffic volumes, Kong helps startups and Fortune 500 companies build with confidence – allowing them to bring solutions to market faster with API and service connectivity that scales easily and securely.
83% of web traffic today is API calls! APIs are the connective tissue of the cloud and the underlying technology that allows software to talk and interact with one another. Therefore, we believe that APIs act as the nervous system of the cloud. Our audacious mission is to build the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind!
For more information about Kong, please visit konghq.com or follow @thekonginc on Twitter.
We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
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