Sr. Product Manager Product Manager

 

Senior Product Manager

 

About the role:

 

Kong is looking for an experienced and self-motivated technical product manager to join our growing global team and be responsible for the core engine at the heart of Kong’s offerings.  We are looking for a person who can both define vision and drive execution of a software product that is by developers and for developers.

 

What You’ll Be Doing

• Owning the overall open source gateway product roadmap, including defining the priorities and tracking the success of the Kong gateway.
• Working closely with product marketing and field teams on enablement, messaging, and go-to-market approaches.
• Working with internal stakeholders, 3rd party partners, and the broader Kong community on defining the Kong extensibility experience.
• Working with our developer advocacy team on engaging and exciting the Kong user base.
• Working alongside the rest of our product management, development, and go-to-market teams to define how features should be licensed (open source, free but not open source, paid, or SaaS-only).

What You’ll Bring

• Background in product management (ideally 3+ years).
• A quantitative product management mindset and ability to use tools (Splunk, SQL, etc) to achieve quantitative answers.
• Experience working with APIs and developers as a primary product audience (ideally: familiarity with the API gateway space).
• Understanding of how B2B go-to-market motions work (ideally experience helping manage products that have both SaaS and on-premise offerings).
• Experience in open core/open source is prefered: we need to figure out sustainable business practices built on top of open source as a team.
• Excellent communication skills: both written and verbal.
• Flexibility to a changing set of opportunities and fluency in a fast-paced environment.