Staff Product Manager, AI Management

The role

You will own the product direction for the agentic AI portfolio, including the flagship AI Gateway. You will architect the product vision and roadmap for AI Management modules and lead cross-departmental strategy.

What you will do

• Architect and execute the product vision and roadmap for AI Management modules.
• Lead cross-departmental strategy across engineering, design, product marketing, and executive leadership.
• Own the full lifecycle of product modules by writing specs and prioritizing backlogs.
• Drive cross-product work connecting AI Management to Kong's core platform infrastructure.
• Partner with engineering leads to scope work and accelerate time to market.
• Support regional field activities, customer-facing technical engagements, and sales enablement.

Required qualifications

• 7-10 years of technical product management experience owning and shipping technical products in developer tools, API platforms, or AI infrastructure.
• Ability to translate complex technical challenges into actionable product requirements.
• Track record driving execution and managing dependencies across globally distributed R&D teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Deep project management instincts to track work and keep roadmaps on schedule.

Nice to have

• Direct experience with agentic AI development, including AI agents, AI gateways, LLM routing, AI observability, prompt management, guardrails, MCP servers, and A2A communications.
• Familiarity with enterprise platform engineering, Kubernetes, cloud-native architectures, control planes, and data planes.

About the company

Kong Inc. is the AI Connectivity Company building the connectivity layer of AI. Their unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic.