Staff Product Manager, AI Management

The role

You will be the product owner for agentic AI management and infrastructure products. You will drive feature definition, delivery, and cross-team product work while supporting field activities like sales and product marketing.

What you will do

• Own product direction for AI Management modules including models, context, agentic harnesses, guardrails, evaluation, and policies
• Define requirements, write specs, prioritize the backlog, and drive feature delivery with engineering
• Drive cross-product work connecting AI Management modules to the broader platform
• Navigate shared roadmaps and negotiate priorities across teams
• Own a product roadmap balancing new features, technical debt, and infrastructure work
• Partner with engineering leads to scope work and make trade-off decisions
• Serve as a connective tissue between engineering, design, product marketing, and leadership
• Support regional field activities such as customer-facing calls, product marketing input, or sales enablement

Required qualifications

• 7-10 years of product management experience
• Track record of owning and shipping technical products
• Experience driving product delivery across distributed teams
• Ability to translate ambiguous technical problems into clear product requirements
• Strong written and verbal communication in both languages
• Solid project management instincts
• Comfortable engaging with technical depth regarding MCP servers, transport protocols, request routing, data plane architecture, and infrastructure trade-offs

Nice to have

• Direct experience with agentic AI development and products, including AI agents, AI gateways, and related infrastructure
• Familiarity with enterprise platform engineering and infrastructure, including data planes, control planes, Kubernetes, cloud-native architectures, and/or platform engineering workflows

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.