Principal Product Manager – Open Meter & Billing
Job Description:
• Own the strategy and narrative.
• Set the roadmap.
• Own competitive positioning.
• Lead go-to-market.
• Drive cross-team alignment.
• Shape the open source strategy.
• Drive the product.
Requirements:
• Founder experience.
• Deep technical fluency.
• Domain experience.
• Exceptional written communication.
• Strong product judgment under ambiguity.
• Bias toward simplicity.
• Nice to have: Background in API infrastructure, FinOps, or AI infrastructure, experience leading open-source product strategy.
Benefits:
• Kong is the cloud connectivity company.
• Our platform handles trillions of API calls and is trusted by some of the largest companies in the world.
• Metering & Billing is one of our highest-leverage bets: as AI shifts software pricing from seats to consumption, every company building on Kong needs a way to meter and monetize what they ship.
• You’ll be the product leader shaping that layer, with founder-level scope, executive air cover, and a clear mandate to win the category.
• Strategy, product, go-to-market, positioning, hiring input, exec communication: not a slice of it, all of it.
• You’ll make real decisions with real consequences, on a product that matters to the company, in a market you can feel moving in real time.
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• Own the strategy and narrative.
• Set the roadmap.
• Own competitive positioning.
• Lead go-to-market.
• Drive cross-team alignment.
• Shape the open source strategy.
• Drive the product.
Requirements:
• Founder experience.
• Deep technical fluency.
• Domain experience.
• Exceptional written communication.
• Strong product judgment under ambiguity.
• Bias toward simplicity.
• Nice to have: Background in API infrastructure, FinOps, or AI infrastructure, experience leading open-source product strategy.
Benefits:
• Kong is the cloud connectivity company.
• Our platform handles trillions of API calls and is trusted by some of the largest companies in the world.
• Metering & Billing is one of our highest-leverage bets: as AI shifts software pricing from seats to consumption, every company building on Kong needs a way to meter and monetize what they ship.
• You’ll be the product leader shaping that layer, with founder-level scope, executive air cover, and a clear mandate to win the category.
• Strategy, product, go-to-market, positioning, hiring input, exec communication: not a slice of it, all of it.
• You’ll make real decisions with real consequences, on a product that matters to the company, in a market you can feel moving in real time.
Apply tot his job
Apply To this Job