Staff Product Manager, Developer Portal

Job Description

Job Description

Are you ready to power the World's connections?

If you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box - we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.

About the role :

Join us in redefining the developer experience at Kong. We're investing heavily in the Konnect Developer Portal, a next-generation, gateway-agnostic API portal designed to empower both developers and non-technical users to craft and publish modern, elegant API product experiences.

The Konnect Developer Portal is more than just documentation—it's the interface for API and AI productization, marketing, and developer self-service. We aim to deliver a seamless, low-friction source-to-publish experience across personas for APIs & AI.

As a Staff Product Manager, you'll own key surfaces in this journey—including the Portal authoring experience, content management system, and end-user experience, as well as partnering with integration tooling teams (e.g., CLI, terraform, and VS Code / Cursor extensions) to develop a word class documentation platform. You'll be joining a high-ownership team investing in deep user experience, generative AI, extensibility, and developer-first integrations. This is a rare chance to work at the convergence of product design, infrastructure, and AI in one of the most critical product areas in the Kong ecosystem.

Who is a good fit?

You are a passionate, self-directed product leader who understands what makes developers tick. You've worked in SaaS or developer platforms, built user-facing tooling, and can navigate both technical implementation details and user experience tradeoffs with ease.

You care deeply about delivering intuitive, delightful developer workflows—and you know how to partner across product, design, and engineering to bring bold ideas to life. If you're excited about designing AI-driven developer tools, building low-code / no-code surfaces, and shaping a core user-facing experience at Kong, we want to hear from you.

What is leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like?

The hiring manager for this role is Ross Kukulinski, Vice President of Product Management, leading the Konnect product team. The Konnect team is made up of individuals with diverse backgrounds who are excited about delivering a new SaaS offering to enable Kong’s customers to operate, scale, and manage APIs in today’s modern application world.

What You'll Do :

Own the Konnect Developer Portal experience—including the Portal Editor, client experience, and publishing toolchain.

Lead product discovery and shape the roadmap in areas such as :

WYSIWYG / Markdown portal editing

Generative AI portal scaffolding and intelligent content management

Developer onboarding and application management

Partner closely with design, engineering, GTM, and customers to define and ship impactful features.

Conduct user research, synthesize feedback, and translate insights into product requirements and prioritization frameworks.

Establish and track KPIs that inform product health, adoption, and monetization success.

Be a strong cross-functional communicator who can align diverse stakeholders and clearly articulate tradeoffs.

What You'll Bring :

Minimum qualifications :

6–8+ years of product management experience in B2B SaaS, developer tooling, or platform product areas.

Deep empathy for developers, with hands-on experience building or supporting developer-facing tools or APIs.

Experience shipping complex product surfaces that span frontend UX, backend integrations, and system design.

Strong collaboration skills and ability to partner with Design and Engineering in high-trust, iterative development.

Ability to define and track success metrics tied to both product outcomes and business goals (e.g., ARR impact).

Familiarity with git workflows, CLI tooling, Markdown documentation, and CI / CD pipelines.

Preferred qualifications :

2 years of building developer-focused user experiences

Experience working with APIs and developers as a primary product audience.

MCP / AI

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About Kong :

Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, is on a mission to enable companies around the world to become “API-first” and securely accelerate AI adoption. Kong helps organizations globally — from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises — unleash developer productivity, build securely, and accelerate time to market. For more information about Kong, please visit www.konghq.com or follow us on X @thekonginc.

Compensation Range : $155.9K - $194.9K