Kong
Staff Product Manager, AI Management
$175K–$210K
San Francisco, California, United States · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Experience
- 7-10 years of technical product management experience.
About the job
Owns product direction and delivery for Kong’s AI Management portfolio, including its AI Gateway, connecting AI capabilities with enterprise governance and developer platform needs.
What you'll do
- Set the vision and roadmap for AI Management modules, including routing, policies, context, guardrails, and evaluation.
- Lead cross-functional strategy and manage product lifecycle, priorities, dependencies, and delivery with engineering and other teams.
- Connect AI Management with Kong’s platform infrastructure and support customer-facing engagements and sales enablement.
What they ask for
- 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, including MCP servers, request routing, data plane architectures, and transport trade-offs, into product requirements.
- Track record driving execution and managing dependencies across globally distributed R&D teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication and project management skills.
Nice to have
- Direct experience with agentic AI development and related technologies.
- Familiarity with enterprise platform engineering, Kubernetes, cloud-native architectures, control planes, and data planes.
Pay
$175K – $210K (base salary)
Tools
Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI Gateway, LLM routing, Kubernetes, cloud-native architectures, control planes, data planes, A2A communications
AI focus
Owns product direction for an agentic AI portfolio, including AI gateways, LLM routing, policies, context management, guardrails, evaluation, and related AI platform capabilities.
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