kong - Principal Product Manager - Open Meter & Billing
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Requirements
• Founder experience. You founded a company, or were an early product leader at one. You know what it means to own an outcome. • Deep technical fluency. You can read an API spec, reason about a data pipeline, have opinions and push back on engineering when the architecture is wrong. You don't need to write the code, but you need to know when it's wrong. • Domain experience. Direct work with billing, payments, pricing, usage data, developer platforms, or financial infrastructure. Bonus if you built the billing system at your own company and hated how hard it was. • Exceptional written communication. Your strategy is clear, and your positioning is sharp. • Strong product judgment under ambiguity. You decide, you flag the rationale, and you update fast when you're wrong. • Bias toward simplicity. Small surface area, strong opinions, clean abstractions. You remove complexity instead of adding it. • Nice to have: Background in API infrastructure, FinOps, or AI infrastructure, experience leading open-source product strategy.
Responsibilities
• Own the strategy and narrative. Decide where usage-based billing is going over the next three to five years, what Kong uniquely wins, and what we refuse to build. Defend those answers to customers, analysts, the exec team, and the board. • Set the roadmap. Drive prioritization across metering, prepaid credits, entitlements, invoicing, developer portal monetization, and gateway enforcement. • Own competitive positioning. Translate our structural advantages (payment-processor independence and open-source) into concrete product bets and sales motions. • Lead go-to-market. Work directly with sales leadership on pricing, packaging, enablement, and the deals that matter. Be on customer calls, analyst briefings, and conference stages. • Drive cross-team alignment. Partner with the Gateway team, design team, and Kong's internal product teams. • Shape the open source strategy. OpenMeter is open source, and that's a strategic asset. Decide how we invest in it, grow it, and convert it. • Drive the product. Lead product discussions with engineering to set the right foundations that engineering can build from.
Benefits
• $192K – $275K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus • Kong has different base pay ranges for different work locations within the United States and Canada, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets. Compensation varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to specific candidate location, role, skill set and level of experience. Certain roles are eligible for additional rewards including sales incentives depending on the terms of the applicable plan and role. Benefits may vary depending on location. US based employees are typically offered access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan, short and long term disability benefits, basic life and AD&D insurance, among others. • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • Add anything else you would like to share. • I prefer not to answer • Another Gender Identity • Heterosexual / straight • Asian or Asian American • Black or African American • Hispanic or Latine • Indigenous or Native American • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander • Person with disability • Refugee or immigrant • None of the above • Yes, Kong can contact me about future job opportunities for up to 3 years. • Note: The consent period lasts for 3 years • Recruiting Privacy Policy • Kong may use Artificial Intelligence with this application. Learn more.
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