Staff Product Designer (Dev Portal)

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.

Kong is building the future of API and AI management. We’re a fast-growing, well-funded company with happy customers and motivated employees.

As a Staff Product Designer at Kong, you’ll collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to understand customer needs and craft exceptional solutions for our customers. Because we’re a small team, you have the opportunity to make a significant impact on our end-to-end product experience.

Because Kong builds highly technical products for developers, an ideal candidate has experience designing complex B2B or developer-facing products and is comfortable working with metrics, instrumentation, and experimentation in deeply technical environments.

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• At least 6+ years of related experience, ideally in a developer tool SaaS product or similar

• A portfolio that demonstrates expertise in all phases of design, including:

  • Leading a collaborative design process from definition to delivery

  • Conducting your own user research

  • Making data-informed design decisions

  • Positively impacting customers and improving business metrics

  • Demonstrating strong communication and storytelling skills (written and verbal)

  • Using and contributing to a shared design system and team processes

  • Crafting aesthetically-pleasing and pixel-perfect final UI

• Comfort designing for developer experiences, including complex workflows, technical concepts, and system constraints

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Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, is building the infrastructure that powers the agentic era. Trusted by the Fortune 500 and startups alike, Kong's unified API and AI platform, Kong Konnect, enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI models. For more information, visit www.konghq.com.