Senior Product Manager, AI Gateway - Shanghai

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 AI connectivity, empowering developers to connect, secure, govern, and scale their AI applications with speed and intelligence. Our AI Gateway is one of Kong's most strategic and fastest-growing products, and we're growing the team to match.

• We're looking for a Senior Product Manager to join the AI Gateway product team, based in our Shanghai office. You'll be the product owner for AI Gateway's data plane, as well as the infrastructural work that connects the AI Gateway data plane to Kong's broader platform, including the control plane, Kong Konnect, and Kong Operator.

• You'll work in close partnership with the broader AI Gateway research & development team, with a focus on driving definition and delivery of features and cross-team product work, collaborating with engineering teams primarily in Shanghai, but also globally, while also supporting the field activities, including product marketing, sales, and enablement. This is a high-impact, hands-on product management role that reports directly to our Director of AI Products.

• Have 7-10 years of product management experience, with a track record of owning and shipping technical products — ideally in infrastructure, developer tools, or platform software.

• Have experience driving product delivery across distributed teams — you're comfortable working across time zones, navigating dependencies between teams, and keeping things moving without having direct authority over every contributor.

• Are strong at translating ambiguous technical problems into clear product requirements — you can take a messy infrastructure challenge, break it down, and turn it into a spec that engineering can execute against.

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.