Senior Staff Product Designer, Kong
Shared Platform
$183.9-252.8k
Salary applicable to US applicants only.
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Microservice API gateway
Open for applications
Microservice API gateway
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$183.9-252.8k
Salary applicable to US applicants only.
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind!
Role
Who you are
- Given the technical nature of our product, an ideal candidate will have familiarity with using or designing developer experiences
- 8+ years of related experience, with at least one experience designing for a developer-focused product
- 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
- A portfolio that demonstrates shared platform experience, including:
- Working effectively across teams to gather input, generate options, and drive alignment toward a successful conclusion
- Experience redesigning and testing navigation/IA
What the job involves
- As a Principal 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
- Design exceptional experiences: Design experiences that our customers need and love. Lead complex projects from early concepting to final UI design, while upholding our design standards and design system. Apply systems thinking by looking beyond your product area for opportunities to improve overall cohesion and usability
- Champion customers: Take time to understand our customers, their jobs-to-be-done, and infuse this understanding into your work and that of others. Identify and make a compelling case for improving existing areas of our product to better meet the needs of our customers
- Drive alignment: Solicit diverse perspectives, early and often, to strengthen your work. Communicate context, including customer data, business impact, trade-offs, and rationale, to generate alignment and make forward progress
- Demonstrate ownership: Proactively educate people outside of the design team on the best way to work together. Be clear about your priorities and level of urgency. Keep people informed about your progress, risks, and changes to timelines. Take initiative to improve our team and its practices
- Level others up: Role model best practices and mentor junior members of the design team. Share the latest design techniques and tooling. Initiate and lead process improvements and repeatable mechanisms that lead to better product and customer outcomes across design and product
- Be a strategic partner and visionary: Work hand-in-hand with senior leaders in long-term product strategy, visioning, and prioritization. Thoughtfully break down complex, multi-quarter design visions into small steps of customer value, using data to iteratively inform next steps
Our take
Kong provides a cutting-edge API and service lifecycle management platform tailored for modern architectures, such as microservices, containers, cloud, and serverless environments. With a focus on flexibility, scalability, speed, and performance, Kong allows developers and Global 5000 enterprises to securely connect and orchestrate microservice APIs for today's sophisticated applications.
The core products offered by Kong include Kong, an open-source API and Microservices management solution Galileo, a platform for API analytics and debugging; Gelato, a platform for creating developed portals for PIs and Microservices; and API Marketplace, a hub for discovering and publishing cloud APIs. Additionally, the recent introduction of a new collection of AI plug-ins in Kong Gateway 3.6 enhances the platform's capabilities further, reinforcing its commitment to innovation and advancement.
In pursuit of growth, the company is prioritizing expanding its marketing efforts, bolstering its customer service team, and accelerating product development. By focusing on these key areas, Kong aims to continue providing unparalleled solutions and support to its ever-expanding user base in the rapidly evolving landscape of modern application development.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Nov 2024
$175m
SERIES E
Feb 2021
$100m
SERIES D
Total funding: $344.1m
Company benefits
- Flexible time off: Take time to take care of yourself and the things that matter most
- Stock options: We want you to share in our success. That's why stock options are offered to most Kongers
- U-First Fridays: Get 4 hours a month for continuous learning with a book, podcast, or course of your choice
- Virtual events: Stay connected with Donut chats, trivia, fitness challenges, guided meditations, and more
- Dedicated unplug days: Silence those notifications. Enjoy some well-deserved long weekend where the entire team unplugs
- Home office stipend: Build a home office environment tailored to support your productivity
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Augusto Marietti
(CEO)Previously founded Mashape API Marketplace. Before Mashape, Augusto was an SF homeless immigrant from Italy.
Janet Phillips
(Vice President of People)Previously Director at SonicWALL for 5 years and Senior Director at Symantec for 7 years.
Marco Palladino
(CTO)Previously co-founded MemboxX, an online service for storing documents and small pieces of personal data.
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