Principal Product Manager - Open Meter & Billing
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Kong is building the monetization layer for the AI and API economy. Our Metering & Billing platform powers usage-based pricing for companies selling AI tokens, agents, GPU compute, and APIs.
We're hiring a Sr. Staff or Principal Product Manager to run it like a founder. This is the product leadership seat for Kong Konnect Metering & Billing: you'll own the strategy, the roadmap, the narrative, and the outcome. We're writing this role specifically for ex-founders. You'll have the scope, the autonomy, and the executive air cover to operate as a founder.
Kong is the cloud connectivity company. Our platform handles trillions of API calls and is trusted by some of the largest companies in the world. Metering & Billing is one of our highest-leverage bets: as AI shifts software pricing from seats to consumption, every company building on Kong needs a way to meter and monetize what they ship.
You'll be the product leader shaping that layer, with founder-level scope, executive air cover, and a clear mandate to win the category. Strategy, product, go-to-market, positioning, hiring input, exec communication: not a slice of it, all of it. You'll make real decisions with real consequences, on a product that matters to the company, in a market you can feel moving in real time.
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.
Stock Options
Unlimited PTO
Sabbatical
Company Shutdown Days
Home Office Stipend
Work From Anywhere
Team Events & Social Budget
Defined Career Pathways