Principal Product Manager – Open Meter & Billing

Kong Inc.

Leading product management for AI-driven metering and billing solutions at Kong. Driving strategy and market positioning to enhance software monetization.

Posted 4/23/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Open Source

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the strategy and narrative.
Set the roadmap.
Own competitive positioning.
Lead go-to-market.
Drive cross-team alignment.
Shape the open source strategy.
Drive the product.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Founder experience.
Deep technical fluency.
Domain experience.
Exceptional written communication.
Strong product judgment under ambiguity.
Bias toward simplicity.
Nice to have: Background in API infrastructure, FinOps, or AI infrastructure, experience leading open-source product strategy.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

API infrastructureFinOpsAI infrastructure

Soft Skills

exceptional written communicationstrong product judgmentbias toward simplicity