Kong · 4 days ago
Staff Product Designer (Event Gateway)
Kong is a leading developer of cloud API technologies, focused on enabling companies to become API-first and accelerate AI adoption. As a Staff Product Designer, you will collaborate with product managers and engineers to design exceptional user experiences for complex developer-facing products, making a significant impact on the product experience.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingCloud Data ServicesDeveloper APIsEnterprise SoftwareOpen Source
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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
Benefits
Great Place to Work Certified in 2020 & 2021
Company
Kong
Kong is a cloud-native platform that powers API-led connectivity for developer productivity, automating security, and microservices.
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (8)
2024 (6)
2023 (4)
2022 (12)
2021 (6)
2020 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$344.1MKey Investors
Tiger Global ManagementIndex VenturesAndreessen Horowitz
2024-11-19Series E· $175M
2021-02-08Series D· $100M
2019-03-28Series C· $43M
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