Principal Product Manager - Open Meter & Billing

About this role

Are you ready to power the World's connections?

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 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.

## What you'll do:

• Own the strategy and narrative. Decide where usage-based billing is going over the next three to five years, what Kong uniquely wins, and what we refuse to build. Defend those answers to customers, analysts, the exec team, and the board.
• Set the roadmap. Drive prioritization across metering, prepaid credits, entitlements, invoicing, developer portal monetization, and gateway enforcement.
• Own competitive positioning. Translate our structural advantages (payment-processor independence and open-source) into concrete product bets and sales motions.
• Lead go-to-market. Work directly with sales leadership on pricing, packaging, enablement, and the deals that matter. Be on customer calls, analyst briefings, and conference stages.
• Drive cross-team alignment. Partner with the Gateway team, design team, and Kong's internal product teams.
• Shape the open source strategy. OpenMeter is open source, and that's a strategic asset. Decide how we invest in it, grow it, and convert it.
• Drive the product. Lead product discussions with engineering to set the right foundations that engineering can b...