Senior Product Designer at Kong

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
SaaS, API Management, Developer ToolsIndustries

Requirements

  • At least 4+ years of related experience, ideally in a developer tool SaaS product or similar
  • High degree of comfort with using or designing developer experiences
  • Portfolio demonstrating expertise in all phases of design
  • Leading a collaborative design process from definition to delivery
  • Conducting 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

Responsibilities

  • Design exceptional experiences that customers need and love
  • Lead complex projects from early concepting to final UI design, while upholding design standards and design system
  • Apply systems thinking by looking beyond your product area for opportunities to improve overall cohesion and usability
  • Champion customers by understanding their jobs-to-be-done and infusing this into your work and others'
  • Identify and make a compelling case for improving existing areas of the product to better meet customer needs
  • Drive alignment by soliciting diverse perspectives early and often
  • Communicate context, including customer data, business impact, trade-offs, and rationale, to generate alignment and progress
  • Demonstrate ownership by proactively educating people outside the design team on collaboration
  • Be clear about priorities and level of urgency
  • Keep people informed about progress, risks, and changes to timelines
  • Take initiative to improve the team and its practices
  • Level others up by role modeling best practices and mentoring junior design team members

Skills

Product Design
User Research
UI Design
Design Systems
Developer Experience
SaaS Design
Systems Thinking
Storytelling
Collaborative Design
Data-Informed Design

Kong

API management and connectivity solutions provider

About Kong

Kong focuses on API management and connectivity, providing tools that help businesses manage, secure, and optimize their APIs for software communication. Its main product, Kong Gateway, is a fast API gateway that can handle up to 50,000 transactions per second, while Kong Konnect offers a SaaS platform for API management and Kong Mesh manages microservices. Kong stands out by combining open-source technology with enterprise solutions, allowing free access to core features and offering premium services for businesses. The company's goal is to enhance developer productivity, security, and performance for a diverse range of clients in a rapidly growing market.

San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2017Year Founded
$334.7MTotal Funding
SERIES_ECompany Stage
Data & Analytics, Enterprise SoftwareIndustries
501-1,000Employees

Benefits

Weekly Donut Chats
Home Office Stipend
Flexible Time Off & Dedicated Unplug Days
Virtual Events

Risks

AI-enhanced security threats pose significant risks to API security.
Low adoption of zero-trust architecture leaves APIs vulnerable to breaches.
Intensifying competition in AI API platforms may draw customers away from Kong.

Differentiation

Kong's API Gateway supports 50,000 transactions per second, ensuring high performance.
Kong offers a unique combination of open-source and enterprise-grade API solutions.
Kong Insomnia is the fastest-growing platform for building, testing, and debugging APIs.

Upsides

Kong raised $175M to enhance AI connectivity and expand its solutions.
Kong Insomnia surpassed 1 million users, indicating strong demand for its tools.
Kong's Premium Technology Partner Program fosters innovation and collaboration.

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