Remote - Washington Full-time USD 171,000 – 240,000 / year

Kong is hiring a Senior Staff Product Manager

Responsibilities

  • Define the long-term vision for pricing, usage tracking, access controls, and invoicing systems.
  • Determine which capabilities should be standardized across the platform versus built as isolated features, and plan delivery to balance speed and sustainability.
  • Design and implement a comprehensive entitlement model that governs customer access across the product suite.
  • Ensure entitlements are treated as a core system element, consistently represented in contracts, enforced in software, managed through provisioning, and reflected in billing.
  • Serve as the primary technical and product liaison for monetization initiatives.
  • Operationalize pricing and packaging strategies by configuring plans, adjusting usage measurement, updating contract logic, managing customer transitions, and protecting revenue continuity.
  • Manage the full lifecycle of usage data, including event collection, aggregation, and reporting tools that show customers their consumption and charges.
  • Maintain strict standards for financial accuracy, audit trails, and reconciliation capabilities.
  • Own the customer journey for plan selection, upgrades, renewals, lapses, and reactivation.
  • Oversee plan discovery, payment processing, subscription state management, retry logic, dunning workflows, and self-service billing interfaces.
  • Integrate enterprise sales and partner channels with billing systems, including quote-to-entitlement synchronization, custom contract handling, invoice-based billing, and marketplace integrations across major cloud providers.
  • Replace manual provisioning and fulfillment workflows with automated, product-native processes.
  • Lead the migration from legacy metering and billing infrastructure to a modern, scalable system aligned with new pricing models.
  • Establish key performance indicators for the monetization domain, such as net revenue retention, billing-related churn, dispute rates, collections timelines, and support burden.
  • Use data to guide priorities and ensure team accountability for business outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Set a multi-year direction for how Konnect prices, meters, entitles, and invoices.
  • Decide what becomes shared platform capability versus what stays feature-specific, and sequence delivery so near-term work lands without creating long-term drag.
  • Build the entitlements model that determines what every customer can access within Konnect.
  • Make entitlements a first-class concept that is consistently defined in contracts, enforced in-product, honored by provisioning, and reflected in billing.
  • Act as the product and systems counterpart to Monetization.
  • Translate pricing and packaging decisions into production reality: configuring plans, reshaping metering, updating contracts, coordinating customer migrations, and making sure a rollout doesn't disrupt existing revenue.
  • Run the event pipeline, aggregation layer, and reporting experiences that show customers what they consumed and what they are being charged.
  • Hold a financial-grade bar on accuracy, auditability, and reconcilability.
  • Own how customers self-serve onto a plan, change plans, renew, lapse, and recover.
  • Cover plan discovery, checkout, the underlying payments integration, subscription state, retries and dunning, and the admin surfaces where customers manage their own billing.
  • Connect enterprise sales and channel motions to the billing stack: CPQ-to-entitlement sync, bespoke contract handling, invoice-based billing, and marketplace billing across AWS, GCP, and Azure as we expand our presence there.
  • Replace today's manual, high-touch provisioning and fulfillment processes with productized, automated workflows.
  • Migrate off the current metering and billing system onto a target stack that supports the new pricing and packaging framework.
  • Define the health metrics for the domain, including net revenue retention, billing-driven churn, invoice dispute rate, collections aging, and billing support ticket load.
  • Use health metrics to set priorities and hold the team accountable for results.
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Kong
Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, is building the infrastructure that powers the agentic era. 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.
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Job Details
Department Product
Category product
Posted 2 months ago