The Staff Product Designer will lead design projects for developer-focused products, champion customer understanding, drive alignment, and mentor junior designers.
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Senior Product Designer
North America Remote (US & Canada)
Eligible for work authorization sponsorship
Kong is building the future of API management for developers. We’re a fast-growing, well-funded company with happy customers and motivated employees.
As a Senoir Product Designer at Kong, you’ll collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to understand customer needs and craft exceptional solutions for our customers. Because we’re a small team, you have the opportunity to make a significant impact on our end-to-end product experience. Given the technical nature of our product, an ideal candidate will have familiarity with using or designing developer experiences.
What you’ll do:
- 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.
What you’ll bring:
- At 6+ years of related experience, with at least one experience designing for a developer-focused product
- 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
A portfolio that demonstrates expertise in all phases of design, including:
Kong has different base pay ranges for different work locations within the United States, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets. Compensation varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to specific candidate location, role, skill set and level of experience. Certain roles are eligible for additional rewards including sales incentives depending on the terms of the applicable plan and role. Benefits may vary depending on location. US based employees are typically offered access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan, short and long term disability benefits, basic life and AD&D insurance, among others. The typical base pay range for this role in the US is $153,300 - $210,683.
About Kong:
Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, is on a mission to enable companies around the world to become “API-first” and securely accelerate AI adoption. Kong helps organizations globally — from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises — unleash developer productivity, build securely, and accelerate time to market. For more information about Kong, please visit www.konghq.com or follow us on X @thekonginc.
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Top Skills
Design Systems
Ui Design
Ux Design
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