design
Posted Jun 2Staff Design Technologist
at Konghq
United StatesHybrid
Requirements
- About the Role: Kong is building the future of AI connectivity and API management.
- Our design systems practice is already strong — you'll contribute across all of it while helping us push into new territory: AI-enabled design workflows, deeper design ↔ engineering convergence, and how we design for emerging agent-driven experiences.
- What you'll do: Lead AI-enabled design workflows - Build and maintain our AI prototyping starter kits, repos, and conventions - Write internal scripts, tools, and workflows that accelerate how the Product Design team works - Experiment with MCP Apps (ext-apps) and emerging agent UI patterns — helping establish how Kong designs for AI-native and agent-driven experiences - Stay close to what's emerging in AI tooling and enable the team on the latest best practices Be a bridge between design and engineering -
- experience in Design Engineering, Product Design, Design Systems, or similar hybrid roles — rooted in design - Strong product and visual design instincts, especially for technical or developer-focused products - Technical fluency with modern frontend systems — enough to collaborate deeply with engineers, contribute meaningfully to shared systems, and build internal tooling - Hands-on
- experience with AI tooling, prototyping workflows, or building design-adjacent scripts and automations - Familiarity with Figma ↔ code workflows — CodeConnect, design tokens, component APIs, Storybook, or similar -
- Experience working closely with both designers and frontend engineers as a collaborative partner - Genuine excitement about where AI is taking product development — and the initiative to help your team get there - Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to build trust across disciplines - Strong systems thinking and ability to balance short-term pragmatism with long-term scalability Portfolio expectations: A portfolio, site, and/or repo demonstrating: - Strong visual and
- Trusted by the Fortune 500 and startups alike, 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.
Contact
- For more information, visit www.konghq.com http://www.konghq.com.
Additional details
- Are you ready to unlock intelligence? 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.
- We're hiring a Staff Design Technologist to sit at the intersection of product design, design systems, and frontend implementation — shaping how design and engineering work together more effectively at scale.
- We're looking for someone with strong product and visual design instincts who has the technical fluency and collaboration skills to bridge design and engineering.
- Roughly half your time will be in design tools; the other half in code, tooling, and cross-functional collaboration