Sr. Staff Design Technologist

San Francisco, California, United States · Remotefull timeRemote

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$150k–$250k

H1B: yes

Kong The Sr. Staff Design Technologist at Kong bridges product design, design systems, and frontend implementation to enhance design-engineering collaboration. The role involves leading AI-enabled design workflows, building tools, and driving platform UI cohesion.

Responsibilities

Kong is building the future of AI connectivity and API management. We're hiring a Senior 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.
You'll join our ~20-person Product Design team, reporting to the VP of Design, as the second specialist focused on design systems. 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.
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
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
Build trusted, ongoing relationships with frontend engineers
Help reduce drift between design and implementation systems, in service of both teams
Drive platform UI cohesion

Qualification

Required

8+ years experience in Design Engineering, Product Design, Design Systems, or similar hybrid roles
Strong product and visual design instincts for technical or developer-focused products
Technical fluency with modern frontend systems

Company

Kong

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