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Kong
About Kong
Kong sells its enterprise platform for API management, event management, agentic AI management and API and AI monetization, and its homepage says Gartner has named it a Leader for the seventh year. Most openings are enterprise account executives on named territories (Northeast, Southeast, Chicago, Dallas, Seattle, San Francisco, public sector, LATAM), backed by staff solutions engineers, technical customer success managers and account development reps. The team works remotely by US state and from London, Paris, Milan, the Benelux, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Dubai, India, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Australia.
Stated by the company
, SalesJobs.Now shows 44 open Kong sales roles; 20 of them print a salary figure.
Kong sales openings
Board read 30 Oct 2026, 18:07 UTC- $260,000–$320,000/yr
- $250,000–$320,000/yr
Staff Technical Customer Success Manager (shows the role here)
Customer success · Remote· 3d agoDetails
$160,000–$200,000/yr- $320,000–$400,000/yr
- $320,000–$400,000/yr
Channel Program Manager (shows the role here)
Partner sales · California, United States· 3d agoDetails
$130,000–$165,000/yr- $170,000–$210,000/yr
- $220,000–$250,000/yr
- $220,000–$250,000/yr
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Kong as an employer
Calls itself the AI connectivity company, covering everything from APIs to LLM access. Posted pay: Stated per posting (stated by the company).
44 sales openings on its careers board right now44 sales openings at Kong, as its own board showed them 30 Oct 2026.
Employee pay with uncapped commission, which its AE postings stress, and equity on most US sales offers.
Remote by US state (California, Texas, New York, Washington, Illinois, Georgia, North Carolina, the DC area and others); London, Paris, Milan, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Dubai, Bangalore, Mumbai, New Delhi, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Australia.
Caveats
- The pay figure is stated by the company: a reference point from research, not a salary read off today's postings, so negotiate from the offer in front of you.
Pay at Kong
Stated by the company, checked 2026-10-30From our research: stated by the company, checked 2026-10-30
US postings show one annual range in Ashby's pay field without saying whether it is base or OTE: $320K to $400K for enterprise account executives, $250K to $320K for an enterprise territory AE, $56K to $70K for an account development rep, with commission and equity flagged. Outside the US only the Italian AE postings give a figure, in euros.
Only 20 of its 44 openings post pay, not enough to call a band typical for Kong, so the figure above comes from research. What each sales role posts:
Sales roles Kong hires for
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Is Kong a good company to sell for?
Calls itself the AI connectivity company, covering everything from APIs to LLM access.
Is Kong still an active employer?
Yes. Calls itself the AI connectivity company, covering everything from APIs to LLM access. How its pay is structured: Employee pay with uncapped commission, which its AE postings stress, and equity on most US sales offers.
What does a sales job at Kong pay?
Stated per posting. US postings show one annual range in Ashby's pay field without saying whether it is base or OTE: $320K to $400K for enterprise account executives, $250K to $320K for an enterprise territory AE, $56K to $70K for an account development rep, with commission and equity flagged. Outside the US only the Italian AE postings give a figure, in euros.
Is selling for Kong worth it?
Posted pay at Kong: Stated per posting (stated by the company). Cloud and developer tools reward reps at ease with engineering buyers and usage-driven expansion.
How is Kong's sales comp put together?
Employee pay with uncapped commission, which its AE postings stress, and equity on most US sales offers.
Where are Kong's sales roles based?
Remote by US state (California, Texas, New York, Washington, Illinois, Georgia, North Carolina, the DC area and others); London, Paris, Milan, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Dubai, Bangalore, Mumbai, New Delhi, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Australia.
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