Global Office Manager
Are you ready to power the World's connections?
Why should you want to work at Kong?
Market Opportunity - We are on a quest to build a $10b+ software company over the next few years and need YOUR help!
- APIs are driving innovation across every industry!
- Strong VC team, Series D, strong year over year revenue growth!
Technical Leadership - We are recognized as the leader in innovation in the connectivity space.
- Marco, our CTO/co-founder - “We are the Cisco of L4 and L7” - CUBE Conversation, March 2021
- We are the leading innovator in the connectivity space!
Amazing Team & Culture - Come be a "Konger" and find out what we mean.
- Great Place to Work Certified in 2020 & 2021
- Kong employees discuss our culture at our 2020 Company Kickoff
Building Great Products - Learn why the world's largest companies love our tech!
- Kong Named a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant
- Over 250m+ downloads of our open source API gateway! Over 40k+ stars on Github between Kong API and Kong Insomnia!
Kong is looking for an EMEA Office Manager to oversee day-to-day office operations, office spaces, and employee experience throughout the EMEA region. This role will work closely with Procurement, IT, local employees to manage process, policy, office requirements, vendor management, and fostering a positive workplace culture.
What you'll be doing:
- Office Operations & Administration:
- Oversee and guide EMEA employees on all administrative and operational policy and procedures.
- Lead and develop a distributed team of office coordinators, workplace associates, or front desk staff.
- Act as the central point of contact for all workplace-related issues across departments and regions.
- Assist Procurement in EMEA with localized events, programs, etc.
- Assist People Team in maintaining local workplace health and safety standards across offices.
- Assist as emergency response lead and coordinate fire drills, first aid kits, and safety training globally.
- Facilities Management:Partner with IT to ensure offices are equipped with the appropriate AV, networking, and collaboration tools.
- Administer access controls, badging systems, and visitor management solutions.
- Lead space planning, seating charts, and occupancy management, ensuring effective hybrid work models.
- Workplace Experience & CollaborationChampion a world-class employee experience by fostering a welcoming, inclusive, and productive office environment.
- Coordinate in-office events, onboarding logistics, team gatherings, and culture-building initiatives.
- Oversee snacks, catering, wellness, and sustainability programs where applicable.
What you'll bring:
- Experience in a fast-paced, scaling tech or multinational company.
- Proficiency in tools like Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, and Gable.
- Excellent organizational, communication, and project management skills.
- Familiarity with global labor laws, lease management, and vendor contract negotiation.
- This role may be hybrid or fully remote, but frequent travel (Estimated 25%) may be required to support key office locations.
- Will involve occasional after-hours coordination with regional teams.
We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
What is a Konger?
We are a group of makers, thinkers, and doers focused on helping today’s developers build tomorrow’s technology. Our teams work on the bleeding edge of API innovation to provide our users with a central nervous system for data and services.
We put design at the heart of everything we do, and we’re relentlessly focused on creating beautiful experiences for our customers. That’s why technology companies, major banks, e-commerce innovators, and government agencies put Kong in front of their most important web applications.
We believe in the power of Open Source and everything it stands for. That’s why developers around the world enthusiastically contribute on top of our open-source platform.
We are passionate about solving challenges that will fundamentally shape the future of technology, and we’re looking for the right people to join us on our mission. If you believe in taking ownership of your work, making an impact, and having fun along the way, we would love to talk to you.
Kong Core Values:
Be Inclusive. We work together from anywhere to achieve our common goals. Our differences make us stronger.
Be Authentic. We are genuine, principled and confident without arrogance. Show respect and kindness, especially in tough moments.
Be Relentlessly Resourceful. We work with purpose, obsession and grit. It takes muscle to do hard things and doing hard things build muscle.
Be Customer Obsessed. We care. Customers are everything, we put them at the center of everything you do. We are all empowered to make an impact.
Be Curious. We value ideas over hierarchy. Never accept the status quo. We make bold bets, fail, and learn everyday. There is always a way.
Be an Owner. We are drivers not passengers and own the quality and outcomes of our work.
About Kong:
Kong creates software and managed services that connect APIs and microservices natively across and within clouds, Kubernetes, data centers and more using intelligent automation. Built on an open source core, Kong’s service connectivity platform enables digital innovation by allowing organizations to reliably and securely manage the full lifecycle of APIs and services for modern architectures, including microservices, serverless and service mesh. By providing developer teams with unprecedented architectural freedom, Kong accelerates innovation cycles, increases productivity, and seamlessly bridges legacy and modern systems and applications. For more information about Kong, please visit konghq.com or follow @thekonginc on Twitter.
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