Kong
Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager- AI
United States · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 147 days ago
Vector DatabasesRESTMachine LearningLLMsRAGAgentic AIAI OrchestrationSalesPublic Speaking
About the role
- You have deep familiarity with the AI/ML infrastructure landscape, understand how enterprises govern and operationalize AI, and can connect Kong's platform capabilities to the real-world challenges of AI builders and operators.
- Act as a thought leader in the AI infrastructure and API management space; represent Kong in analyst briefings, industry events, customer advisory boards, and conference keynotes.
- Genuine hands-on interest in AI infrastructure: you follow developments in LLM deployment, agentic frameworks, Model Context Protocol, and AI governance; you can speak credibly to AI platform engineers without bluffing.
Responsibilities
- Help shape the technical narrative for Kong's AI connectivity products-AI Gateway, Agent Gateway, Context Mesh, and MCP Registry-and develop positioning, messaging, and content that resonates with AI platform engineers, architects, and enterprise buyers.
- use the products, understand the technology, and build deep fluency in the underlying protocols (REST, MCP, event streaming) and AI patterns (agentic workflows, RAG, tool calling, multi-agent systems).
- Develop and maintain technical content including solution briefs, white papers, demo narratives, battlecards, and keynote stories that articulate Kong's differentiation in the AI connectivity space.
- Collaborate with Product to shape the AI roadmap by bringing market intelligence, customer feedback, and competitive insights into the prioritization process.
- Partner with Field Enablement to build sales plays, pitch frameworks, and competitive positioning that equips AEs and SEs to win AI-related deals.
- Drive Kong's category creation narrative around "AI Connectivity" and the "full AI data path," helping the market understand why a unified platform beats fragmented point solutions.
- Work closely with Demand Gen and Content teams to develop integrated campaigns that generate pipeline in AI-focused accounts and personas.
- develop proactive counter-positioning and win/loss analysis.
Requirements
- Proven ability to translate complex technical concepts into crisp narratives that land with both technical practitioners and C-suite buyers.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of experience in technical product marketing, technical product management, or solutions engineering-ideally at an AI/ML platform company.
- Experience in open-source software, SaaS platforms, and enterprise go-to-market motions strongly preferred.
Skills
- For more information, visit www.konghq.com http://www.konghq.com.
Company info
- 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.
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