Kong
Sr Technical Product Marketing Manager, AI Traffic Management & Registry
California, United States · Senior
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About the role
- Every enterprise deploying AI at scale faces the same challenge: governing an explosion of LLM, MCP, and agent traffic while giving developers a way to discover and consume AI resources safely.
- This is a core technical marketing role on the AI team, covering the most contested competitive ground in the market.
- Serve as technical evangelist - represent Kong at industry events, analyst briefings, webinars, and customer conversations; produce technical content including demos, blogs, whitepapers, and reference architectures
Responsibilities
- Own positioning and messaging for AI traffic management - define and evolve the technical narrative for Kong's AI gateway and guardrails capabilities, including LLM routing, policy enforcement, content safety, and multi-agent traffic governance
- Drive the registry and discovery story - build positioning for AI, MCP, and agent registries, covering listing, registration, governance, and the developer discovery experience
- Lead technical field enablement for your domain - own product enablement within your domain for Kong Solution Engineers, Customer Success Managers, and other technical field roles
- Produce deep technical content - build demos, reference architectures, technical whitepapers, and documentation-adjacent content that helps architects and security teams evaluate and adopt Kong's approach
- Partner with product on roadmap narrative - work closely with product management to shape how new capabilities are framed, named, and sequenced for maximum market impact
- Fuel launches and campaigns - deliver technical positioning, proof points, and demo assets as structured inputs to the AI PMM's launch and campaign motions
Requirements
- Proven ability to translate complex technical concepts into crisp narratives that land with both technical practitioners and C-suite buyers
- you can speak credibly to AI platform engineers without bluffing
Nice to have
- 7+ years of experience in product marketing, 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.
- Kong Inc., the AI Connectivity Company, is building the connectivity layer of AI.
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