Kong
Senior Product Marketing Manager - API and Event Management
Colorado, United States · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 124 days ago
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About the role
- You have deep familiarity with the Data infrastructure landscape, understand how enterprises govern and operationalize AI, and can connect Kong's platform capabilities to the real-world challenges of connectivity platform builders and operators.
- Become a product expert across API and Event Management products; understand the technology and API + Event Management best practices.
- Act as a thought leader in the API and Event management space; represent Kong in analyst briefings, industry events, customer advisory boards, and conference keynotes
Responsibilities
- Help shape the narrative for Kong's API + Event Management products by developing positioning, messaging, and content that resonates with platform engineers, eventing teams, architects, and enterprise buyers
- Develop and maintain seller content including solution briefs, white papers, battlecards, and keynote stories that articulate Kong's differentiation in the AI connectivity space
- Collaborate with Product to shape the 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
- Work closely with Demand Gen and Content teams to develop integrated campaigns that generate pipeline in focused accounts and personas
- develop proactive counter-positioning and win/loss analysis
Requirements
- 5+ years of product marketing experience, with at least 2 years in developer infrastructure, API management, cloud-native, or data streaming technologies.
- Proven ability to translate complex technical concepts into crisp narratives that land with both technical practitioners and C-suite buyers
Nice to have
- 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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