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If you donโt think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box - weโre looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.
About the Role
Kong is building the connectivity layer for the AI era โ securing, governing, and monetizing every LLM, MCP, agent, and API request in production.
As the Product Marketing Manager for our AI portfolio, youโll be the commercial engine behind the fastest-moving part of our business. Working alongside a team of deeply technical product marketers who own positioning for AI traffic management, agent identity, and AI observability, youโll plan the launches, campaigns, and content that drive pipeline.
This is a high-leverage execution role. Youโll own launches, content, and campaign execution across the entire AI portfolio, serving as the single interface between AI R&D and the demand generation, field marketing, and sales teams that bring our story to market.
What Youโll Do
- Own launch execution across the AI portfolio โ Manage the launch calendar, tiering framework, and cross-functional launch process for all AI product releases, coordinating inputs from technical PMM specialists into cohesive go-to-market moments.
- Drive campaign strategy and content โ Partner with demand generation and field marketing to build campaign briefs, messaging frameworks, and content assets (web copy, ebooks, webinars, videos) that translate technical differentiation into buyer-relevant narratives.
- Serve as the commercial interface layer โ Act as the single point of contact between the AI product marketing team and downstream marketing and sales functions, ensuring consistent messaging across every AI offering.
- Support field and partner enablement โ Collaborate with the revenue enablement team to deliver launch-aligned sales assets, talk tracks, and competitive positioning for the AI portfolio.
- Coordinate with event marketing โ Drive AI portfolio presence at flagship events, including product announcements, session content, and booth messaging.
- Measure and iterate โ Track launch and campaign performance, gather field feedback, and continuously refine messaging and asset strategy based on what moves pipeline.
Who You Are
- 2+ years of experience in product marketing, product management, or solutions engineering โ ideally at an AI/ML platform company.
- A genuine, hands-on interest in AI infrastructure. You follow developments in LLM deployment, agentic frameworks, the Model Context Protocol, and AI governance, and can speak credibly to AI platform engineers without bluffing.
- A proven ability to translate complex technical concepts into crisp narratives that land with both technical practitioners and C-suite buyers.
- A track record of developing product launches, sales enablement materials, and competitive intelligence programs that move pipeline and accelerate deals.
- Highly collaborative โ you thrive working across Product, Marketing, Sales, and Partner teams.
- Comfortable owning a stage: keynote presentations, analyst briefings, customer roundtables, and demo-heavy sessions energize you rather than intimidate you.
- Experience in open-source software, SaaS platforms, and enterprise go-to-market motions is strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with the AI connectivity landscape โ including awareness of competing and complementary vendors across API gateways, AI observability, vector databases, iPaaS, and agentic orchestration frameworks โ is a strong plus.
About Kong:
Kong Inc., the AI Connectivity Company, is building the connectivity layer of AI. Trusted by the Fortune 500ยฎ and AI-native startups alike, Kongโs unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic โ on any model, any cloud. For more information, visit www.konghq.com.
