EMEA AI Evangelist - Enterprise AI Connectivity

Kong; England; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Kong Inc. seeks an AI Evangelist to drive AI acceleration across EMEA, moving customers from experimentation to governed, production-grade AI. You’ll advise CTOs, CIOs and AI leaders, framing AI connectivity as cost, risk, and revenue. Collaborate with AEs and SEs to win deals and expand AI traffic and revenue.

You will sponsor AI workshops, share best practices across regions, and travel across EMEA to engage customers and events, shaping Kong’s AI platform adoption.

Qualifications

• Deep technical credibility in AI, LLMs and agentic systems, plus APIs, networking and enterprise infrastructure.
• Experience advising or selling to CTOs, CIOs and AI leaders in enterprise contexts.
• Translate complex technical concepts into a clear business case for executives and practitioners.
• Strong facilitation skills to run workshops with senior stakeholders and document outcomes.
• Collaborative style to sharpen AI conversations across sales and engineering teams.
• Experience across EMEA regions and cultures; English fluency required; additional languages a plus.
• Willingness to travel across EMEA for customer engagements and events.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted technical advisor to CTOs, CIOs and AI leaders, and sponsor strategic deals.
• Lead the AI Connectivity Workshop with qualified opportunities, delivering documented use cases.
• Frame AI connectivity in terms executives care about: cost, risk and revenue.
• Run executive briefings and join AI ecosystem conversations with customers.
• Support AEs and SEs in reaching the economic buyer and securing multi-stakeholder buy-in.
• Replicate wins between EMEA and share use-cases across regions.
• Upskill AEs and SEs on AI conversations and agentic positioning.
• Route field use cases and blockers to Product, tracking evolving budget ownership.
• Work within International GTM strategy alongside Sales, SE leadership and Product.

Skills

AI & LLMs

APIs & networking

Enterprise infrastructure

Pre-sales experience

Executive storytelling

Workshop facilitation

Cross-region collaboration

English communication

Job description

Kong Inc. seeks an AI Evangelist to drive AI acceleration across EMEA, moving customers from experimentation to governed, production-grade AI. You’ll advise CTOs, CIOs and AI leaders, framing AI connectivity as cost, risk, and revenue. Collaborate with AEs and SEs to win deals and expand AI traffic and revenue.

You will sponsor AI workshops, share best practices across regions, and travel across EMEA to engage customers and events, shaping Kong’s AI platform adoption.