Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager (Agent Identity & Authentication)

Kong; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible time off

Stock options

U-First Fridays: 4 hours/month for学习

Virtual events

Home office stipend

Dedicated unplug days

Job summary

Kong seeks a Senior Technical PMM for Agent Identity & Auth to define how agents are authenticated, authorized, and trusted across autonomous systems. You will own positioning, create technical content, and enable multiple field teams while shaping the market.

The role focuses on translating complex concepts for both practitioners and C-suite buyers. You will collaborate with Product, Marketing, Sales, and Partners, producing demos, whitepapers, and reference architectures to drive adoption of

Qualifications

• Translate complex technical concepts into crisp narratives.
• Experience with open-source software, SaaS platforms, and enterprise go-to-market motions.
• Collaborate across Product, Marketing, Sales, and Partner teams.
• Lead keynote presentations, analyst briefings, and customer roundtables.
• 5+ years in product marketing, PMM, or solutions engineering in IAM/AI security.
• Knowledge of AI deployment, agentic frameworks, and governance.

Responsibilities

• Own Kong’s narrative for agent identity and auth across AI and API traffic.
• Define technical positioning and enablement for field teams.
• Produce demos, whitepapers, and reference architectures.
• Shape category narratives through blogs, talks, and industry engagement.
• Support strategic deals with subject-matter expertise on agent identity and security.
• Contribute to launches and campaigns with technical proof points.

Skills

Storytelling

Open-source & SaaS

Cross-functional collaboration

Public speaking

IAM & AI security familiarity

AI infrastructure interest

Job description

As enterprises move from AI experiments to production agentic systems, a new problem has emerged: agents are non-human actors that need identity, authentication, and authorization — and the traditional identity stack wasn’t built for them

• This role owns Kong’s story in one of the most important emerging categories in AI infrastructure. As Senior Technical PMM for Agent Identity & Auth, you’ll define how the market understands agent identity: how agents are authenticated, what they’re authorized to access, and how enterprises establish trust and accountability across autonomous systems
• This is a category-shaping role. You’ll build the narrative for a market that’s still being defined, with the opportunity to establish Kong as the definitive voice on non-human identity in agentic architectures
• Own positioning and messaging for agent identity and auth — Define the technical narrative for how Kong authenticates, authorizes, and governs agents and other non-human actors across AI and API traffic
• Shape the category — Develop thought leadership that frames the agent identity problem for the market and establishes Kong’s point of view through blogs, talks, analyst conversations, and industry engagement
• Lead technical field enablement — Own enablement in this 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
• Support strategic deals — Serve as the subject-matter expert for sales conversations where agent identity and security are strategic decision criteria, particularly with security and platform engineering buyers
• Fuel launches and campaigns — Deliver technical positioning, proof points, and demo assets as structured inputs to the AI PMM’s launch and campaign motions
• Partner with product management — Inform roadmap framing and capability naming based on market feedback, competitive dynamics, and buyer research

Benefits

• Flexible time off: Take time to take care of yourself and the things that matter most
• Stock options: We want you to share in our success. That’s why stock options are offered to most Kongers
• U-First Fridays: Get 4 hours a month for continuous learning with a book, podcast, or course of your choice
• Virtual events: Stay connected with Donut chats, trivia, fitness challenges, guided meditations, and more
• Home office stipend: Build a home office environment tailored to support your productivity
• Dedicated unplug days: Silence those notifications. Enjoy some well-deserved long weekend where the entire team unplugs

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

• A proven ability to translate complex technical concepts into crisp narratives that land with both technical practitioners and C-suite buyers
• Experience in open-source software, SaaS platforms, and enterprise go-to-market motions is strongly preferred
• Highly collaborative -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
• 5+ years of experience in product marketing, product management, or solutions engineering -ideally at an Identity and Access Management (IAM) and/or AI Security 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
• Familiarity with the AI connectivity landscape -including awareness of competing and complementary vendors across API gateways, AI observability, vector databases, iPaaS, and agentic orchestration frameworks - is a strong plus