AI Evangelist - EMEA

Kong; England (AR); Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Kong Inc., the AI Connectivity Company, seeks an AI Evangelist to accelerate AI adoption across EMEA, turning experimentation into governed, production AI and agents. You’ll advise CTOs/CIOs and AI leaders, framing AI connectivity value around cost, risk, and revenue, while guiding AEs and SEs in strategic deals.

You will drive AI workshops, enable cross-regional sharing, and bridge technical depth with executive storytelling to secure buy-in and budget alignment.

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of AI, LLMs and enterprise APIs.
• Experience advising CTOs, CIOs and AI leaders at large enterprises.
• Ability to translate complex tech into a compelling business case.
• Strong workshop facilitation with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted technical advisor to CTOs, CIOs and AI leaders, sponsor strategic deals.
• Lead the AI Connectivity Workshop after qualification, delivering documented use cases and handoffs.
• Frame AI connectivity in terms of cost, risk and revenue for executives.
• Run executive briefings and participate in AI ecosystem conversations with customers.
• Support AEs and SEs in reaching the economic buyer and achieving cross-stakeholder buy-in.
• Replicate wins across EMEA and share use cases between regions.
• Upskill AEs and SEs on AI and agentic positioning.
• Route field use cases, blockers and competitive intel to Product; track AI budget ownership.
• Work within International GTM strategy with Sales, SE leadership and Product.

Skills

AI/LLMs expertise

Enterprise tech credibility

APIs & networking

Executive engagement

Job description

Are you ready to unlock intelligence?

About the Role:

The infrastructure layer for the AI shift is being decided now. Kong's edge is field-earned enterprise trust, and you'll extend it into the AI conversation: fluent in where AI is going, and unwavering as an enterprise infrastructure company.

As our AI Evangelist, you'll lead AI acceleration across EMEA, moving customers from AI experimentation to governed, production-grade AI and agents. You'll be the trusted technical advisor to CTOs, CIOs and AI leaders, framing the value of AI connectivity as cost, risk and revenue.

You'll work alongside our Account Executives and Solutions Engineers, not instead of them. They own the deal. You lead the conversation that gets the economic buyer to say yes, and every engagement you run moves AI traffic and AI revenue forward.

What You'll Do:

• Act as a trusted technical advisor to CTOs, CIOs and AI leaders, and sponsor strategic deals.

• Lead the AI Connectivity Workshop once the AE has qualified the opportunity. Each one ends in a documented use case and a technical handoff that accelerates the deal.

• Frame AI connectivity in terms executives care about: cost, risk and revenue.

• Run executive briefings and join AI ecosystem conversations when a customer pulls you in.

• Support AEs and SEs in reaching the economic buyer and in building multi-stakeholder buy-in, including the security leader.

• Replicate wins between EMEA and set up use-case sharing across both regions.

• Upskill AEs and SEs on AI and agentic positioning.

• Route field use cases, blockers and competitive intel into Product, and track how AI budget ownership is evolving inside customers.

• Work within International GTM strategy, in close partnership with Sales, SE leadership and Product.

What You'll Bring:

• Deep technical credibility in AI, LLMs and agentic systems, plus a solid grounding in APIs, networking and enterprise infrastructure.

• Experience advising or selling to CTOs, CIOs and AI leaders at large enterprises, in a pre-sales, solutions, field CTO, technical evangelist or similar role.

• Proven ability to translate complex technical concepts into a clear business case that lands with executives and with practitioners.

• Strong facilitation skills: you can run a workshop with senior stakeholders and leave with a documented use case and clear next steps.

• Comfort working through others. You influence deals without owning them and build trust through expertise and follow-through.

• A collaborative, enabling style: you make AEs and SEs sharper on AI conversations.

• Experience working across regions and cultures, ideally in both EMEA.

• Excellent written and verbal communication in English; additional EMEA languages are a plus.

• Willingness to travel across EMEA for customer engagements and events.

Bonus points:

• Experience at an API management, cloud infrastructure, security or AI platform company.

• A public profile in the AI or developer community, such as speaking, writing or open source.

• Familiarity with AI ecosystem players and how enterprise AI budgets are owned and funded.

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About Kong:

Kong Inc., the AI Connectivity Company, is building the connectivity layer of AI. Trusted by the Fortune 500® and AI-native startups alike, Kong’s unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic — on any model, any cloud. For more information, visit www.konghq.com.