Senior PLG Digital Growth Manager

Kong; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Kong is seeking a Senior PLG Digital Growth Manager to build and scale the product-led growth engine behind our platform. You will own marketing targets for signup growth and lead strategy, experimentation, and execution across acquisition, conversion, and activation.

You’ll work hands-on to optimize the digital journey from discovery to signup, using AI and data to improve quality users and accelerate growth, collaborating with Product, RevOps, and Marketing teams.

Qualifications

• Experience building PLG growth engines across digital funnels
• Ability to own growth targets, roadmap, and execution
• Hands-on in experimentation and optimization
• Collaborate with Marketing, Product Growth and RevOps teams

Responsibilities

• Own PLG growth targets and strategy across acquisition, conversion, and experiments
• Grow qualified product signups by identifying channels, audiences, and experiences
• Optimize landing pages, CTAs, signup paths, messaging, and conversion flows
• Prototype, launch, measure, and iterate growth initiatives
• Leverage AI to scale experiments, personalize experiences, and automate workflows
• Bridge acquisition to activation and revenue through product signals and analytics
• Coordinate across Marketing, Product Growth, RevOps to drive PLG opportunities

Skills

PLG growth

Growth marketing

Experimentation

AI & automation

Data analysis

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

Are you ready to unlock intelligence?

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.

About the Role

Kong is looking for a Senior PLG Digital Growth Manager to build and scale the digital growth engine behind our product-led motion. This role will own Marketing's targets for qualified product signup growth and the strategy, experimentation, and execution required to achieve them. You'll focus on improving the journey from digital discovery through signup, while using downstream activation and product behavior to continuously improve the quality of users we acquire. This is a hands‑on growth role. We're looking for someone who can identify opportunities, build a strategy, and roll up their sleeves to launch and optimize experiments—not simply recommend what other teams should do.

What You’ll Do

• Own PLG growth targets and strategy: Own qualified signup goals and build the growth roadmap required to achieve them across acquisition, conversion, and experimentation.
• Grow qualified product signups: Identify and scale the audiences, use cases, channels, and experiences that bring high-quality users into Kong's products.
• Optimize the digital product journey: Identify friction across landing pages, CTAs, signup paths, messaging, and conversion flows and turn those insights into experiments.
• Build and ship experiments: Personally prototype, launch, measure, and iterate growth initiatives across landing experiences, signup journeys, lifecycle, new acquisition loops, and emerging channels.
• Leverage AI to scale growth: Use AI and automation to accelerate experimentation, uncover insights, personalize digital experiences, automate repeatable workflows, and scale growth programs more efficiently.
• Connect acquisition to activation: Partner with Product Growth to understand which users activate and engage, and use those signals to improve targeting, messaging, and acquisition.
• Turn data into growth: Partner with RevOps on funnel measurement, attribution, cohort analysis, and product signals connecting acquisition to signup to activation to PQL to revenue.
• Orchestrate across Marketing: Work across Digital Experience, SEO/AEO, Paid Media, Lifecycle, Content, and Campaigns to turn PLG opportunities into execution.
• Lead cross‑functional PLG growth: Partner with leaders across Marketing, Product Growth and RevOps to align priorities, influence roadmaps, and turn PLG growth opportunities into execution.

How We'll Measure Success

You’ll be directly accountable for qualified product signup growth and the efficiency of the digital PLG funnel, including:

• Qualified product signups
• Marketing‑sourced activated users
• Web signup conversion
• Experiment velocity and incremental growth

You also use activation, PQL, pipeline, and revenue performance as downstream measures of acquisition quality.