Sr Technical Product Marketing Manager, AI Traffic Management & Registry

KONG; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Kong Inc. is seeking a Senior Technical PMM to own the technical narrative for AI traffic management and governance. You will craft positioning for the AI gateway, lead field enablement, and drive the registry/discovery story across AI, MCP, and agent registries.

You will also represent Kong at events and produce technical content to guide engineers and executives. You will collaborate with product, marketing, sales, and partners to shape roadmaps and launch motions, mentoring the team to

Qualifications

• 7+ years in product marketing, product management, or solutions engineering in AI/ML contexts.
• Hands-on interest in AI infrastructure like deployment, governance, and runtimes.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into crisp narratives for technical and executive audiences.
• Highly collaborative across Product, Marketing, Sales and Partner teams.
• Comfortable with keynote presentations, analyst briefings and demos.
• Experience with open-source software, SaaS platforms, and enterprise GTM motions.
• Familiarity with AI connectivity landscape and related vendors is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own positioning and messaging for AI traffic management and Kong's AI gateway capabilities.
• Drive the registry and discovery story for AI, MCP, and agent registries.
• Lead technical field enablement for Kong Solution Engineers and other teams.
• Serve as technical evangelist at events, briefings, webinars, and customer talks.
• Produce deep technical content including demos, whitepapers, and reference architectures.
• Collaborate with product to shape roadmap narrative and sequencing for market impact.
• Support launches and campaigns with technical positioning and proof points.
• Mentor the team to raise standards of technical storytelling.

Skills

Product marketing

AI infrastructure

Technical storytelling

Cross-functional collaboration

Public speaking

Open-source / SaaS

AI ecosystem familiarity

Job description

Are you ready to unlock intelligence?

If you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. 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:

Every enterprise deploying AI at scale faces the same challenge: governing an explosion of LLM, MCP, and agent traffic while giving developers a way to discover and consume AI resources safely. This role owns the technical narrative at the heart of that story. As Senior Technical PMM, you'll drive positioning, evangelism, and competitive strategy for Kong's AI traffic management capabilities — the AI gateway and guardrails that secure and control AI traffic in production — as well as our registry and discovery experience spanning AI, MCP, and agent registries. This is a core technical marketing role on the AI team, covering the most contested competitive ground in the market.

What You’ll Do:

• Own positioning and messaging for AI traffic management — define and evolve the technical narrative for Kong's AI gateway and guardrails capabilities, including LLM routing, policy enforcement, content safety, and multi-agent traffic governance

• Drive the registry and discovery story — build positioning for AI, MCP, and agent registries, covering listing, registration, governance, and the developer discovery experience

• Lead technical field enablement for your domain — own product enablement within your domain for Kong Solution Engineers, Customer Success Managers, and other technical field roles

• Serve as technical evangelist — represent Kong at industry events, analyst briefings, webinars, and customer conversations; produce technical content including demos, blogs, whitepapers, and reference architectures

• 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

• Partner with product on roadmap narrative — work closely with product management to shape how new capabilities are framed, named, and sequenced for maximum market impact

• Fuel launches and campaigns — deliver technical positioning, proof points, and demo assets as structured inputs to the AI PMM's launch and campaign motions

• Mentor and elevate — as the senior-most technical PMM on the team, raise the bar for technical storytelling across the AI portfolio

What You'll Bring:

• 7+ years of experience in product marketing, product management, or solutions engineering—ideally at an AI/ML platform company

• Genuine hands-on interest in AI infrastructure: you follow developments in LLM deployment, agentic frameworks, Model Context Protocol, and AI governance; you can speak credibly to AI platform engineers without bluffing

• Proven ability to translate complex technical concepts into crisp narratives that land with both technical practitioners and C-suite buyers

• 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 are energizing, not intimidating

• Experience in open-source software, SaaS platforms, and enterprise go-to-market motions strongly preferred

• 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

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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.