Sr Technical Product Marketing Manager, AI Traffic Management & Registry

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If you dont think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job please apply. Nobody checks every box - were 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 youll drive positioning evangelism and competitive strategy for Kongs 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 Youll Do:

• Own positioning and messaging for AI traffic management define and evolve the technical narrative for Kongs 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 Kongs 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 PMMs 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 Youll Bring:

• 7 years of experience in product marketing product management or solutions engineeringideally 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 collaborativeyou 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 landscapeincluding awareness of competing and complementary vendors across API gateways AI observability vector databases IPaaS and agentic orchestration frameworksis 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 Kongs 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 .

Required Experience:

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