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Sr Technical Product Marketing Manager, AI Traffic Management & Registry

Kong konghq.com Open · verified Sep 24, 2026
Remote Denver Full-time Senior Product Marketing

At a glance

Senior Product Marketing role at Kong. Remote, United States · full-time · $153,090–$251,505 base.

SalaryStated by Kong
$153,090 – $251,505
Base salary for this role, in USD per year, as published in the posting.
This role, from KongOur estimate for the market: $160,974–$197,056Median $180,000
Above the market median of $180,000 for senior product marketing roles in Denver, compared against the Denver market.
Worked out from 11 postings that stated pay, median $180,000. Last updated Sep 23, 2026.
RoleProduct Marketing
SenioritySenior
LocationDenver
WorkplaceRemote
EmploymentFull-time
Base pay$153,090–$251,505
PostedSep 14, 2026 · 10d ago
Role brief

Growth Roles summary, based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do

  • Own the technical story for Kong’s AI gateway, guardrails, routing, policy controls, content safety, and agent traffic governance
  • Shape messaging for AI, MCP, and agent registries, including registration, governance, listings, and developer discovery
  • Equip solution engineers, customer success managers, and other technical field teams to sell and support the domain
  • Represent Kong through events, analyst sessions, webinars, customer discussions, demos, blogs, whitepapers, and reference architectures
  • Work with product and launch teams on roadmap framing, campaign inputs, proof points, and technical demo assets

What you bring

  • At least seven years in product marketing, product management, or solutions engineering, preferably with an AI or ML platform
  • Practical interest in LLM deployment, agentic frameworks, Model Context Protocol, and AI governance
  • Ability to turn complicated technology into clear stories for technical users and C-suite buyers
  • Strong cross-team collaboration across Product, Marketing, Sales, and Partner groups
  • Comfort presenting keynotes, analyst briefings, customer roundtables, and demo-led sessions

Who this fits

You’ll fit a senior technical marketing role focused on AI traffic management, registries, discovery, and enterprise adoption. The work suits someone who can speak credibly with AI platform engineers, create detailed technical content, and mentor technical storytelling across the AI portfolio. The role is remote in Denver, United States, and the listing favors experience with open-source software, SaaS platforms, enterprise go-to-market work, and the AI connectivity landscape.

From the employer

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

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.

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