Sr Technical Product Marketing Manager, AI Traffic Management & Registry

Kong
Denver
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 153,090 - 251,505 annuallyFunction: Marketing & GrowthExperience: 7+ yearsSkills: ["Technical storytelling","Communication","Collaboration","Evangelism","Mentorship"]

Own the technical narrative for Kong’s AI traffic management capabilities, including the AI gateway/guardrails that securely route and govern LLM, MCP, and agent traffic in production. Lead positioning for AI, MCP, and agent registries across listing, registration, governance, and developer discovery. Serve as a technical evangelist and content driver—demos, blogs, whitepapers, and reference architectures—while enabling Solution Engineers and Customer Success with domain-specific messaging.

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Sr Technical Product Marketing Manager, AI Traffic Management & Registry

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Job Summary

Own the technical narrative for Kong’s AI traffic management capabilities, including the AI gateway/guardrails that securely route and govern LLM, MCP, and agent traffic in production. Lead positioning for AI, MCP, and agent registries across listing, registration, governance, and developer discovery. Serve as a technical evangelist and content driver—demos, blogs, whitepapers, and reference architectures—while enabling Solution Engineers and Customer Success with domain-specific messaging.
Location: Denver
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Marketing & Growth
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own positioning and messaging for AI traffic management, including LLM routing, policy enforcement, content safety, and multi-agent traffic governance
  • •Drive the registry and discovery story for AI, MCP, and agent registries, covering listing, registration, governance, and developer discovery
  • •Lead technical field enablement within the domain for Solution Engineers, Customer Success Managers, and other technical field roles
  • •Serve as a technical evangelist through industry events, analyst briefings, webinars, customer conversations, and technical content production
  • •Partner with product management on roadmap narrative and deliver technical positioning, proof points, and demo assets for launches and campaigns

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 153,090 - 251,505 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years of experience in product marketing, product management, or solutions engineering, ideally at an AI/ML platform company
  • •Hands-on interest in AI infrastructure, including LLM deployment, agentic frameworks, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and AI governance
  • •Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear narratives for technical practitioners and C-suite buyers
  • •Strong collaboration across Product, Marketing, Sales, and Partner teams
  • •Experience with open-source software, SaaS platforms, and enterprise go-to-market motions strongly preferred
Experience:7+ yearsAI/MLOpen-sourceSaaSEnterprise go-to-market
Skills:Technical storytellingCommunicationCollaborationEvangelismMentorship
Tech Stack:LLMMCPModel Context ProtocolAI governanceAI gatewayGuardrailsLLM routingPolicy enforcementContent safetyMulti-agent traffic governanceAI registriesAgent registriesAPI gatewaysVector databasesAI observabilityAgentic orchestration frameworksReference architecturesDemosWhitepapers

Company Brief

Kong
Provides a cloud-native API and service connectivity platform (Kong Gateway, Konnect, Kuma, Insomnia) that secures, manages, and observes APIs and microservices for enterprises across cloud and hybrid environments.
Industry: API Platforms
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 100M to 250M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2017
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Glassdoor: 3.9
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