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Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager, Agent Identity & Auth (EMEA)
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · EMEA
Experience
Senior · 5+ years
Job description
Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager for Agent Identity & Auth at Kong, owning the positioning, messaging and category narrative for how agents and other non-human actors are authenticated, authorized and governed. The role is EMEA-based and focuses on technical content, field enablement and strategic deal support.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · EMEA
What you'll do
- Own positioning and messaging for agent identity and auth — define the technical narrative for how Kong authenticates, authorizes, and governs agents and other non-human actors across AI and API traffic
- Shape the category — develop thought leadership that frames the agent identity problem for the market and establishes Kong's point of view through blogs, talks, analyst conversations, and industry engagement
- Lead technical field enablement — own enablement in this domain for Kong Solution Engineers, Customer Success Managers, and other technical field roles
- 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
- Support strategic deals — serve as the subject-matter expert for sales conversations where agent identity and security are strategic decision criteria, particularly with security and platform engineering buyers
- Fuel launches and campaigns — deliver technical positioning, proof points, and demo assets as structured inputs to the AI PMM's launch and campaign motions
- Partner with product management — inform roadmap framing and capability naming based on market feedback, competitive dynamics, and buyer research
What we're looking for
- 5+ years of experience in product marketing, product management, or solutions engineering - ideally at an Identity and Access Management (IAM) and/or AI Security company
- A genuine, hands-on interest in AI infrastructure; follows developments in LLM deployment, agentic frameworks, the Model Context Protocol, and AI governance, and can speak credibly to AI platform engineers without bluffing
- A proven ability to translate complex technical concepts into crisp narratives that land with both technical practitioners and C-suite buyers
- Highly collaborative - thrives working across Product, Marketing, Sales, and Partner teams
- Comfortable owning a stage: keynote presentations, analyst briefings, customer roundtables, and demo-heavy sessions
Nice to have
- Experience in open-source software, SaaS platforms, and enterprise go-to-market motions is 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 Inc.
The AI Connectivity Company
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.
Mission
Building the connectivity layer of AI
Key facts
- Trusted by the Fortune 500® and AI-native startups alike
- Unified API and AI platform
- Works on any model, any cloud