Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager- AI

What You’ll Do: * Help shape the technical narrative for Kong’s AI connectivity products—AI Gateway, Agent Gateway, Context Mesh, and MCP Registry—and develop positioning, messaging, and content that resonates with AI platform engineers, architects, and enterprise buyers. * Become a hands-on product expert across Kong’s AI connectivity portfolio; use the products, understand the technology, and build deep fluency in the underlying protocols (REST, MCP, event streaming) and AI patterns (agentic workflows, RAG, tool calling, multi-agent systems). * Develop and maintain technical content including solution briefs, white papers, demo narratives, battlecards, and keynote stories that articulate Kong’s differentiation in the AI connectivity space. * Act as a thought leader in the AI infrastructure and API management space; represent Kong in analyst briefings, industry events, customer advisory boards, and conference keynotes. * Collaborate with Product to shape the AI roadmap by bringing market intelligence, customer feedback, and competitive insights into the prioritization process. * Partner with Field Enablement to build sales plays, pitch frameworks, and competitive positioning that equips AEs and SEs to win AI-related deals. * Drive Kong’s category creation narrative around “AI Connectivity” and the “full AI data path,” helping the market understand why a unified platform beats fragmented point solutions. * Work closely with Demand Gen and Content teams to develop integrated campaigns that generate pipeline in AI-focused accounts and personas. * Monitor the competitive landscape across AI gateway, API management, and agentic AI tooling vendors; develop proactive counter-positioning and win/loss analysis.