Senior Product Marketing Manager - API and Event Management

Kong Inc. is a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, and they are looking for a technically-minded Senior Product Marketing Manager. The role involves crafting narratives for Kong’s AI connectivity platform and collaborating with various teams to position Kong’s products effectively in the market.

Responsibilities:

• Help shape the narrative for Kong’s API + Event Management products by developing positioning, messaging, and content that resonates with platform engineers, eventing teams, architects, and enterprise buyers
• Become a product expert across API and Event Management products; understand the technology and API + Event Management best practices
• Develop and maintain seller content including solution briefs, white papers, battlecards, and keynote stories that articulate Kong’s differentiation in the AI connectivity space
• Act as a thought leader in the API and Event management space; represent Kong in analyst briefings, industry events, customer advisory boards, and conference keynotes
• Collaborate with Product to shape the 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
• Work closely with Demand Gen and Content teams to develop integrated campaigns that generate pipeline in focused accounts and personas
• Monitor the competitive landscape across API management and Event management tooling vendors; develop proactive counter-positioning and win/loss analysis

Requirements:

• 5+ years of product marketing experience, with at least 2 years in developer infrastructure, API management, cloud-native, or data streaming technologies
• Proven ability to translate complex technical concepts into crisp narratives that land with both technical practitioners and C-suite buyers
• Track record of developing product launches, sales enablement materials, and competitive intelligence programs that move pipeline and accelerate deals
• Highly collaborative—you thrive working across Product, Marketing, Field, and Developer Relations; you influence without authority and build trust through expertise and follow-through
• 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 API connectivity and Event landscape—including awareness of competing and complementary vendors across API gateways, AI observability, vector databases, IPaaS, and agentic orchestration frameworks—is a strong plus