Senior Product Marketing Manager - API and Event Management
Develops positioning, messaging, and content for API and Event Management products targeting platform engineers and enterprise buyers. Partners with Product, Sales, and Marketing to shape roadmaps, enable field teams, and drive pipeline through competitive insights and campaigns. Requires 5+ years in product marketing with developer infrastructure expertise.
What You’ll Do
- 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
Who You Are
- 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
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