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Senior Product Marketing job at Kong

Are you ready to power the World's connections?

If you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box - we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.

About The Role:

Innovate Fast or Die Fast: Nearly 40 percent of technology leaders believe their organization will go under or get acquired within 3 years if they lag behind in digital innovation. Today almost all businesses have embraced microservices architectures as an innovation driver to accelerate innovation efforts and stay competitive.

That’s where Kong comes in: As you decouple your monolith into microservices or build new cloud-native apps with Kubernetes you face new challenges in providing reliable and secure connectivity across every cloud, platform and protocol. Kong Enterprise is a platform that provides reliable, secure and observable end-to-end connectivity, full lifecycle API management, while giving developers unprecedented architectural freedom. Kong is based on open-source and the Kong Gateway Community is the most popular gateway in the world with more than 200 million downloads. We don’t stop there: We just launched our new service mesh to enable the microservices revolution. Join our team to be part of this journey.

Why should you want to work at Kong?

Market Opportunity - We are on a quest to build a $10b+ software company over the next few years and need YOUR help!

- APIs are driving innovation across every industry!

- Strong VC team, Series D, strong year over year revenue growth!

Technical Leadership - We are recognized as the leader in innovation in the connectivity space.

- Marco, our CTO/co-founder - “We are the Cisco of L4 and L7” - CUBE Conversation, March 2021

- We are the leading innovator in the connectivity space!

Amazing Team & Culture - Come be a "Konger" and find out what we mean.

- Great Place to Work Certified in 2020 & 2021

- Kong employees discuss our culture at our 2020 Company Kickoff

Building Great Products - Learn why the world's largest companies love our tech!

- Kong Named a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant

- Over 250m+ downloads of our open source API gateway! Over 40k+ stars on Github between Kong API and Kong Insomnia!

What You'll Be Doing

Execution of all aspects of the go-to-market
Create technical product positioning and messaging that resonates with customers
Provide a sales kit to the field across acquisition, retention and expansion phases that is highly adopted by the field
Enable the field to effectively sell Kong’s products and services
Support marketing tactics to generate pipeline, bookings and conversion targets
Support impactful launches to introduce new products into the marketplace
Capture the success our customers have with Kong
Arm the sales team with ambitious strategies and competitive intelligence that increase sales productivity and pipeline conversion
Support the partner team to create a flourishing ecosystem
Represent Kong externally at conferences and in customer meetings in a credible and compelling manner
Consistently meet commitments with high-quality deliverables
Work cross-functionally and develop strong internal and external relationships
Create and communicate long-term vision for your team

What we are looking for

3-5 years of experience in product and solutions marketing
Strong customer orientation
Strong technical skills in areas such containers, kubernetes, microservices, serverless, network and security
Domain expertise in the cloud and with SaaS, including self-serve models
Strong analytical skills, strong communication skills and demonstrated ability to partner
Bachelor’s degree, ideally in a technical field of study from a top university

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

What is a Konger?

We are a group of makers, thinkers, and doers focused on helping today’s developers build tomorrow’s technology. Our teams work on the bleeding edge of API innovation to provide our users with a central nervous system for data and services.

We put design at the heart of everything we do, and we’re relentlessly focused on creating beautiful experiences for our customers. That’s why technology companies, major banks, e-commerce innovators, and government agencies put Kong in front of their most important web applications.

We believe in the power of Open Source and everything it stands for. That’s why developers around the world enthusiastically contribute on top of our open-source platform.

We are passionate about solving challenges that will fundamentally shape the future of technology, and we’re looking for the right people to join us on our mission. If you believe in taking ownership of your work, making an impact, and having fun along the way, we would love to talk to you.

Kong Core Values:

Be Inclusive. We work together from anywhere to achieve our common goals. Our differences make us stronger.

Be Authentic. We are genuine, principled and confident without arrogance. Show respect and kindness, especially in tough moments.

Be Relentlessly Resourceful. We work with purpose, obsession and grit. It takes muscle to do hard things and doing hard things build muscle.

Be Customer Obsessed. We care. Customers are everything, we put them at the center of everything you do. We are all empowered to make an impact.

Be Curious. We value ideas over hierarchy. Never accept the status quo. We make bold bets, fail, and learn everyday. There is always a way.

Be an Owner. We are drivers not passengers and own the quality and outcomes of our work.

About Kong:

Kong creates software and managed services that connect APIs and microservices natively across and within clouds, Kubernetes, data centers and more using intelligent automation. Built on an open source core, Kong’s service connectivity platform enables digital innovation by allowing organizations to reliably and securely manage the full lifecycle of APIs and services for modern architectures, including microservices, serverless and service mesh. By providing developer teams with unprecedented architectural freedom, Kong accelerates innovation cycles, increases productivity, and seamlessly bridges legacy and modern systems and applications. For more information about Kong, please visit konghq.com or follow @thekonginc on Twitter.

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