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The suggested salary for this position is $168,100-$205,450*

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VP of Product Marketing job at Kong

Are you ready to power the World's connections?

About the role:

Kong is powering the world's digital connections through leading API management tools. As a series D and pre-IPO company, we are disrupting our category with a strong vision, innovative products and hyper growth. Used by developers across the world, Kong’s open source API Gateway product has been downloaded over 280+Million times and is the most popular API management tool. Kong was built on grit, persistence and a strong vision; our co-founders, Aghi and Marco, envisioned the API economy ahead of the explosion of microservices and the era of microservices containers. Kong is made up of builders, thinkers, and doers focused on helping today’s developers build tomorrow’s technology.

We seek a visionary product marketing leader who can help us tell the story of Kong and the future of modern digital infrastructures. As the VP of Product Marketing, you will be responsible for building and executing the product marketing team and strategy. Reporting to the CMO, you will serve as a strategic partner to leaders across marketing, product, partnerships, sales and customer success. You are process-driven, a passionate people leader and have a proven track-record of building differentiated product stories. You have experience with IT infrastructure products and technical audiences.

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 Do:

Build and lead a high-performing team of product marketers responsible for Kong’s entire product portfolio
Prioritize and manage Product Marketing roadmap, with a focus on scalable full-funnel outcomes
Build scalable processes to drive product marketing activities, including product launches
Be a thought leader in the API Management space and represent Kong in industry events and conversations
Work closely with Product, Marketing and Field teams to build and execute a customer centric go-to-market strategy for Kong’s portfolio of products
Build an effective competitive intelligence program to develop a clear understanding of the market and differentiate Kong’s unique capabilities
Collaborate with Field Enablement to coach and train the field teams on product pitch, value proposition, messaging, ROI, competitive positioning, assets, etc.
Support analyst relations
Influence and guide the product roadmap by acting as the voice of the customer and field teams
Serve as the voice of product to the field teams, driving product value propositions and reducing friction from sales and customer success processes
Lead positioning and messaging efforts with the team to differentiate Kong’s products in the market
Build research and insights driven practices to inform all product marketing activities
Anything else required by manager

Who You Are:

10+ years of experience in product marketing, product management, and/or business strategy
5+ years of experience leading high-performance product marketing teams
Highly collaborative and influential in cross-functional environments. You’ll work with a wide range of stakeholders across marketing, product, developer relations, sales, cx and more
Past experience in management consulting and API management space strongly preferred
You’re passionate about building and leading a team with a coaching mindset, helping your team members learn and grow everyday
Passion for measurable outcomes and continuous experimentation to drive innovation and results

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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