Director, Product Marketing EMEA
Kong
Marketing & Communications, Product
London, UK
Posted on Oct 5, 2024
Are you ready to power the World's connections?
We seek a visionary product marketing leader who can help us tell the story of Kong Konnect and the future of modern digital infrastructures. As Director of Product Marketing, you will be responsible for leading a product marketing team, as well as helping build and execute the product marketing strategy. Reporting to the Head of Product Marketing, you will serve as a strategic partner to leaders across marketing, product, partnerships, sales and customer success. You are a data and process-driven, passionate people leader and have a proven track-record of building and delivering differentiated product and platform stories to large audiences. You have experience with cloud infrastructure products and their associated technical audiences.
What you'll do:
- Build and lead a high-performing team of product marketers responsible for Kong’s runtime products
- Lead positioning and messaging efforts with the team to differentiate Kong’s offerings within the larger market
- Be a thought leader in the API Management space and represent Kong in internal and external industry events and conversations.
- Be comfortable delivering keynotes in front of large audiences while also being a resource for sales rep in prospect meetings
- Build scalable processes to drive Kong product marketing activities, including content creation, competitive intelligence, product launches, and sales enablement
- Work closely with Product, Marketing and Field teams to build and execute a customer centric product and go-to-market strategy for Kong Konnect
- Collaborate with Field Enablement to coach and train the field teams on the Kong runtimes pitch, value proposition, messaging, ROI, competitive positioning, assets, etc.
- Influence and guide the product roadmap by acting as the voice of the customer and field teams
Who you are:
- Experience in product marketing and/or product strategy
- Experience leading high-performance product marketing teams in cloud native solutions
- 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 open source software, SaaS platforms, moving from on-premises to cloud managed services, 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
About Kong:
Kong is THE cloud native API platform with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world (over 300m downloads!). Loved by developers and trusted with enterprises’ most critical traffic volumes, Kong helps startups and Fortune 500 companies build with confidence – allowing them to bring solutions to market faster with API and service connectivity that scales easily and securely.
83% of web traffic today is API calls! APIs are the connective tissue of the cloud and the underlying technology that allows software to talk and interact with one another. Therefore, we believe that APIs act as the nervous system of the cloud. Our audacious mission is to build the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind!
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.