Product Marketing Manager, AI Governance (EMEA)

<p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Are you ready to unlock intelligence?</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h1>Product Marketing Manager, AI Governance (EMEA)</h1><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Location:</strong> EMEA</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>About the Role</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Kong is building the connectivity layer for the AI era — securing, governing, and monetizing every LLM, MCP, agent, and API request in production.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">As the Product Marketing Manager for our AI portfolio, you'll be the commercial engine behind the fastest-moving part of our business. Working alongside a team of deeply technical product marketers who own positioning for AI traffic management, agent identity, and AI observability, you'll plan the launches, campaigns, and content that drive pipeline.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">This is a high-leverage execution role. You'll own launches, content, and campaign execution across the entire AI portfolio, serving as the single interface between AI R&amp;D and the demand generation, field marketing, and sales teams that bring our story to market.</p><h2>What You'll Do</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Own launch execution across the AI portfolio</strong> — Manage the launch calendar, tiering framework, and cross-functional launch process for all AI product releases, coordinating inputs from technical PMM specialists into cohesive go-to-market moments.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Drive campaign strategy and content</strong> — Partner with demand generation and field marketing to build campaign briefs, messaging frameworks, and content assets (web copy, ebooks, webinars, videos) that translate technical differentiation into buyer-relevant narratives.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Serve as the commercial interface layer</strong> — Act as the single point of contact between the AI product marketing team and downstream marketing and sales functions, ensuring consistent messaging across every AI offering.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Support field and partner enablement</strong> — Collaborate with the revenue enablement team to deliver launch-aligned sales assets, talk tracks, and competitive positioning for the AI portfolio.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Coordinate with event marketing</strong> — Drive AI portfolio presence at flagship events, including product announcements, session content, and booth messaging.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Measure and iterate</strong> — Track launch and campaign performance, gather field feedback, and continuously refine messaging and asset strategy based on what moves pipeline.</p></li></ul><h2>Who You Are</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">2+ years of experience in product marketing, product management, or solutions engineering — ideally at an AI/ML platform company.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">A genuine, hands-on interest in AI infrastructure. You follow developments in LLM deployment, agentic frameworks, the Model Context Protocol, and AI governance, and can speak credibly to AI platform engineers without bluffing.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">A proven ability to translate complex technical concepts into crisp narratives that land with both technical practitioners and C-suite buyers.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">A track record of developing product launches, sales enablement materials, and competitive intelligence programs that move pipeline and accelerate deals.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Highly collaborative — you thrive working across Product, Marketing, Sales, and Partner teams.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Comfortable owning a stage: keynote presentations, analyst briefings, customer roundtables, and demo-heavy sessions energize you rather than intimidate you.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience in open-source software, SaaS platforms, and enterprise go-to-market motions is strongly preferred.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Familiarity with the AI connectivity landscape — including awareness of competing and complementary vendors across API gateways, AI observability, vector databases, iPaaS, and agentic orchestration frameworks — is a strong plus.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>About Kong:</strong> </p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Kong Inc., the AI Connectivity Company, is building the connectivity layer of AI. Trusted by the Fortune 500® and AI-native startups alike, Kong’s unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic — on any model, any cloud. For more information, visit <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.konghq.com">www.konghq.com</a>.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p>Find <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.co.uk">Jobs in United Kingdom</a> on Arbeitnow</a>