Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager, Agent Identity & Auth (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><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager, Agent Identity &amp; Auth (EMEA)</strong></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">As enterprises move from AI experiments to production agentic systems, a new problem has emerged: agents are non-human actors that need identity, authentication, and authorization — and the traditional identity stack wasn't built for them.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">This role owns Kong's story in one of the most important emerging categories in AI infrastructure. As Senior Technical PMM for Agent Identity &amp; Auth, you'll define how the market understands agent identity: how agents are authenticated, what they're authorized to access, and how enterprises establish trust and accountability across autonomous systems.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">This is a category-shaping role. You'll build the narrative for a market that's still being defined, with the opportunity to establish Kong as the definitive voice on non-human identity in agentic architectures.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>What You'll Do</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Own positioning and messaging for agent identity and auth</strong> — Define the technical narrative for how Kong authenticates, authorizes, and governs agents and other non-human actors across AI and API traffic.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Shape the category</strong> — Develop thought leadership that frames the agent identity problem for the market and establishes Kong's point of view through blogs, talks, analyst conversations, and industry engagement.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Lead technical field enablement</strong> — Own enablement in this domain for Kong Solution Engineers, Customer Success Managers, and other technical field roles.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Produce deep technical content</strong> — Build demos, reference architectures, technical whitepapers, and documentation-adjacent content that helps architects and security teams evaluate and adopt Kong's approach.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Support strategic deals</strong> — Serve as the subject-matter expert for sales conversations where agent identity and security are strategic decision criteria, particularly with security and platform engineering buyers.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Fuel launches and campaigns</strong> — Deliver technical positioning, proof points, and demo assets as structured inputs to the AI PMM's launch and campaign motions.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Partner with product management</strong> — Inform roadmap framing and capability naming based on market feedback, competitive dynamics, and buyer research.</p></li></ul><h2>Who You Are</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">5+ years of experience in product marketing, product management, or solutions engineering -ideally at an Identity and Access Management (IAM) and/or AI Security company.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>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.</strong></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">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>