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Associate Product Marketing Manager
Kong, United States
Experience
1 Year
Salary
Job Type
Job Shift
Job Category
Traveling
No
Career Level
Telecommute
No
Qualification
As mentioned in job details
Total Vacancies
1 Job
Posted on
Oct 27, 2023
Last Date
Nov 27, 2023
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Job Description
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:
We’re seeking an ambitious, creative, tech-savvy product marketer to contribute to the go-to-market motion for both the enterprise and open-source product and help define the future of how organizations manage applications and services. This is an opportunity for the right person to have an outsized impact at a high-visibility company. The best candidate will help raise our product, technical, and solution content to the next level, engaging and activating our customers and users, and fueling our marketing funnel and sales motion. Your work will be noticed, and the impact will be felt by the company and a massive user base and ecosystem.
About you:You have a thirst for learning, and you are always ready to pitch in and try something new. You take initiative and get stuff done. You are comfortable working in fast paced start-up environments. You are a great storyteller. You understand how cutting edge technologies work, and you can translate that into business value. You love creating compelling content. You know how to communicate with different audiences, so your stories and messages resonate. You are inclusive, kind and people enjoy working with you.
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!Why APIs Matter? APIs have been enabling innovation for decades!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 2021We are the leading innovator in the connectivity space!
Amazing Team amp; Culture - Come be a "Konger" and find out what we mean.Great Place to Work Certified in 2020 amp; 2021Kong employees exemplify our culture at our 2022 Sales Kickoff2022 Forbes Cloud 100 Honoree
Building Great Products - Learn why the world's largest companies love our tech!Kong Named a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic QuadrantOver 250m+ downloads of our open source API gateway! Over 40k+ stars on Github between Kong API and Kong Insomnia!What you'll be doing:- Contribute to the creation and execution of the go to market strategy for Kong Gateway Enterprise and Kong Konnect. Generate compelling positioning and messaging for each key audience and use case
- Work cross-functionally to drive messaging through all channels and enable sales with strategies aligned to customer personas and pain points
- Create collateral and assets across the customer journey, including presentations, briefs, white papers, blog posts, and videos for Funnel Marketing
- Become a subject matter expert to evangelize the product, use cases, and best practices to the community. Develop and execute influencer marketing leveraging analysts, press and the community
- Identify and manage key performance metrics to establish customer-focused and results-oriented strategies
- And any additional tasks required by manager
What we are looking for:- 1-3 years B2B product marketing, technical marketing, or product management experience with deep expertise and appreciation for marketing next-generation technology products to both technical and business audiences
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with meticulous attention to detail
- A track record of delivering compelling, breakthrough content targeting technical audiences
- Deep appreciation for open-source and familiarity with prevailing trends in cloud computing, microservices architectures, API management, and DevOps. Expertise in any one of these preferred
- Strong analytical skills, business acumen, and flexibility to manage a changing set of opportunities and fluency in a fast-paced environment
Bonus Points:- Start-up experience preferred
- Public speaking
- MBA
- Experience with product marketing metrics
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