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Full-Time

Analyst Relations Sr. Manager

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Kong

Kong

501-1,000 employees

API management and connectivity solutions provider

Enterprise Software
Data & Analytics

Compensation Overview

$150k - $178kAnnually

+ Sales Incentives

Senior, Expert

Remote in USA

Category
Strategy Development
Business Development
Business & Strategy
Required Skills
Communications
Marketing
Requirements
  • Excellent written, communication, and verbal skills
  • Dynamic, creative, and entrepreneurial mindset
  • 5+ years of marketing experience in a Analyst relations role
  • Technical skills set to quickly ramp up on Kong’s API platform and be able to articulate its value to analysts during all interactions.
  • Strong program management skills to manage and orchestrate several stakeholders across the organization when responding to complex questionnaires from analysts (i.e Gartner MQ)
  • Self-motivated, ambitious, and autonomous individual who excels at collaborating with others to achieve and exceed results.
Responsibilities
  • Create, nurture, and manage positive relationships with industry analysts, serving as a key, centralized contact point and connector.
  • Work with designated product marketing managers and product teams to execute an AR program that influences, educates, and secures endorsements from leading analysts in our most important topic areas.
  • Develop and implement an analyst relations program to support communications and marketing initiatives with analyst research and industry validation including timely updates, analyst inquiry, research services, and field education programs.
  • Act as an advisor on how the analyst firms can contribute to marketing campaigns and internal understanding of the markets and competitors.
  • Manage a data-driven and measurement-rich analyst relations program including:
  • Maintaining an analyst knowledge base that tracks the most relevant and influential global analysts, strategic research reports, and their interactions with global media, financial markets, and customers.
  • Monitoring analyst research agenda and coverage, and creating a forward-looking research and engagement calendar.
  • Cataloging research and our responses to serve as a history, learning reference, and reliable source of curated research responses.
  • Project managing, preparing submissions and presentations, and assisting with contributed stories, press releases, quotes, and case studies.
  • And any additional challenges and tasks to help support Kong’s growth.

Kong specializes in managing and connecting APIs, which are tools that allow different software applications to communicate. Its main product, the Kong Gateway, is a fast and flexible API gateway that efficiently handles API traffic, supporting up to 50,000 transactions per second per node. Additionally, Kong offers Kong Konnect, a SaaS platform for API management, and Kong Mesh, which helps manage microservices—small services that work together in larger applications. Kong serves a wide range of clients, from startups to large enterprises, across various industries like finance and healthcare. What sets Kong apart from competitors is its combination of open-source technology and enterprise solutions, allowing businesses to access core features for free while offering premium services for those who need more support. The goal of Kong is to enhance developer productivity, improve security, and optimize performance for businesses using cloud-native architectures.

Company Stage

Series D

Total Funding

$170.7M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2017

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

8%

1 year growth

12%

2 year growth

12%
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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Kong's recent executive hires, including a Chief People Officer, Chief Revenue Officer, and Chief Customer Officer, indicate a strong focus on scaling and enhancing customer and employee experiences.
  • The launch of Kong Konnect Dedicated Cloud Gateways on AWS simplifies API management with zero downtime and one-click deployment, enhancing user experience and operational efficiency.
  • Kong's open-source initiatives, such as the Kong Gateway Operator for Kubernetes, continue to foster community engagement and innovation.

What critics are saying

  • The rapid growth and scaling efforts may lead to operational challenges and integration issues.
  • The competitive landscape in API management is intense, with major players like Google and Amazon posing significant threats.

What makes Kong unique

  • Kong's combination of open-source and enterprise-grade solutions offers flexibility and scalability that many competitors lack.
  • The Kong Gateway's ability to handle up to 50,000 transactions per second per node sets a high-performance benchmark in the API management industry.
  • Kong's focus on cloud-native environments and Kubernetes-native management positions it as a leader in modern API connectivity solutions.

Benefits

Weekly Donut Chats

Home Office Stipend

Flexible Time Off & Dedicated Unplug Days

Virtual Events