AI Evangelist - EMEA

The role

You will lead AI acceleration across EMEA by moving customers from experimentation to production-grade AI and agents. You will act as a technical advisor to executives and support sales teams to drive AI revenue.

What you will do

• Act as a trusted technical advisor to CTOs, CIOs and AI leaders
• Sponsor strategic deals
• Lead the AI Connectivity Workshop
• Frame AI connectivity in terms of cost, risk and revenue
• Run executive briefings and join AI ecosystem conversations
• Support AEs and SEs in reaching the economic buyer and building multi-stakeholder buy-in
• Replicate wins between EMEA and set up use-case sharing
• Upskill AEs and SEs on AI and agentic positioning
• Route field use cases, blockers and competitive intel into Product
• Work within International GTM strategy

Required qualifications

• Deep technical credibility in AI, LLMs and agentic systems
• Solid grounding in APIs, networking and enterprise infrastructure
• Experience advising or selling to CTOs, CIOs and AI leaders at large enterprises in a pre-sales, solutions, field CTO, technical evangelist or similar role
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into a clear business case
• Strong facilitation skills
• Comfort working through others
• Collaborative, enabling style
• Experience working across regions and cultures, ideally in both EMEA
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English
• Willingness to travel across EMEA

Nice to have

• Additional EMEA languages
• Experience at an API management, cloud infrastructure, security or AI platform company
• A public profile in the AI or developer community, such as speaking, writing or open source
• Familiarity with AI ecosystem players and how enterprise AI budgets are owned and funded

About the company

Kong Inc. is the AI Connectivity Company building the connectivity layer of AI. Their unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence.