Kai is the AI company rebuilding cybersecurity for the machine-speed era. Founded by second-time founders and trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises, Kai is building a future where security has no categories, no silos, and no human speed bottlenecks. The Kai Autonomous Defense Platform replaces fragmented, human-limited workflows with agentic AI systems that continuously contextualize, assess, reason, and execute security work at machine speed, making human defenders superhuman.

Why Kai?

• Well-funded: $125M raised, with the capital, runway, and resolve to rebuild cybersecurity from first principles.
• Proven: We've earned the trust of Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies, and we're just getting started. Their confidence in Kai reflects what we've built: an AI-native cybersecurity platform that performs at machine speed with human-expert accuracy.
• Experienced founders: Our founding team are second-time entrepreneurs, each with 20+ years in cybersecurity. They've built and scaled before, and they're doing it again with a bigger vision.
• Competitive compensation: Highly competitive salary, meaningful equity, and a culture where your contributions are recognized and rewarded as we grow.

About the Role
We're looking for a founding Technical Product Marketing Manager to shape how the market understands what we're building and why it matters. This is not a messaging layer role. You'll go deep on the Kai platform, understand how it works under the hood, and translate that depth into content and narratives that hold up in front of security engineers, practitioners, and CISOs alike. You'll work directly with the leadership team, sit at the intersection of product, sales, and marketing, and write the playbook.

What You'll Do

• Partner closely with product and engineering to deeply understand the Kai platform: its architecture, how it works, and what makes the platform technically differentiated from anything else in the market.
• Develop and own the full suite of technical GTM content: solution briefs, technical white papers, platform deep-dives, demo narratives, competitive battlecards, objection handling guides, and sales playbooks.
• Translate complex platform capabilities into clear, compelling narratives for multiple audiences, from security engineers evaluating the platform to CISOs making buy decisions to analysts shaping category definitions.
• Partner with product management on launch strategy for new capabilities, ensuring every release lands with the right technical story, in the right channels, at the right time.
• Serve as a technical voice externally: customer conversations, analyst briefings, industry events, and partner engagements where credibility with practitioners matters.
• Collaborate with demand generation to create campaign content grounded in strong technical narratives and mapped to pipeline goals.
• Synthesize feedback from the field, including SE and sales conversations, into sharper positioning and continuously improve how Kai tells its story.

What You Bring

• 6-8 years of experience in technical product marketing, product marketing, sales engineering, or technical product management within cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, or enterprise SaaS.
• Hands-on technical depth in cybersecurity: you understand how enterprises manage exposure, how vulnerability and risk prioritization works in practice, and how agentic AI or automation is reshaping security.
• Strong track record creating technical marketing content from scratch: white papers, solution briefs, platform explainers, competitive battlecards, and sales enablement materials that hold up under technical scrutiny.
• Exceptional ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear narratives for both practitioner and executive audiences, without sacrificing accuracy or depth.
• Comfortable operating as a technical liaison between product, engineering, and go-to-market teams, and confident representing the platform externally in front of sophisticated security audiences.
• Comfortable operating across multiple priorities in a high-velocity environment, balancing long-term strategy with near-term execution demands.
• High ownership, low ego, and a strong bias toward action in ambiguous, early-stage environments.