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title: 'Sr Product Marketing Manager at Kentik'
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# Sr Product Marketing Manager at Kentik

- **Company:** Kentik
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-04-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://www.kentik.com/careers/jobs/4684615005/?gh_jid=4684615005

## Job description

## Who we are

Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams. Unlike traditional monitoring and observability tools, we demystify complex network operations, enabling organizations to deliver applications and innovation at scale. Built by network experts to make critical insight accessible to every engineer, Kentik is the real-time source of truth that understands every network in context — from data center to cloud to the internet. This single platform unifies and correlates cloud, device, flow, and synthetic data to turn telemetry into action. Market leaders like Akamai, Booking.com, Dropbox, and Zoom rely on Kentik to run, manage, and optimize their networks.

## What you'll do

We are looking for a product marketer who is passionate about leading go to market success by delivering products that resonate with buyers and users in multiple markets. You zero in on exactly what drives people and how technology can solve their problems. You enjoy speaking with customers, partners, analysts, and product managers. You have a bias for action, high empathy, are a leader, and enjoy being a part of a team.

- Lead product marketing activities for the Kentik Cloud, Synthetics, and Security products and solutions
- Develop and own the go-to-market plan, segment and persona strategy, messaging, positioning, and storytelling for Kentik solutions for the Enterprise market.
- Develop product level messaging and content reflecting end-to-end workflows and use cases which align to business outcomes
- Enhance and own the integrated product launch program, partnering with product management, marketing, sales, customer success, partner teams, and enablement to drive business impact
- Identify target personas, understand their key business problems, and pain points, and articulate Kentik’s value proposition to drive desired outcomes
- Oversee creation of, audit, and maintain core assets: messaging frameworks, value propositions, customer presentations, web content, solution briefs, other marketing collateral, and executive buyer narratives
- Partner with revenue marketing, sales, and channel teams to facilitate message pull-through in campaigns and sales and customer success conversations
- Create effective plays and enablement for sales and CS teams
- Work closely with product management to align marketing with product features and roadmap

## What you'll bring

Studies have shown that some candidates tend to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to apply if you meet most of the criteria - even if you don’t match all of the qualifications, your skills and experience could be valuable in this role!

- 4+ years experience in product or solutions marketing in a high growth software organization
- Experience marketing IT, networking, management, and/or security solutions to practitioners and decision makers
- Experience defining and leading product launches in matrixed environments
- Experience understanding technology at a deep level and ability to translate into business needs and outcomes concisely
- You must be comfortable communicating at all levels within Kentik, customers, and partners, including executive and C-level leaders
- You are a team player, knowing how to work well cross-functionally to rally teams around your strategy and plans
- A deep sense of ownership and accountability is required along with the ability to influence and inspire
- Strive for excellence with a sharp eye for messaging accuracy and alignment

## What we offer

Kentik is a fully remote company that operates globally. We seek professionals that will help us thrive as an organization, and in turn, to broaden and enhance your career. We’re very thorough in the interview process to understand your skills and how they will relate to your successful growth here at Kentik. Our compensation philosophy encompasses a fair program for all in order to attract, engage and retain talented individuals who will drive our business and wow our customers.

The compensation range for this position is: $145,000 - $190,000. This range reflects the low and high end of the U.S. compensation range Kentik reasonably and generally expects to pay the hired candidate in this role. The actual compensation offered may be lower or higher than the stated range depending on various factors, including but not limited to:

- Experience with the skill sets required for success
- Demonstrated competencies and potential
- A geographic market-based approach

Come work with us

The true meaning of Kentik is visibility. We’re committed to making sure everyone feels empowered to use their voice, has a sense of belonging, and is represented at Kentik.

We don’t look for individuals who fit the culture, but those who will continue to add to the culture. We encourage everyone to apply, especially those individuals who are underrepresented in the industry: people of color, LGBTQI+ community, women, individuals with disabilities (both seen and unseen), veterans, and people of any age or family status.

Kentik is committed to creating an inclusive interview process. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please reach out to recruiting@kentik.com.

Come as you are! You will be working at a fast-growing, well-funded startup alongside industry thought leaders and network aficionados as we build the future of observability and set the high bar for how network operations and digital businesses should run. With a competitive salary and amazing benefits on top of the meaningful and challenging projects you’ll take on, we’re sure you’ll enjoy joining the Kentik team.

#li-remote

## About Kentik

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Kentik is a network intelligence platform that provides observability, monitoring, and anomaly detection for modern infrastructure teams.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2014 (originally as CloudHelix, renamed to Kentik in 2015)
- **Founders**: Avi Freedman, Ian Applegate, Ian Pye, Justin Biegel

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Network observability, network monitoring, and cybersecurity (anomaly detection)
- **Target customers**: Enterprise and SMB infrastructure teams, including NOC, DevOps, and security teams; heavily used by AI companies and large-scale network operators
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Make life awesome for people building and running the connected world.”

## Products & Services
- **Kentik Network Intelligence Platform (SaaS)**: A cloud-based platform that ingests NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, and other network telemetry data to provide real-time visibility, performance monitoring, cost optimization, and security analytics across data center, cloud, and internet environments.
- **Kentik AI**: An AI-powered assistant that helps quickly troubleshoot network issues, reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR), and automate root cause analysis.
- **DDoS Detection & Mitigation**: Built-in anomaly detection for identifying and responding to distributed denial-of-service attacks.
- **Peering & Traffic Cost Analysis**: Tools to optimize internet transit costs and peering arrangements.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding amount not disclosed in the search results; however, the company is backed by notable venture firms (see below).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Third Point Ventures, as well as individual investors such as Jamie Barnett (Managing Partner, Third Point Ventures) and Robert Schwartz. Partners include major cloud providers and enterprise tools (Slack integration, etc.).
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - “8 out of 10 of the world’s largest enterprise AI companies use Kentik.”
  - Claims 400% faster troubleshooting and $4M saved annually per case study.
  - Home to Doug Madory’s internet routing analysis practice (previously at Renesys/Dyn/Oracle) – a key talent acquisition.
  - Active hiring: 9 open positions on LinkedIn as of the search date.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Purpose-built data engine**: Based on a clustered datastore modeled on Google’s Dremel, enabling high-scale, low-latency analysis of network telemetry.
- **Deep expertise**: Founded by network operators who built parts of the global internet; employs leading internet routing analysts.
- **Unified observability**: Covers data center, cloud, and internet-edge visibility in a single platform, reducing tool sprawl.
- **AI-native**: Kentik AI integrated directly into the platform to accelerate troubleshooting.

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding AI-powered automation and self-service troubleshooting for non-specialist teams (support, NOC, app teams).
- Deepening integrations with cloud providers and IT service management tools.
- Growing enterprise and AI infrastructure customer base.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Remote-first (work from where you are) with a strong emphasis on autonomy and making an impact. The company describes itself as “built by nerds/experts” and values bringing your “full self, quirks and all.”
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Fully remote environment; office in San Francisco but distributed team.
- **Benefits** (from careers page):
  - 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision for U.S. employees and dependents.
  - Employer-funded health reimbursement account and monthly wellness stipend.
  - Employer-paid short- and long-term disability, paid parental/family/medical leave.
  - Open PTO, quarterly wellness day, and all public holidays.
  - Home office reimbursement plus monthly phone/internet stipend.
  - 401(k) with charitable donation matching.
- **Engineering Culture**: Focus on solving complex network problems at scale; use of modern tech stack (KDE storage, platform engineering). Recent job postings include Sr Staff Backend Engineer, Staff SRE, and Sr Product Manager.

## Sources
1. [kentik.com](https://www.kentik.com/)
2. [kentik.com/careers](https://www.kentik.com/careers/)
3. [kentik.com/company](https://www.kentik.com/company/)
4. [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentik)
5. [linkedin.com/company/kentik](https://www.linkedin.com/company/kentik)

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