Are you eager to lead the global product strategy and roadmap for Akamai's billing and commercial platform?
Do you want to converge legacy enterprise billing with modern cloud compute platforms while driving product-led growth?
Join our team
Akamai Cloud Technology Group empowers customers to build, deploy, and scale distributed applications across a global cloud platform. Our Billing and Commercial platform team creates unified commercial capabilities, pricing enablement, usage visibility, and invoicing platforms. We power commercial interactions across Akamai's Compute, Delivery, and Security portfolios.
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You will lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Akamai's global billing ecosystem. In this role, you will drive the strategic direction of legacy enterprise billing stacks with cloud compute systems to eliminate customer friction.
As a Director Product Management, you will be responsible for:
- Driving the overarching product vision and multi-year roadmap for billing and commercial platform and experience across Compute, Delivery, and Security.
- Architect the convergence of legacy enterprise billing stacks with high-growth cloud compute billing systems to eliminate customer friction.
- Enabling product-led growth through frictionless customer journeys, promotional credits, real-time cost visibility, and self-service account management.
- Building enterprise commerce capabilities supporting negotiated pricing, complex commitments, custom discounts, credits, and consolidated billing requirements.
- Partnering with engineering delivery organizations to transition technical teams toward modern agile frameworks and maintain SOX compliance.
- Establishing reusable commercial capabilities for rating, metering, entitlements, and invoicing to accelerate new product launches and M&A integrations.
- Leading cross-functional alignment across Product, Sales, Finance, Engineering, and Legal to turn billing into a strategic growth enabler.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in product management, billing, fintech, or cloud revenue operations.
- Possess proven experience architecting complex billing system integrations, merging legacy enterprise platforms with modern consumption-based cloud systems.
- Demonstrate expertise in usage-based monetization models, pricing enablement, metering, rating, and enterprise contract constructs.
- Have a track record of driving organizational change and influencing technical delivery teams to adopt agile development methodologies.
- Maintain deep knowledge of financial compliance standards, including implementing strict SOX controls across high-growth platform environments.
- Exhibit exceptional cross-functional leadership skills to align executive stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Sales, Finance, and Legal.
- Show experience structuring billing and monetization platforms for emerging AI technology, agentic workflows, and acquired platforms.
About us
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.
Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.
FlexBase adapts to your job's needs
Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.
Compensation
Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $167,600 - $301,800/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.
Skills Required
- 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in product management, billing, fintech, or cloud revenue operations
- Experience architecting complex billing system integrations and merging legacy enterprise platforms with consumption-based cloud systems
- Expertise in usage-based monetization, pricing enablement, metering, rating, and enterprise contract constructs
- Track record of driving organizational change and influencing technical delivery teams to adopt Agile methodologies
- Deep knowledge of financial compliance standards, including implementing SOX controls
- Exceptional cross-functional leadership skills across Product, Engineering, Sales, Finance, and Legal
- Experience structuring billing and monetization platforms for AI technology, agentic workflows, and acquired platforms
Akamai Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Akamai Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Akamai Technologies.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO in the U.S., wellness days, paid volunteering time, and the FlexBase model contribute to broad time‑off flexibility. These practices are described as supporting strong work‑life balance.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leaves, paid family care leave, subsidized backup childcare, and inclusive family‑building benefits via Carrot form a comprehensive family support suite. Coverage spans fertility support through caregiving resources.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a substantial company match and immediate vesting, plus Roth and Mega Backdoor Roth options, underpin long‑term savings. These features provide reliable long‑term savings opportunities.
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What We Do
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every moment, billions of people, all over the world, are using the internet to shop, play games, look after finances, learn remotely, share videos, connect across the world, and so much more. These life-shaping digital experiences wouldn’t be possible without Akamai. We power and protect life online. It’s an extraordinary mission, and our global teams achieve it by solving the toughest challenges, and turning the impossible into the possible. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences. Thanks to our world’s most distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery. Akamai keeps applications and experiences closer and threats farther away. Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation. Do you want to power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges with us? Be part of an amazing team!
Why Work With Us
Our people are devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology. We find solutions through persistence, and push ground-breaking ideas forward with urgency and courage. This creates an environment where we harness creative energy and drive innovation. We are inclusive and diverse, and we love to collaborate across the world.
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