Are you eager to apply your business and analytical skills to real-world corporate sustainability challenges?
Do you thrive on stepping into new topics quickly, applying systems thinking, and ensuring accuracy in the details?
Join our Corporate Sustainability Team!
Akamai’s Corporate Sustainability team works across the company to support our environmental and energy management systems and key sustainability programs. We are looking for a business-minded, adaptable intern to support our team with data analysis, process tracking, and cross-functional initiatives. In this role, you will work closely with stakeholders across the business to help drive efficiency, support emissions accounting, and advance strategic sustainability projects.
As a participant in our program, you will gain valuable experience and make contributions through meaningful project work. You will have the opportunity to join us for trainings, networking events, and engagements with company leadership. Our 2027 12-week intern program starts on May 24th and goes through August 13th.
Partner with the best
In this role, you will help connect business operations with corporate sustainability. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and external partners, building foundational experience in data analysis, operational workflows, and stakeholder communication in a global enterprise setting.
As a Corporate Sustainability Intern, you will be responsible for:
- Collaborating Across Teams: Partner closely with the Corporate Sustainability team and operational teams across Akamai to support company-wide sustainability-focused programs and projects.
- Supporting Carbon Accounting: Assist with Greenhouse Gas (GHG) accounting, data collection, and process tracking across categories such as travel, shipping, and energy management.
- Driving Process & System Improvements: Help evaluate, document, and refine internal processes related to Akamai’s environmental and energy management system and operational workflows.
- Analyzing & Communicating Trends: Evaluate activity, energy and emissions data to track performance, identify trends and efficiency opportunities, and share actionable insights across internal groups.
- Engaging Internal & External Stakeholders: Participate in cross-functional project meetings, sit in on external auditor calls, and assist with direct vendor or partner communications as needed.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Possess Business and Sustainability Aptitude: Be pursuing a Bachelors in business, business analytics, or a related field paired with a foundational understanding of corporate sustainability concepts and frameworks.
- Be Proficient with Data & Process Analysis: Ability to review quantitative data, organize information efficiently, and map out operational processes to identify improvement areas.
- Have Strong Professional Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, comfortable interacting professionally across internal teams and with external partners or auditors.
- Be a Quick Learner & a Systems Thinker: High capacity for understanding complex, interconnected processes, applying change management principles, and adapting quickly to new tools, frameworks, and concepts.
- Have Initiative & Attention to Detail: Self-motivated team player with strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and a proactive approach to project work.
Work in a way that works for you
Our 12-week summer intern program starts in May and requires you to be available 40 hours per week through mid August.
We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.
At Akamai, we’re curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you’ll thrive here.
Working for you
Through our intern and co-op programs we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Benefits offered to interns and co-ops are offered through our managed service provider (MSP). Students also gain the following benefits directly from our programs:
- Mentorship
- Career development trainings
- Visibility into senior leadership through Fireside Chats
- Networking and social events with an international intern cohort
- Final project showcase presented to the company
- Fun perks including Akamai branded merchandise
About us
Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences — helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.
Join us
Are you seeking an opportunity to learn and make a real impact in a global technology company? Come join us and learn with a team of people who will energize and inspire you! By the end of your assignment, you will gain a network of encouraging colleagues ready to support you in your studies and beyond.
Skills Required
- Currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in business, business analytics, or a related field.
- Foundational understanding of corporate sustainability concepts and frameworks.
- Ability to review quantitative data and organize information efficiently.
- Ability to map operational processes and identify improvement opportunities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Comfort interacting professionally with internal teams, external partners, and auditors.
- Ability to understand complex, interconnected processes and apply systems thinking.
- Ability to adapt quickly to new tools, frameworks, and concepts.
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, initiative, and a proactive team-oriented approach.
- Availability to work 40 hours per week through mid-August during the 12-week summer internship.
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
Akamai Technologies Insights
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.
Gallery
