Are you passionate about shaping market-leading cloud services?
Do you thrive on creating products that resonate with customers?
Join the Cloud Technology Group
Akamai's Cloud Compute Product Management organization oversees the compute instances, hypervisors, and server profiles that power our global distributed cloud. By optimizing our core capabilities, the team enables secure, highly performant, and cost-effective infrastructure that drives trust and supports future cloud growth.
Partner with the best
As a Product Manager for our Cloud Storage services, you will play a pivotal role in achieving our mission of making digital experiences fast, intelligent and secure.
As a Product Manager, you will be responsible for:
- Gathering, documenting, and communicating business and technical requirements for Akamai NetStorage and Akamai Object Storage products.
- Defining and executing the product strategy, roadmap and delivering against the product plan.
- Fostering connections with cross-functional teams, such as sales and marketing, to promote products and gather feedback for ongoing success.
- Analyzing operational metrics and trends to manage and maximize product KPIs, revenue and profitability, building business cases and margin analysis.
- Working with Marketing, Sales, Support, and other teams to develop and execute on Go to Market strategies.
- Synthesizing feedback and prioritizing development.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 8 years of related experience and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field.
- Have experience in cloud technologies in a product management setting.
- Possess expertise in leading teams within a complex, cross-functional environment; be self-motivated and possess outstanding communication skills.
- Have experience scaling products from launch to widespread adoption; demonstrate analytical skills and data-driven decision making.
- Demonstrate passion for customer-centric and collaborative problem-solving; understand markets and global customer bases.
- Possess a commitment to prioritizing the collective success of the team over individual achievements.
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 $119,600 - $215,400/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
- 8 years of related experience
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
- Experience in cloud technologies in a product management setting
- Experience scaling products from launch to widespread adoption; analytical and data-driven decision making
- Expertise leading teams in complex, cross-functional environments and outstanding communication skills
- Experience gathering, documenting, and communicating business and technical requirements for storage products (Akamai NetStorage/Akamai Object Storage)
- Experience developing and executing go-to-market strategies with Sales, Marketing, and Support
- Customer-centric, collaborative problem-solving and understanding of global markets
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.
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.
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