Do you enjoy making a real business impact through transformational programs?
Do you like guiding complex projects that require analytical thinking, agility and team collaboration?
Join Our Presales Team!
We work with world-leading companies in every major industry to make the Internet fast and secure. Partnering with the Global 500, we collaborate with customers and prospects, aligning Akamai solutions to business needs. We build relationships and insights to maximise product value through the full scope of our global platform.
Partner with the best
As a Program Manager, you will manage complex initiatives that support mission-critical goals. You will work with executive and management stakeholders across the Presales organization and the wider enterprise to help turn strategic priorities into coordinated action.
As a Program Manager II Strategy & Operations, you will be responsible for:
- Managing and executing multiple cross-functional initiatives from inception to launch and beyond
- Developing collaborative program plans, coordinating activities and driving timely execution against agreed outcomes
- Identifying, communicating, and tracking risks, dependencies, and strategic opportunities in a timely, clear manner
- Creating and distributing clear program documentation, including status updates, milestones, presentations and executive summaries
- Leading program communications and maintaining alignment among stakeholders
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Demonstrate analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to recognize patterns, connect related work and translate ambiguity into action
- Have excellent interpersonal and organizational skills with an ability to communicate often, clearly and honestly to a range of stakeholders
- Have a proven ability to build relationships, fostering trust and credibility
- Have working knowledge of a range of program management tools and be comfortable learning new ones as required
- Be proactive in your approach, looking beyond the immediate assignment to identify connections, anticipate needs and suggest more effective ways forward
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.
Skills Required
- Analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to recognize patterns, connect related work, and translate ambiguity into action
- Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills with clear communication across stakeholder groups
- Ability to build relationships and foster trust and credibility
- Working knowledge of program management tools and ability to learn new tools
- Proactive approach to identifying connections, anticipating needs, and suggesting improvements
- Experience managing and executing multiple cross-functional initiatives from inception to launch
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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