About the Role:
Join our Global Strategy and Operations team! This newly created role sits at the intersection of three critical pillars: Global Business Operations, Global Site Governance, and COE Evolution. You will partner with Regional Managing Directors, Global Site Leaders, and functional heads to shape how our region operates, grows, and sustains a thriving culture. You won't just track progress—you will drive it, ensuring consistency, collaboration, and operational excellence across divisions, geographies, and functions.
What You Will Do:
Lead the planning of regional business reviews and coordinate the Regional Operating Committee (OC) by setting agendas, prioritizing strategic topics, and tailoring content for executive messaging.
Support the Regional Managing Director (MD) and cross-functional leaders, helping them stay aligned, focused, and organized around the region's top priorities.
Bringing strong initiative, learning from senior team members, and working as a supportive, reliable team player to refine team workflows.
Lead the evolution of existing Centers of Excellence (COEs), developing and operationalizing a program governance model that optimizes current structures and enables future growth.
Partner with Site Leaders and governance teams to capture and analyze data on site events globally.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Master’s degree in Development Studies, or a related field (advanced degree preferred).
- Minimum of 2-4 years of experience in program management, with a proven track record of driving strategic initiatives and delivering measurable social impact.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, written communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build and nurture relationships across diverse internal and external stakeholders.
- Strategic thinker with the ability to translate vision into action, manage multiple priorities, and drive cross-functional collaboration
Skills Required
- Master's degree in Development Studies or a related field
- Minimum of 2–4 years of program management experience
- Proven track record of driving strategic initiatives and delivering measurable social impact
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
- Stakeholder management skills and ability to build relationships across diverse internal and external stakeholders
- Strategic thinking and ability to translate vision into action
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and drive cross-functional collaboration
- Advanced degree
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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