Do you love leading and motivating successful teams?
Would you like to build customer loyalty?
Join our South East Asia Sales Team(Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia)
Our team works with world-leading companies in every major industry to make internet fast, reliable and secure. As a partner to the Global 500s, we collaborate with customers and prospects to align Akamai solutions to their business needs and enable break-out growth.
Develop the Sales Strategy
This exciting opportunity will see you drive sustainable revenue growth across Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia. You will acquire new customers, expand existing accounts and strengthen Akamai's market position across Security, Compute and Delivery. You will lead the sales organization to achieve revenue targets, build a reliable pipeline and drive consistent regional execution.
As a Regional Sales Manager, you are part of SEA GTM Leadership team and will be responsible for
- Developing the annual go-to-market plan to attain desired business results and maintain a market-leader position
- Leading a team of Major Account Executives who are responsible for growth in their respective territories
- Developing repeatable sales plays/productivity programs to accelerate sales velocity and win rates
- Working with Service Line management to develop pre-sales technical consulting strategies to enhance sales velocity
- Developing executive level relationships with new and existing customers to quickly build rapport and overall customer satisfaction
- Executing a successful partner and alliance strategy and ensuring it is effectively administered
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have proven experience building, developing and motivating high-performing sales teams, with a track record of achieving and exceeding revenue targets.
- Demonstrate the ability to lead and manage a geographically distributed sales workforce across multiple countries and cultures.
- Demonstrate excellent track record in enterprise technology sales, including complex sales cycles, strategic account management and engagement with senior customer executives.
- Possess exceptional commercial acumen and experience in territory planning, pipeline management, forecasting, deal strategy and sales performance management.
- Have relevant experience working with leading Cloud/Cloud Security companies and the associated Partner ecosystem.
- Lead Akamai's sales business across Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia, aligning regional strategy and execution with South East Asia and APJ leadership.
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
- Proven experience building, developing, and motivating high-performing sales teams
- Track record of achieving and exceeding revenue targets
- Experience leading geographically distributed sales teams across multiple countries and cultures
- Strong enterprise technology sales experience, including complex sales cycles and strategic account management
- Experience engaging senior customer executives
- Commercial expertise in territory planning, pipeline management, forecasting, deal strategy, and sales performance management
- Experience with leading cloud or cloud security companies and partner ecosystems
- Ability to align regional sales strategy with Southeast Asia and APJ leadership
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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