Would you like the opportunity to work in a high-impact role responsible for sales growth?
Do you love leading and motivating successful teams?
Join our Sales leadership team
Our team works with world leading companies in every major industry to make the internet fast and secure. As a partner to the Global 500, we collaborate with customers and prospects to align Akamai solutions to business needs. We build relationships and insights to maximize product value through the full scope of our global platform.
Partner with the best
In this role you will demonstrate sales strategy and leadership to assist in identifying and closing business. You will focus on high growth areas of opportunities, requiring an innovative and entrepreneurial leader.
As a Sales Manager, you will be responsible for:
- Providing direction and guidance to Account Executives, strategically planning to enable quota attainment across the regions
- Contributing to overall business strategy and planning while engaging with leaders across the company
- Supporting the regions in achieving monthly, quarterly, and annual revenue and bookings goals.
- Working with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and resources.
- Leading the team by recruiting, retaining, and developing a deep bench ensuring the continuity of the business
- Collaborating with partners and marketing function to form and execute local strategy
- Identifying business white space and drive inorganic growth
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in system/solution sales or its equivalent
- Demonstrate experience managing multiple Sales teams with proven success leading teams to over-achieve quarterly and annual quotas
- Have demonstrated success in developing and implementing successful sales processes and building and leading best-in-class sales teams
- Possess excellent listening, negotiation, and presentation skills
- Have experience in leading and developing managers to help build out the team and future leaders
- Have demonstrated ability to show effective and impactful experience with existing customers
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
- Eight years of relevant experience
- Bachelor's degree in system or solution sales, or equivalent
- Experience managing multiple sales teams
- Proven success leading teams to exceed quarterly and annual quotas
- Experience developing and implementing successful sales processes
- Experience building and leading high-performing sales teams
- Excellent listening, negotiation, and presentation skills
- Experience leading and developing managers
- Demonstrated success with existing customers
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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