Would you like to make a difference in how Akamai enables customers and partners?
Are you excited about shaping strategic partner enablement at scale?
Be Part of Our Growing Global Partner Team
The partner ecosystem is vital for global customer success. This position shapes strategies and models to enhance partner onboarding, certification, and productivity. Responsibilities include leading enablement programs across Security, Cloud Computing, and core platforms to simplify processes and foster collaboration. Supporting VARs, Distributors, integrators, services, and cloud-focused partners ensures streamlined experiences and strengthens partnerships worldwide.
Partner with the best
This role focuses on shaping and evolving Akamai's global partner enablement strategy, with an emphasis on Cloud Computing and related efforts. Collaboration across teams ensures priorities align, execution is effective, and programs scale efficiently. Key responsibilities include improving partner readiness, optimizing platform use, enhancing operations, and driving successful business outcomes.
As a Senior Technical Enablement Architect, you will be:
- Designing role-based onboarding and certification paths tailored to partner types, functions and Cloud and Security priorities
- Managing key enablement platforms including PRM, Partner Portal, Demo Center, LMS, and Test Accounts
- Building scalable partner journeys that reduce ramp time, increase independence, and support cloud growth
- Collaborating with marketing, sales, product, services, and technical teams to align priorities and delivery
- Measuring enablement effectiveness and using insights to improve partner adoption, readiness, and business outcomes
- Championing a partner-first mindset across all enablement touch points, platforms, and programs
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 7+ years in partner enablement, channel programs, or technical marketing and a high school diploma or equivalent.
- Understand partner business models such as VARs, Distributors, SIs, Services Partners, Cloud Compute partners, Security partners, and MSSPs
- Demonstrate practical expertise with PRM, LMS, Partner Portal, demo, or credentialing and skill validation platforms
- Demonstrate business expertise, strategic insight, and effective decision-making in dynamic, collaborative environments.
- Leverage data effectively to inform enablement decisions and demonstrate measurable business outcomes.
- Communicate effectively across global teams, building influence, alignment, and operational focus
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
- 7+ years in partner enablement, channel programs, or technical marketing
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Understanding of partner business models such as VARs, Distributors, and Services Partners
- Practical expertise with PRM, LMS, Partner Portal, demo, or credentialing platforms
- Effective communication across global teams
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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