Are you excited to work on innovative enterprise security products?
Are you passionate about securing user activity across browsers, desktop applications, and AI tools?
Who are we?
LayerX (now Akamai) transforms browsers and desktops into secure workspaces. It safeguards apps, data, and devices from web risks and AI leaks in real time, ensuring a seamless user experience.
About the Role
We are looking for an innovative cybersecurity product manager responsible for defining, planning, and executing new features for our platform.
As a Senior Product Manager, you will be responsible for:
- Defining and driving the product roadmap for AI Usage control
- Engaging with CISOs and security teams to understand their challenges and translate insights into actionable product requirements.
- Conducting market research and competitive analysis to identify trends, threats, and opportunities for product differentiation and innovation.
- Leveraging data-driven insights from product engagement, customer feedback, and key metrics to enhance usability, adoption, and retention.
- Leading the product development lifecycle, from conceptualization to launch, ensuring continuous alignment with company strategy and user needs.
- Collaborating cross-functionally with engineering, design, marketing, sales, and customer success to deliver impactful, high-quality products.
- Defining, prioritizing, and refining product features, maintain a well-structured backlog, and ensure efficient execution.
- Acting as a product evangelist, clearly communicating product value to internal teams, customers, and the market to drive adoption and growth.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- 6+ years of Product Management experience in cybersecurity products
- Demonstrate expertise experience in Network security or AI security
- Demonstrate exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down complex challenges
- Hands-on experience in Agile development methodologies and cross-functional collaboration.
- Work effectively in high-growth, fast-paced environments, with the ability to multitask and meet deadlines under pressure.
- Demonstrate excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, design, marketing, sales, and customer success teams.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).
Build your career at Akamai
Our ability to shape digital life today relies on developing exceptional people like you. The kind that can turn impossible into possible. We’re doing everything we can to make Akamai a great place to work. A place where you can learn, grow and have a meaningful impact.
With our company moving so fast, it’s important that you’re able to build new skills, explore new roles, and try out different opportunities. There are so many different ways to build your career at Akamai, and we want to support you as much as possible. We have all kinds of development opportunities available, from programs such as GROW and Mentoring, to internal events like the APEX Expo and tools such as Linkedin Learning, all to help you expand your knowledge and experience here.
Learn more
Not sure if this job is the right match for you or want to learn more about the job before you apply? Schedule a 15-minute exploratory call with the Recruiter and they would be happy to share more details.
Skills Required
- 6+ years of product management experience in cybersecurity products
- Expertise in network security or AI security
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills
- Hands-on experience with Agile development methodologies
- Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, design, marketing, sales, and customer success
- Ability to work effectively in high-growth, fast-paced environments and meet deadlines under pressure
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience
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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