Are you excited to work with innovative enterprise security products?
Do you want an opportunity to make a difference?
Join Guardicore (now Akamai Enterprise Security Group)
Guardicore (now Akamai!) is changing the way organizations protect their data centers and clouds from advanced threats. Our team boasts some of the most talented and experienced cyber-security and data center experts . We're always looking for new people to inspire us and make us better.
Partner with the best
We seek an experienced Product Manager to guide our cloud network security product. This role involves developing outstanding solutions, driving GTM strategies, and fostering customer relationships. Collaborate with enterprise security buyers, field teams, and engineering to address cloud cybersecurity challenges through innovative technical solutions centered on Zero Trust and cloud network security.
This role is a great fit for early-career product managers or engineers with leadership experience (e.g. team leads, group leads) in cybersecurity, cloud, or networking. Whether you've already transitioned into product or are looking to make that move, we're open to strong, technical candidates who bring curiosity, ownership, and a desire to build great products.
As a Product Manager, you will be responsible for:
- Owning the cloud product roadmap by defining strategy and priorities for cloud network security while balancing customer needs and engineering capacity.
- Driving product-market fit - engage customers directly to discover cloud security challenges, validate roadmap, and convert PoCs into customers.
- Leading customer and field engagement by representing the product strategically with enterprise buyers, SEs, and sales leadership to shape strategies effectively.
- Collaborating across functions with engineering, translating needs into requirements, defining criteria, and addressing trade-offs with engineering teams in India and Israel.
- Shaping the GTM strategy by collaborating with product marketing on positioning, messaging, and differentiation against competition
- Advocating for cloud investments within a broader segmentation portfolio encompassing data center, Kubernetes, and platform capabilities to influence outcomes.
What You Bring
To be successful in this role you will:
- 5+ years of product management experience in cloud infrastructure, cloud security, or network security
- Have an in-depth understanding of Cloud technologies and security solutions.
- Lead enterprise B2B product strategy through complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles, partnering with SEs to accelerate deal conversion.
- Have experience working with enterprise security buyers (CISOs, VP Network Security) through complex sales cycles
- Track record of working with field teams (SEs, sales) and translating field feedback into product direction
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.
Compensation
Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $139,300 - $250,700/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of product management experience in cloud infrastructure, cloud security, or network security
- In-depth understanding of cloud technologies and security solutions
- Experience leading enterprise B2B product strategy through complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles
- Experience partnering with sales engineers to accelerate deal conversion
- Experience working with enterprise security buyers, including CISOs and VP-level network security leaders
- Track record of working with field teams, including sales engineers and sales, and translating feedback into product direction
- Cybersecurity, cloud, or networking leadership experience for early-career product managers or engineers transitioning into product management
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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