Do you enjoy constantly learning and using new technologies?
Do you enjoy creating products that customers love?
Come join our Cloud Technology Group!
As a Senior Product Manager, responsibilities include enhancing network automation and software products portfolio. Akamai specializes in distributed computing solutions, helping organizations grow online efficiently. By leveraging advanced computational and network technologies, Akamai ensures the Internet remains scalable, secure, and reliable. Our customers trust us to deliver media, software, e-commerce, and cloud applications worldwide with outstanding performance and reliability.
Partner with the best
The Network Technology team develops interconnection standards, datacenter and network architecture, and network and hardware engineering solutions. This group implements innovative advancements to redefine the network platform, ensuring Akamai remains a key participant in shaping the future of global connectivity.
As a Senior Product Manager, you will be responsible for:
- Developing Network Technologies' long-term product strategy, life-cycles, and roadmaps while coordinating with business unit management and sales teams for alignment.
- Working directly with business units to evaluate and PoC new product innovations and execution for products.
- Developing comprehensive business analysis and financial models to support business cases and long-term product planning.
- Becoming the trusted expert in industry trends and market dynamics related to direct and adjacent areas for assigned product lines.
- Developing and analyzing Network Technologies product KPI's and operational product metrics to advise product teams, business units and other internal stakeholders.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Possess experience with product management, product development or equivalent experience.
- Have understanding of product management discipline – including product lifecycle management and some experience with product line strategic planning.
Have understanding of CDN, networking, interconnection and cloud technologies, as well as ability to learn new.
Demonstrate background in Product Management with Network and Software Engineering teams.
Have ability to assess new markets, analyze business opportunities and execute against them.
Be a great communicator, who has the ability to mitigate between marketing and engineering.
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
- Experience with product management, product development or equivalent experience.
- Understanding of product lifecycle management and experience with strategic planning.
- Understanding of CDN, networking, interconnection and cloud technologies.
- Background in Product Management with Network and Software Engineering teams.
- Ability to assess new markets and analyze business opportunities.
- Excellent communication skills to liaise between marketing and engineering.
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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