Does the product development lifecycle excite you?
Do you like collaborating across teams to deliver operational excellence?
Join our Strategy and Operations Team!
The Product Operations team collaborates with the Cloud Technology Group to support product development and deliver solutions aligned with customer needs. Data-driven insights guide decisions, while cross-functional processes ensure alignment across teams. Customer perspectives are integrated into every aspect of work to enhance outcomes and maintain focus on delivering value.
Partner with the best
This role partners with Product and Program Management to establish and sustain processes ensuring consistent execution of product strategy. Responsibilities include advancing operational excellence through reporting, strategy reviews, roadmaps, and key internal processes. Collaboration with diverse stakeholders is essential for streamlined information sharing and timely delivery of outcomes across the organization.
As a Senior Strategy & Operations Analyst, you will be responsible for:
- Serving as a trusted advisor and business partner to cross-functional CTG leadership including Product, Operations, Marketing, Finance, etc.
- Maintaining the rhythm of the business through the development and execution of integrated processes
- Leading expectations for quality of internal and external outputs across CTG through development and documentation of Standard & Practices.
- Driving consistency in business reviews by establishing best practices for managing, maintaining, and reviewing key performance indicators with business leaders.
- Communicating changes and driving adoption to need standards of working to drive the business forward.
- Optimizing processes continuously to effectively support decision-making on a large scale.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have relevant experience in Strategy or Product related role and a Bachelor's degree
- Have experience successfully building processes and driving operational standards for a cross-functional organization
- Have understanding of cloud, data center concepts, content distribution (CDN) and related technology to help translate technical requirements into business outcomes.
- Have experience presenting to and working with teams and leadership at all levels of an organization
- Have experience with data visualization and analysis tools, operating systems with limited supervision, building rudimentary dashboards, and developing KPIs
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
- Bachelor's degree
- Relevant experience in strategy or product-related roles
- Experience building processes and driving operational standards across cross-functional organizations
- Understanding of cloud, data center concepts, and content distribution (CDN)
- Experience presenting to and collaborating with leadership at all levels
- Experience with data visualization and analysis tools and building rudimentary dashboards
- Experience developing and maintaining KPIs
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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