Senior Recruiter(Remote) - 6+ Month Contract

Posted 7 Hours Ago
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2 Locations
In-Office or Remote
Senior level
Cloud • Security • Software • Cybersecurity
Akamai powers and protects life online by solving the toughest challenges and turning the impossible into the possible.
The Role
The Senior Recruiter will develop and execute recruiting strategies, build diverse talent pipelines, advise hiring leaders, and improve candidate and stakeholder experiences. Responsibilities include workforce planning, full-cycle recruiting, process and best-practice development, recruiting metrics, reporting, and partnership with HR leadership. The role requires corporate recruiting experience, familiarity with ATS platforms and OFCCP guidelines, knowledge of labor markets and hiring trends, and strong stakeholder partnership skills.
Summary Generated by Built In

Would you like to engage and hire top talent for a premier technology company?

Do you enjoy building diverse and inclusive teams?

Join the Akamai Talent Acquisition team

Our team is passionate about building an inclusive and engaged workforce forming the foundation of Akamai's culture. We're a team of innovative thinkers who are committed to making Akamai a great place to work. Our goal is to bring the very best experience to all colleagues around the globe.

Partner with the best

As a Senior Recruiter you will partner with leaders to establish and execute on creative recruiting strategies. Collaborating with the hiring community you'll become a trusted talent advisor providing guidance throughout the recruiting process. People are our most valuable asset and you will ensure that we hire the best!

As a Senior Recruiter, you will be responsible for:

  • Creating processes and best practices to ensure delivery of diverse talent pools
  • Partnering proactively with the hiring community to understand and plan for hiring needs
  • Influencing and continuously improving on the experience of internal stakeholders, candidates, and new hires
  • Providing regular reporting and metrics updates to hiring community and HR leadership teams

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

  • Have 8 years of relevant experience including full life-cycle recruiting experience, ideally in a corporate environment
  • Demonstrate the ability to partner with business leaders to develop and execute on recruiting strategies
  • Possess knowledge of various recruiting tools such as search engines and social media
  • Have experience with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and knowledge of OFCCP guidelines
  • Be knowledgeable about the labor market and hiring trends, ideally in the technology sector
  • Be passionate about partnering and providing world class customer service to stakeholders across Akamai's business units

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.

Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like!

Skills Required

  • 8 years of relevant recruiting experience
  • Full life-cycle recruiting experience
  • Experience partnering with business leaders to develop and execute recruiting strategies
  • Knowledge of recruiting tools, including search engines and social media
  • Experience with Applicant Tracking Systems
  • Knowledge of OFCCP guidelines
  • Knowledge of labor market and hiring trends
  • Corporate recruiting experience
  • Technology-sector recruiting experience
  • Strong stakeholder partnership and customer service skills

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.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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The Company
HQ: Cambridge, MA
10,285 Employees
Year Founded: 1998

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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