Would you enjoy the opportunity to impact key business objectives?
Are you eager to work on fast paced projects that impact a global technology leader?
Join the Program Management team in the Technology Group
The Program Management Team is the architectural force behind the world's most performant, efficient, and reliable global platform. We are looking for a leader to drive complex technical programs that push the boundaries of Akamai's Cloud Computing Technology. In this role you'll orchestrate the evolution of the cloud at a global scale.
Shape the success of projects
Akamai drives the internet, with our Server Team as its core. We seek a skilled Lead, Senior Technical Program Manager. This role involves managing complexity, guiding expert multidisciplinary teams, and transforming strategic business objectives into technical outcomes.
As a Lead Senior Technical Program Manager, you will be responsible for:
- Serving as a lead for the Server Team, fostering a culture of excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement
- Driving multiple high-impact, complex projects from conception to deployment, ensuring alignment with Akamai's core business objectives
- Facilitating collaboration among multidisciplinary teams, connecting engineering, product, and operations while fostering relationships with internal teams on server hardware components.
- Acting as a critical contributor to Akamai's global success by optimizing server performance and reliability at scale
- Supporting cross-functional teams and providing subject matter expertise in planning and execution of multiple projects and programs
- Fostering effective communication while ensuring precise documentation and reporting on program status, risks, opportunities, dependencies, and success metrics to stakeholders.
- Engaging consistently with key collaborators, communicating progress effectively, evaluating risks, understanding priorities, and proposing solutions while implementing continuous process improvements
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have experience in team management and people leadership
- Have technical skills within server hardware and software scope including GPUs and smartNICs / DPUs
- Demonstrate proficient experience in program or project management in a cross functional and technical team
- Demonstrate proficient experience in managing agile work processes and experience/ skills in managing external vendors relationships
- Demonstrate interpersonal and organizational skills while communicating effectively and adapting swiftly to shifting priorities in dynamic environments
- Demonstrate initiative with analytical expertise, solve problems effectively, make decisions, collaborate well, and engage in creative, innovative projects.
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 in team management and people leadership
- Technical skills within server hardware and software scope
- Experience in program or project management in a cross-functional team
- Experience managing agile work processes
- Interpersonal and organizational skills
- Analytical expertise and problem-solving 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.
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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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