Are you excited by the prospect of creatively solving problems?
Do you enjoy solving complex challenges and creating solutions?
Join our InfoSec PMO team!
The InfoSec PMO helps guide Akamai and the Internet to a safer future. We plan and deliver programs that enable organizational growth and achieve the Information Security team's strategic objectives in support of powering and protecting life online. We value continual learning, transparent communication, collaboration, and integrity. And we are invested in the success of both our team and our internal customers.
Work with Teams Across Akamai
As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you will contribute to strategic programs that will directly support Akamai and its customers. This role will be focused on projects in such areas as compliance, security engineering, threat & vulnerability management, and product security. You will need to interact with, and support, the business and technical stakeholders with compassion, empathy and candor.
As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you will be responsible for:
- Planning, coordinating, communicating, and delivering critical projects accurately and on time
- Driving definition of project scope, requirements, objectives, and milestones, involving all relevant stakeholders
- Partnering with stakeholders and project teams to plan projects and ensure they stay on track
- Working with project teams to identify and evaluate project risks and issues
- Demonstrating exceptional written and verbal communication alongside with listening skills to ensure clarity, trust, and well-coordinated project execution.
- Learning and operating within InfoSec PMO frameworks and processes
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have extensive experience leading complex technical projects/programs
- Possess hands-on knowledge of Project Management methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, SAFe, Scrum, Traditional PMI methods, etc.)
- Demonstrate ability to engage with business and technical stakeholders with compassion and empathy
- Have a successful track record of stakeholder management, including executive level stakeholders
- Have exceptional organizational and communication skills
- Have good interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills and inspire people at all levels of the organization without authority
- Be fluent in English
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
- Extensive experience leading complex technical projects and programs
- Hands-on knowledge of project management methodologies, including Waterfall, Agile, SAFe, Scrum, and traditional PMI methods
- Experience engaging business and technical stakeholders with compassion and empathy
- Successful track record of stakeholder management, including executive-level stakeholders
- Exceptional organizational and communication skills
- Ability to inspire people at all levels without authority
- Fluency in English
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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