Do you relish the prospect of leading strategic cross-organization programs?
Do you thrive on managing complexity and uncertainty?
Join our Cloud Technology Program Management team
Our Senior Technical Program Managers lead initiatives across the enterprise from concept to market. We align product, software engineering, site reliability and architecture teams to exceed the expectations of our customers. Leaders across the organization rely on us to execute on critical programs with high business impact.
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Akamai's Cloud Technology Group seeks a Senior Technical Program Manager to advance Software Infrastructure Services. This role involves leading programs to enhance reliability and scalability of Akamai's Cloud platform. Responsibilities include coordinating with technical and business stakeholders to enable enterprise-level data center software infrastructure deployments. Join the team driving foundational systems for Akamai's next-generation cloud platform.
As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you will be responsible for:
- Leveraging technical expertise to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects
- Leading cross-functional teams to support the product/technology roadmap
- Managing programs from concept to market including planning, schedule management, and monitoring of investment levels
- Participating in and enhancing product development, overseeing software lifecycles, and coordinating cross-functional efforts to meet timelines and budgets effectively.
- Demonstrating technical expertise, taking initiative, asking questions, engaging collaboratively, contributing actively, and utilizing communication skills to ensure clarity and effective teamwork.
- Communicating program status and updates clearly to senior leadership and providing guidance and informal mentoring for team members
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Possess relevant experience in program/project management
- Have significant experience in Agile processes and methodologies
- Be able to inspire people at all levels of the organization without authority
- Demonstrate ability in change management and transformation processes
- Possess deep domain expertise in core cloud computing concepts, distributed systems, and scalable cloud infrastructure architecture
- Have good interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills and inspire people at all levels of the organization without authority
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
- Relevant experience in program or project management
- Significant experience with Agile processes and methodologies
- Ability to influence and inspire people at all organizational levels without direct authority
- Experience with change management and transformation processes
- Deep expertise in cloud computing concepts, distributed systems, and scalable cloud infrastructure architecture
- Strong interpersonal, organizational, and communication 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.
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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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