Would the chance to lead major technical programs, products, and solutions excite you?
Are you eager to work on fast-paced paced projects that impact a global technology leader?
Join the Program Management team in the Technology Group
The Program Management Team is on a mission to build and operate the world's most performant, efficient, and reliable planetary-scale platform. You will join a team of Technical program managers that lead complex technical programs that advance Akamai's Cloud Computing Technology.
Partner with the best
As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you'll work with our Technology Group by aligning goals with Engineering leadership and their teams. You will plan, communicate, execute, and deliver major programs, products, and solutions.
As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you will be responsible for:
- Leading end-to-end delivery of complex, high-visibility, multi-team technical programs
- Aligning efforts across engineering, product, and business leadership while balancing multiple priorities effectively.
- Developing successful partnerships with engineering, product and program stakeholders across the organization
- Identifying areas for process improvement, architecting and proposing solutions and implementing the change management
- Providing guidance and mentorship to technical program managers and engineers on effective execution practices.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 5+ years' experience with Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, another related field or its equivalent.
- Demonstrate business expertise with capability to align program efforts with organizational strategy.
- Anticipate needs, identify gaps promptly, initiate actions to address gaps, resolve issues, solve problems, and eliminate obstacles effectively.
- Be extremely well-organized, details-oriented, motivated, and technically-oriented
- Have excellent and storytelling communication skills for both technical and executive audiences
- Demonstrate expertise in risk management, resolving problems, and effectively navigating uncertain situations.
- Utilize tools like Smartsheets, JIRA, Confluence, Aha, understand networking and cloud technologies, and quickly adapt to new technologies.
- Have familiarity with JQL and data analytic tools such as eazyBI and Tableau
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
- 5+ years' experience and Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent
- Proven ability to align program efforts with organizational strategy and business objectives
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, motivation, and technical orientation
- Excellent storytelling and communication skills for technical and executive audiences
- Expertise in risk management, problem resolution, and navigating uncertainty
- Experience using Smartsheets, JIRA, Confluence, and Aha
- Understanding of networking and cloud technologies
- Familiarity with JQL and data analytic tools such as eazyBI and Tableau
- Experience mentoring or providing guidance to technical program managers and engineers
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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