Do you like to create innovative learning solutions?
Do you thrive on enabling others to learn and apply knowledge?
Join our Innovative Product & Technical Learning team
Our Product & Technical Learning team's goal is to provide best-in-class, Akamai product-focused learning solutions for employees, customers, and channel partners. We work cross-functionally to produce innovative materials using a variety of modalities and learning methods.
Develop cutting edge educational solutions
As a Technical Enablement Architect, you will analyze, design, develop, implement, and evaluate training content on Akamai products and solutions. Collaborating with internal subject matter expert teams, you will create engaging, high quality product knowledge(e-learning, labs, demos, instructor-led training, and more). By elevating our training offerings, we will enable our Employees, Customers, Channel Partners to sell, use, and service Akamai for their cloud strategies.
As a Technical Enablement Architect, you will be responsible for:
- Collaborating with members of the aligned Enablement team to determine training needs, and proposed solutions.
- Designing and developing learning content using instructional design strategies in a variety of modalities (including eLearning).
- Collaborating in our Product Communities and SME program
- Integrating learning activities and strategies that will engage and motivate the learner to further develop knowledge and skills.
- Developing course content from scratch as well as updating and improving current courseware, hands-on labs, and exams.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have hands-on experience in training content development and/or instructional design, applying adult learning principles.
- Have maturity applying learning methodologies and strategies, especially around storytelling, micro-learning, and simulations.
- Have working knowledge of e-learning authoring tools for different learning modalities.
- Display excellent communication skills and ability to articulate complex technical concepts to technical and business audiences.
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
- Hands-on experience in training content development and/or instructional design
- Maturity applying learning methodologies and strategies
- Working knowledge of e-learning authoring tools
- Excellent communication skills for articulating technical concepts
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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