Would making an impact on the digital experiences of millions of users excite you?
Would you like the opportunity to work in a high-impact role responsible for building customer loyalty?
Join our Cloud Technology Program Management team
Our Technical Program Managers lead programs and initiatives across the Cloud division from concept to market. We align product, engineering, and business teams to exceed the expectations of our customers.
Partner with the best
Technical Program Managers are key contributors to Akamai's success. In this role, you will lead strategic programs and drive process improvements that enhance organizational performance. Working closely with software engineering leaders and their teams, you will plan, coordinate, execute, and deliver complex programs, products, and solutions from inception through completion.
As a Technical Program Manager II , you will be responsible for:
- Leading cross-functional teams across Engineering, Product Management, and Network Operations to successfully deliver strategic initiatives across the product portfolio.
- Analyzing risks and developing contingency plans.
- Partnering with engineering and product teams to prioritize work, manage program backlogs, and align execution with business priorities.
- Communicating program status and expectation changes to senior leaders.
- Maintaining, prioritizing, and evolving the roadmap of committed work to ensure successful execution against annual objectives.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Possess extensive experience in project and technical program management
- Have experience partnering with software engineering teams
- Have experience using JIRA, Confluence, and Smartsheet to plan, track, and report on program execution.
- Have experience identifying and managing cross-team dependencies while maintaining accurate project plans, milestones, and delivery timelines.
- Be able to identify execution risks, analyze trade-offs, and communicate technical concepts effectively to stakeholders and leadership.
- Have strong interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across global teams.
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 in project and technical program management
- Experience partnering with software engineering teams
- Experience using JIRA, Confluence, and Smartsheet
- Experience identifying and managing cross-team dependencies and maintaining project plans, milestones, and delivery timelines
- Ability to identify execution risks, analyze trade-offs, and communicate technical concepts to stakeholders and leadership
- Strong interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills; ability to collaborate across global teams
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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