Would you enjoy providing support across multiple programs?
Do you thrive on managing complexity and uncertainty?
Join our Cloud Technology PMO team
Program Managers are key contributors to Akamai's success. You will be responsible to lead programs, enhance performance, and increase customer satisfaction.
Partner with the best
Our Program Managers lead product programs and initiatives across the division from concept to market. We align product, engineering, and business teams to exceed the expectations of our customers. We are relied on by leaders across the organization to execute critical programs with high business impact.
As a Technical Program Manager II, you will be responsible for:
- Leading cross-functional teams including Engineering, Product Management, Network Operations, Sales, Services, and Support to support the product roadmap.
- Proactively minimizing risks while developing alternative approaches for various scenarios.
- Maintaining and communicating backlog of work with key stakeholders, guiding them on priorities based on business needs
- Communicating program status and expectation changes to senior leaders with appropriate frequency, using standardized methods
- Maintaining and iterating on a roadmap of committed work through the current calendar
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Possess 5+ experience in managing projects and programs effectively.
- Demonstrate experience working within a technical team and a good understanding of the software development life cycle
- Have experience working with JIRA and Confluence
- Have experience working with Internet technologies or protocols such as DNS, HTTP, TCP/IP
- Be able to analyze workload and communicate technical issues to senior stakeholders of varying technical ability
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 managing projects and programs
- Experience working within a technical team and understanding of the software development life cycle
- Experience with JIRA and Confluence
- Experience with Internet technologies or protocols such as DNS, HTTP, TCP/IP
- Ability to analyze workload and communicate technical issues to senior stakeholders
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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