Vice President, Chief of Staff to the CEO

Are you passionate about driving strategic momentum for a global platform that powers and protects life online?

Do you excel at serving as a strategic force multiplier, bridging leadership vision with front-line operational excellence?

Join our Team!

Akamai powers and protects life online. Every day, the world's leading organizations rely on Akamai to build, run, deliver, and secure their applications, workloads, and digital experiences across our global cloud and edge platform.

Partner with the best

We are seeking a highly strategic and organized Chief of Staff to the CEO. In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for orchestrating the Office of the CEO and managing a dedicated team within the office. The Chief of Staff ensures executive productivity, strategic alignment, and the seamless execution of company priorities. This position is primarily remote, yet requires a small percentage of time to be spent at our company headquarters in Cambridge,

As the Vice President Chief of Staff, you will be responsible for:

• Team Management: Lead and mentor a high-performing Office of the CEO team, fostering proactive collaboration and operational excellence.
• Strategic Operations: Manage the CEO's dynamic operating calendar to ensure strategic alignment during mission-critical periods (Earnings, Board meetings, key external events). Oversee centralized scheduling for high-profile customer and partner briefings. Track annual Mission Critical Goal (MCG) attainment.
• Global Engagement & Executive Travel: Orchestrate the CEO's global engagement strategy, including all aspects of worldwide travel logistics, to ensure frictionless engagement in critical business activities. Optimize executive presence by curating high-impact agendas and pre-briefings for key customer, investor, and M&A opportunities. 
• Board Governance Support: Collaborate with Akamai's General Counsel to plan and Board of Director agendas, Director requests, and deliverable schedules. Plan and execute quarterly Board sessions (including a mix of on-site and virtual meetings). Deliver high-quality Board Memos, manage agendas for the Operating Committee (OC) and executive staff while driving synchronization on key cross-functional priorities like Cloud, Cyber Security, AI, and Go-to-Market strategies. 
• Corporate Development: Partner with Corporate Development and Investor Relations to prepare the CEO for critical interactions with bankers and investors. Streamline narratives to prepare quarterly earnings scripts.
• Strategic Communications: Align with Marketing and business leaders to deliver a clear Akamai vision. Develop high-impact scripts, presentations, and digital content for internal Town Halls, leadership calls and manage requests for keynote appearances. Orchestrate quarterly All Hands and Leadership calls, technical demos, financial communications, as well as maintain the CEO’s external voice on LinkedIn.
• AI Innovation & Transformation: Master AI tools to improve output. Identify and implement AI-driven solutions to automate
  routine tasks (written, graphic, or video content development) and ensure all AI usage aligns with Akamai’s brand, security, and ethics guidelines.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Bring 15+ years of experience managing strategic initiatives and operations with a Bachelor's degree in Business, Communications, or equivalent experience.
• Have proven managerial experience with a track record of successfully leading and managing a high-performing team.
• Be an exceptional communications (written and verbal) and organizational skills, with the ability to produce high-level talk tracks,
  scripts, and Board memos.
• Have extensive experience working in a fast-moving and change oriented high-tech corporation, understanding the key providers and
  competitors within Akamai's lines of business as well as having knowledge of foundational concepts related to: technical platforms, cloud computing, cybersecurity and AI infrastructure.
• Have demonstrated capability to orchestrate complex global travel, executive scheduling, and geopolitical navigation.

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply. 
Learn what makes Akamai a great place to work

We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.

At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

About us

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

Join us

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!

Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from $210,700 - $379,300/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.