Are you interested in driving customer and developer experience for next generation cloud services?
Do you enjoy creating products that customers love?
Come join our Cloud Technology Group!
Akamai is transforming cloud computing with a distributed platform built for developers, startups, and enterprises needing scalable, secure, high-performance infrastructure. With our Cloud launch, we're redefining edge and cloud computing to power modern applications. Our mission, make cloud computing accessible, fast, and secure for every developer, everywhere.
Partner with the best
In this role, you'll help define and execute our cloud market strategy. Partnering across engineering, GTM, and executive teams to build competitive cloud products and leading cross-functional teams. You'll bring deep infrastructure and cloud platform expertise to help engage credibly in customer discussions and technical architecture reviews.
As a Vice President Product Management IaaS, you will be responsible for:
- Owning product vision and multi-year strategy for our infrastructure as a service (Iaas) portfolio, aligning to our broader cloud growth objectives.
- Building and leading a high-performing team of product leaders, driving accountability, execution discipline, and a culture of customer obsession.
- Leading cross-functional execution across product, engineering, and SRE, ensuring alignment and delivery against roadmap priorities.
- Partnering with engineering, design, sales, and marketing to bring products from concept to launch and scale adoption.
- Leveraging deep market, customer, and industry insights to identify differentiation opportunities and shape product positioning.
- Owning business outcomes across your portfolio, including revenue growth, adoption, and customer satisfaction.
- Collaborating with go-to-market leadership on pricing, packaging, and segment strategy, and representing Akamai externally with customers, partners, and analysts.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Possess 15 years of product management experience in cloud, compute, or infrastructure domains; bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
- Have a successful track record of building and scaling product management organizations, including hiring, mentoring, and establishing effective operating rhythms.
- Have experience defining and executing product strategy at a senior level, including vision setting, stakeholder alignment, and cross-functional execution.
- Possess deep fluency in cloud computing concepts, including compute, virtualization, containerization, storage, networking, and managed services.
- Have experience launching and scaling products successfully, with the ability to articulate outcomes, lessons learned, and areas for improvement.
- Align stakeholders through clear communication, collaboration, and influential leadership.
- Be able to lead through influence across engineering, SRE, and operations, aligning stakeholders around a shared product vision.
- Navigate across developer and enterprise audiences, understanding distinct needs and buying motions.
- Have executive presence and excellent communication skills, representing the company effectively with customers, partners, and analysts.
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.
Compensation
Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from $228,600 - $411,400/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.
Skills Required
- 15 years of product management experience in cloud, compute, or infrastructure domains
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Track record of building and scaling product management organizations
- Experience defining and executing product strategy at a senior level
- Deep fluency in cloud computing concepts
- Experience launching and scaling products successfully
- Ability to align stakeholders through clear communication
- Executive presence and excellent communication skills
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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