Senior Technical Program Manager

Do you thrive on driving complex technical programs from vision to reality?

Are you ready to orchestrate the delivery of cutting-edge AI infrastructure?

Join the Akamai Inference Cloud Team!

The Akamai Inference Cloud team is part of Akamai's Cloud Technology Group. We design, implement, deploy and operate AI platforms that enable customers to run inference models and developers to create AI applications with unmatched performance, compliance, and economics.

Partner with the best

As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you will require technical understanding of AI/ML systems, exceptional organizational and program management skills, and proven experience leading large-scale technical programs at the speed of the AI market.

As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Leading end-to-end program planning and execution for major AI platform initiatives, which includes defining technical roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, and risks

• Materially leading the Product Development Process and the full software development lifecycle and release process for AI products and solutions

• Leveraging technical expertise to lead complex projects, and managing programs from concept to market, including planning, risk, and schedule management.

• Establishing program metrics, tracking progress, monitoring updates, communicating changes to leaders, and offering guidance while mentoring team members

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 8 years of relevant experience in technical program management, cloud infrastructure engineering or AI/ML and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent

• Be comfortable navigating ambiguity, handling risks, and shifting gears as needed

• Inspire people at all levels of the organization without authority

• Demonstrate ability in change management and transformation processes

• Have significant experience in Agile processes and methodologies

• Have professional experience as a Project Manager/Program Manager working effectively with cross‑functional teams

• Thrive in a fast paced environment having to manage high visibility, time sensitive, large scale complex programs.

• Have solid domain knowledge in cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, distributed systems, or AI/ML inference workloads (experience with GPU infrastructure

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