Senior Product Manager

Akamai's Cloud Compute Product Management organization oversees the compute instances, hypervisors, and server profiles that power our global distributed cloud. By optimizing our core capabilities, the team enables secure, highly performant, and cost-effective infrastructure that drives trust and supports future cloud growth. 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. Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both. 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. Pay Range The base salary for this position ranges from $139,300 - $250,700/year; a candidate's salary is determined by various factors including relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. 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. Equal Employment Opportunity Rights Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status. About the Role: As a Senior Product Manager on the Cloud Networking Product team, you will contribute to the mission of making connectivity to and from Akamai Cloud reliable, scalable, secure, cost efficient and simple to use so that users can focus on building streaming applications instead of managing infrastructure. You’ll own and drive the vision and strategy for the API platform and be the trusted resource for product, engineering, design, sales, and marketing to deliver a high-quality experience. What You Will Do: Understand our users: Conduct interviews and analyze data to define personas, user journeys, and key jobs to be done. Drive API Platform Strategy & Roadmap to simplify the experience for developers, operators, and data scientists across all Akamai products with AI. Define interfaces powering API, CLI and Terraform, data models, and processes and launch new network options and iterate on existing ones. Own the whole lifecycle: Drive multi-team, cross-functional initiatives from conception through initial delivery and ongoing iteration after launch. Close the loop: Define targets, measure performance, share results, and incorporate learnings into strategy and product. Manage complexity: Deliver value while navigating a fast-evolving product, ambitious partnership targets, and growth. What You Will Bring: 5+ years of experience as a Product Manager with focus on cloud technologies. Experience building and supporting enterprise-grade products as a product manager, engineer or solutions architect. Experience building, writing, maintaining and defending a clear product roadmap and backlog backed by user stories and customer research. Excellent analytical, communication & collaboration skills. Ability to build relationships with coworkers and customers located around the world. Demonstrated ability to drive business outcomes through product changes. Ready to build what's next? 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