Do you enjoy building scalable, robust cloud infrastructure that powers applications globally?
Are you passionate about making virtualized infrastructure fast, accessible, and frictionless for developers?
Come join our Cloud Technology Product Group!
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.
Partner with the best
As a Senior Product Manager for Core Compute, define and guide product strategy for Akamai's compute offerings. Connect technical hardware layers with developer experiences, ensuring compute instances provide exceptional value compared to traditional cloud providers. Oversee the compute lifecycle, including hardware assessments and features within the cloud platform's virtualization layer.
As a Senior Product Manager, you will be responsible for:
- Gathering, documenting, and communicating business and technical requirements.
- Defining and executing the product strategy, roadmap and deliver against the product plan.
- Fostering connections with cross-functional teams, such as sales and marketing, to promote products and gather feedback for ongoing success.
- Analyzing operational metrics and trends to manage and maximize product KPIs, revenue and profitability, building business cases and margin analysis.
- Becoming the trusted expert in alternative cloud infrastructure trends, bare-metal innovations, and the comparative market landscape.
- Synthesizing feedback and prioritizing development.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 12 years of experience with product management or product development within cloud, virtualization, server infrastructure, or it's equivalent.
- Demonstrate technical expertise in virtualization concepts, multi-tenant cloud architectures, hypervisors, and CPU/IO hardware architectures.
- Demonstrate an ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence hardware engineering, and software development stakeholders.
- Have familiarity with infrastructure-as-code ecosystems, cloud capacity lifecycle management, and Linux systems architecture.
- Demonstrate an outstanding ability to understand, define, and communicate the business and technical value of deeply technical cloud primitives.
- Possess deep relationship-building skills and experience collaborating with customers and technology partners.
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.
