Director Product Management
Are you interested in creating market-leading Infrastructure as a Service, Cloud Native, and AI products?
Do you enjoy creating products that customers love?
Come join our Cloud Technology Group!
As part of Akamai's Cloud Technology Group (CTG), our mission is to empower customers. We aim to build powerful, distributed applications through a simple, scalable, cloud platform. We provide the infrastructure and services that enable developers and enterprises to build next-generation edge-native and AI-enabled applications.
Partner with the best
You will serve as the strategic connective tissue between customers, the market, and GTM Product Management. You are accountable for ensuring real customer needs, adoption blockers, and market signals. In particularly, around emerging AI inference and distributed workloadsare translated into clear inputs for our core product strategy.
As a Director Product Management, you will be responsible for:
- Identifying and developing expansion signals through direct customer engagement
- Recognizing patterns in buying behavior and use cases that suggest broader market opportunities for the APJ region
- Partnering closely with GTM Product Management to ensure APJ customer needs, adoption blockers, and market signals are accurately captured
- Enabling large, complex, or custom customer opportunities by translating asks into clear problem statements
- Ensuring pricing, scope, and delivery implications are explicit before commitments are
made
- Understanding and translate customer objections into actionable input for GTM Product Management
- Collaborating with internal stakeholders and executives on mergers and acquisitions relevant to the security business
- Closing the loop on customer feedback by driving day-to-day cross-functional alignment across Sales, Engineering, and GTM Product
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 8+ years of product management experience with meaningful time spent in cloud, compute, or adjacent infrastructure domains
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.
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