Senior Product Manager (Compute)

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.

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.

• Gathering, documenting, and communicating business and technical requirements.
• Defining and executing the product strategy, roadmap and delivering 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.

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 its 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.

We support your health, well‑being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits: https://www.akamai.com/careers/working-at-akamai?utm_source=akamai&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benefits

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only – the base salary for this position ranges from $139,300 – $250,700/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, 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.

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.