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Senior Product Manager

Role overview

Summary

This role focuses on defining and driving strategy for core platform capabilities within Akamai's Cloud Technology Group. You will oversee identity and account management features, ensuring secure and scalable experiences for developers and enterprise customers.

Qualifications

  • Experience in product management, particularly in identity and access management.
  • Strong understanding of industry trends and market landscape relevant to IAM.
  • Ability to develop business analysis and financial models.
  • Experience in leading cross-functional teams.
  • Preferred: Familiarity with cloud services platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and define identity and account management features and strategies, including user requirements and feature prioritization.
  • Lead the evolution of core IAM capabilities including SSO, MFA, and passwordless authentication.
  • Develop comprehensive business analysis and financial models to support business cases and long-term product planning.
  • Ensure collaboration among engineering, architecture, operations, and supply chain teams for timely product delivery.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Collaboration
  • Strategic Planning

About the company

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Akamai Technologies

  • Cybersecurity
  • XLarge
  • 5,001–10,000
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every day, billions of people around the world connect with their favorite brands to shop online, play the latest video games, log into mobile banking apps, learn remotely, share videos with friends, and so much more. They may not know it, but Akamai is there, powering and protecting life online. Over 20 years ago, we set out to solve the toughest challenge of the early internet: the “World Wide Wait.” And we’ve been solving the internet’s toughest challenges ever since, working toward our vision of a safer and more connected world. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences. Our leading security, compute, and delivery solutions are helping global companies make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation. Want to power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges? Be part of an amazing team. Let’s connect: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/akamai-technologies Twitter: https://twitter.com/Akamai Blog: https://www.akamai.com/blog

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Job description

Do you enjoy building experiences that just work?

Would you like to define how users securely access and manage a cloud services platform?

Come join our Cloud Technology Group!

The Foundations team within Akamai's Cloud Technology product management organization oversees the core services and experiences that power the cloud platform. By centralizing foundational capabilities, the team enables secure, scalable, and consistent interactions across the platform while driving trust and supporting future cloud growth.

Partner with the best

As a Senior Product Manager, you will define and drive strategy for core platform capabilities, ensuring a seamless, secure, and scalable experience for both developers and enterprise customers.

As a Senior Product Manager, you will be responsible for:

  • Managing and defining identity and account management features and strategies, including user requirements, feature prioritization, roadmap, launch, and adoption.
  • Leading the evolution of core IAM capabilities including SSO, MFA and password less authentication, fine-grained authorization and service/workload identity.
  • Developing comprehensive business analysis and financial models to support business cases and long-term product planning.
  • Becoming the trusted expert in industry trends and market landscape relevant to direct and related markets for assigned product lines.
  • Ensuring collaboration among engineering, architecture, operations, and supply chain teams to achieve timely and scalable product delivery.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

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.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

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Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.

We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

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