Technical Project Manager

Job Description

Do you want to shape the future of API security?

Would working with cutting-edge security products excite you?

Join the Akamai API Security team!

Akamai API Security provides our customers with full discovery, visibility, and protection for their entire API ecosystem

Partner with the best

The Technical Project Manager will be responsible for overseeing the full software development life cycle of our API Security product. This role requires a strong technical background, excellent project management skills, and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to ensure project success.

As a Technical Project Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Leading and managing multiple complex projects from initiation through delivery, ensuring they meet scope, budget, and timeline requirements.
• Collaborating with Product and R&D teams on defining roadmaps, aligning timelines, and overseeing resource allocation.
• Working closely with Product Management, R&D, Quality Assurance, Customer Success, Pre-Sales etc. to incorporate the right mix of features, improvements, and bug fixes into each sprint.
• Communicating proactively on project status, schedules, dependencies, issues, and risks to stakeholders
• Identifing and resolve project conflicts and roadblocks, ensuring timely delivery of project milestones.
• Developing detailed project plans, including schedules, resource allocation, and risk management.
• Creating, implementing, and optimizing processes within Product and R&D, for example roadmap and version planning, new product introduction, new feature requests, change management etc. to enhance efficiency, effectiveness and quality.
• Ensuring all project documentation is up-to-date and accessible to team members and stakeholders.
• Implementing and managing project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs.
• Monitoring and reporting on key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure project success and team performance.
  
  

Do What You Love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Have 5+ years of experience as a Technical Project Manager in an Agile development environment
• Have good project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in an exciting environment.
• Have demonstrated experience in creating, implementing and optimizing processes for Product and R&D teams in a B2B company.
• Have proven ability to define, implement and measure the effectiveness of process-related improvements.
• Own excellent organizational, leadership, and communication skills.
• Be proficient with tools such as Jira and Confluence, project management tools etc
• Have experience in defining, tracking, and reporting on KPIs to ensure project and team performance aligns with organizational goals.
• Be meticulous attention to detail.
• Have analytical and possess strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to identify and mitigate risks and issues.
• Be able to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Have experience with Agile methodologies and tools, including Scrum and Kanban. Ability to adapt Agile methodologies to fit the needs of the organization.
• Have experience working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and ability to manage multiple competing priorities and projects.
  
  

Build your career at Akamai

Our ability to shape digital life today relies on developing exceptional people like you. The kind that can turn impossible into possible. We’re doing everything we can to make Akamai a great place to work. A place where you can learn, grow and have a meaningful impact.

With our company moving so fast, it’s important that you’re able to build new skills, explore new roles, and try out different opportunities. There are so many different ways to build your career at Akamai, and we want to support you as much as possible. We have all kinds of development opportunities available, from programs such as GROW and Mentoring, to internal events like the APEX Expo and tools such as Linkedin Learning, all to help you expand your knowledge and experience here.

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