Senior Product Manager - Micro-Segmentation Platform and Operational Experience

Job Description

Are you excited to work with innovative enterprise security products?

Do you want an opportunity to make a difference?

Join Akamai Enterprise Security Group

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is changing the way organizations protect their data centers and clouds from threats in the AI era. Our team boasts some of the most talented and experienced cybersecurity and data center experts. We're always looking for new people to inspire us and make us better.

Partner with the best

We're looking for an experienced Product Manager to join us and own the Platform and Operational Experience aspects of the Guardicore product, ensuring it delivers exceptional experiences to our global enterprise customers. You will drive this through product strategy, innovation, and execution across the product development lifecycle, removing adoption frictions and boosting customer value.

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

• Shaping the product strategy and the product roadmap in line with stakeholders, company vision and market trends.
• Leading cross-functional efforts across engineering, design, and GTM to drive high-velocity, high-quality product execution.
• Hands-on work to define, prioritize, and communicate clear product requirements and use scenarios, ensuring alignment on product specifications.
• Translating stakeholder requirements into detailed product specifications that guide engineering development and design.
• Collaborating with customers and internal stakeholders to validate product concepts and requirements.
• Serving as the primary point of contact for product-related questions from engineering and field teams, providing timely clarifications to ensure alignment and execution.
• Maintaining a deep understanding of relevant technologies and contributing as a thought leader in the security industry.
  
  

Do What You Love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 5 years of product management experience in enterprise software which uses a distributed, scalable, multi-component architecture
• Have an in-depth understanding of network security and security operations within the modern data centers.
• Be a great communicator who can mediate between customer, product, marketing and engineering.
• Learn complex technical concepts and product architecture efficiently, translating them into clear, compelling messaging for non-technical audiences effectively.
• Have a drive to design new, innovative and disruptive products.
• Have an Inherent passion for cybersecurity and solving problems.
  
  

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.

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At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.

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Benefits

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors
  
  

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

About Us

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

Join us

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!