Senior Technical Program Manager

Are you excited to work with innovative security products?

Do you enjoy contributing to technical projects, addressing complex problems, and driving business objectives through innovative solutions?

Join our growing, highly respected Enterprise Security Group (ESG)

Our program management team partners with Product Management and Engineering. They own and drive the innovation of our Enterprise Security Products for our customers. Dedicated to our flagship Security products. Oversight of the whole product lifecycle and the delivery of key strategic programs.

Shape the success of projects

Driving cross-functional collaboration across product lifecycles, this role oversees complex projects and multidisciplinary teams. Success in this impactful position directly supports team objectives and advances Akamai's key business goals.

As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you will be responsible for:

Overseeing cross-functional teams, improving operational processes, and offering expertise in planning and executing diverse projects.
Collaborating with Customer Success to enhance experiences, establishing feedback loops, and aligning insights with product development.
Monitoring, documenting, and presenting program status, risks, opportunities, dependencies, and success metrics to senior internal stakeholders.
Collaborating with Product Line and Engineering Leadership, identifying problems, prioritizing needs, ensuring accountability, proposing innovative solutions.
Adopting best-practice guidelines to influencing and implementing continuous improvements to the processes.
Working with Customer Success by working with Product and Engineering leadership team daily.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

Bring 5+ of program or project management experience, ideally collaborating closely with customer-focused teams.
Unite stakeholders, including engineers, VPs, and Customer Success Managers, around shared goals focused on customer success.
Demonstrate exceptional verbal and written communication abilities while showcasing leadership experience and self-motivation.
Have an excellent knowledge of frameworks and tools such as Jira/Confluence
Be familiar with development processes and lifecycle
Have an experienced in working with large number of stakeholders in / cross units
Manage and collaborate effectively within a matrixed organization, including diverse cultures, leadership levels, and time zones.
Think strategically and be able to dive to technical aspects quickly

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.

Working for you

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!

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