Akamai Technologies

Director Product Management

Akamai Technologies • $167K — $301K *
Enterprise Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of leadership experience in product management, billing, fintech, or cloud revenue operations.
  • Proven experience with complex billing system integrations combining legacy and modern cloud systems.
  • Expertise in usage-based monetization models and enterprise contract constructs.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence teams towards agile methodologies.
  • Deep knowledge of financial compliance, including SOX controls.
  • Exceptional cross-functional leadership skills across multiple departments.
  • Experience in structuring billing for emerging technologies.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the product vision and multi-year roadmap for the billing and commercial platform.
  • Architect integrations of legacy billing systems with modern cloud platforms.
  • Enable product-led growth through improved customer journeys and self-service options.
  • Build enterprise-level commerce capabilities for complex billing scenarios.
  • Partner with engineering to adopt agile frameworks and maintain compliance standards.
  • Establish reusable commercial capabilities to support new product launches.
  • Lead cross-functional alignment to transform billing into a strategic growth driver.

Benefits

  • Healthcare coverage including mental health services.
  • 401K savings plan with company match.
  • Paid time off for vacation and sick leave.
  • Parental leave and family-friendly benefits.
  • Employee assistance program focusing on wellness.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Are you eager to lead the global product strategy and roadmap for Akamai's billing and commercial platform?

Do you want to converge legacy enterprise billing with modern cloud compute platforms while driving product-led growth?

Join our team

Akamai Cloud Technology Group empowers customers to build, deploy, and scale distributed applications across a global cloud platform. Our Billing and Commercial platform team creates unified commercial capabilities, pricing enablement, usage visibility, and invoicing platforms. We power commercial interactions across Akamai's Compute, Delivery, and Security portfolios.

Partner with the best

You will lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Akamai's global billing ecosystem. In this role, you will drive the strategic direction of legacy enterprise billing stacks with cloud compute systems to eliminate customer friction.

As a Director Product Management, you will be responsible for:
  • Driving the overarching product vision and multi-year roadmap for billing and commercial platform and experience across Compute, Delivery, and Security.
  • Architect the convergence of legacy enterprise billing stacks with high-growth cloud compute billing systems to eliminate customer friction.
  • Enabling product-led growth through frictionless customer journeys, promotional credits, real-time cost visibility, and self-service account management.
  • Building enterprise commerce capabilities supporting negotiated pricing, complex commitments, custom discounts, credits, and consolidated billing requirements.
  • Partnering with engineering delivery organizations to transition technical teams toward modern agile frameworks and maintain SOX compliance.
  • Establishing reusable commercial capabilities for rating, metering, entitlements, and invoicing to accelerate new product launches and M&A integrations.
  • Leading cross-functional alignment across Product, Sales, Finance, Engineering, and Legal to turn billing into a strategic growth enabler.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:
  • Have 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in product management, billing, fintech, or cloud revenue operations.
  • Possess proven experience architecting complex billing system integrations, merging legacy enterprise platforms with modern consumption-based cloud systems.
  • Demonstrate expertise in usage-based monetization models, pricing enablement, metering, rating, and enterprise contract constructs.
  • Have a track record of driving organizational change and influencing technical delivery teams to adopt agile development methodologies.
  • Maintain deep knowledge of financial compliance standards, including implementing strict SOX controls across high-growth platform environments.
  • Exhibit exceptional cross-functional leadership skills to align executive stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Sales, Finance, and Legal.
  • Show experience structuring billing and monetization platforms for emerging AI technology, agentic workflows, and acquired platforms.

Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $167,600 - $301,800/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.

About Akamai Technologies

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is a global content delivery network (CDN), cybersecurity, and cloud service company. The company provides web and mobile performance solutions, cloud security solutions, enterprise access solutions, and video delivery solutions. Akamai was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company serves a wide range of industries, including media and entertainment, gaming, software, financial services, healthcare, and others. Akamai is publicly traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the ticker symbol AKAM.
Learn more about Akamai Technologies
Size
8,700 employees
Market Cap
$13 billion
Industry
Net Income
$557 million
Founded
1998
5 Year Trend
+8.1%
Revenue
$3.1 billion
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