Job Description

Do you relish the prospect of leading strategic cross-organization, transformational programs?

Are you eager to work on fast paced projects that impact a global technology leader?

Join the Cloud Technology Group Product Program Management team!

Our Senior Technical Program Managers lead strategic programs and initiatives across the enterprise. We align product, engineering, architecture among others to exceed the expectations of our customers. Leaders across the organization rely on us to execute on critical programs with high business impact.

Partner with the best

This role oversees programs aligning Akamai's Cloud Infrastructure with global data laws, boundary conditions, and regional compliance frameworks. Success involves fostering collaboration among technical and business stakeholders to simplify risk landscapes into actionable solutions, ensuring operational excellence.

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

• Exercising ownership over complex, cross-functional security initiatives; aligning engineering roadmaps with risks and embedding automated governance into systems and software lifecycles.
• Ensuring health of projects and accountability by proactively managing schedules, risks, and critical decision-making processes.
• Collaborating with engineering, product, architecture and legal teams to transform ambiguous regulatory criteria into hard system specifications at scale .
• Ensuring organizational visibility into program status and risks through reporting, steering meetings, and defining metrics-based reporting for initiative health.
• Collaborating with engineering leadership to evaluate and improve team capacity, ensuring roadmaps remain achievable, prioritized, and aligned with throughput.
• Enhancing operational efficiency by standardizing methodologies, automating recurring tasks, and implementing repeatable project governance models.
• Fostering alignment between technical and business leadership by communicating complex risks and mediating competing priorities to achieve key outcomes
• Contributing to the TPM community by guiding junior program managers, joining interview panels, and improving cross-team processes to enhance organizational maturity.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelors Degree or its equivalent.
• Demonstrate relevant experience in Compliance frameworks, such as: ISO27K01, C5 Type 2, NIS2, SOC2(Type I & II), HIPAA (known as ISOC collectively)
• Thrive in an ambiguous environment.
• Analyzing workload and communicate technical issues to senior stakeholders of varying technical ability
• Inspire people at all levels of the organization without formal authority.

Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $119,600 - $215,400/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.