Senior Director, Product Management – AI Inferencing

United States (Remote)

Are you interested in driving customer and developer experience for next generation cloud services?

Do you enjoy creating products that customers love?

Join our Cloud Technology Group!

As part of Akamai's Cloud Technology Group (CTG), our mission is to empower customers to build powerful, distributed applications, through a simple, scalable, AI and cloud platform. We provide the infrastructure and services that enable developers and enterprises to build next generation edge native applications.

Partner with the best

You will lead the product team managing Akamai's AI infrastructure and inference initiatives, from GPU clusters to scalable model deployment. Capitalizing on substantial company investments, defining product strategy, refining offerings, and ensuring differentiation as the AI industry evolves.

As a Senior Director of Product Management AI, you will be responsible for:

• Driving long-term product vision and strategy for AI infrastructure, leveraging insights to identify differentiation opportunities, shape positioning, and defining investment priorities.
• Owning business outcomes across GPU and cloud inferencing portfolio, including revenue growth, adoption, and customer satisfaction.
• Collaborating with go-to-market leadership on pricing, packaging, and segment strategy, and representing Akamai externally with customers, partners, and analysts.
• Leading cross-functional execution across product, engineering, and SRE to advance our AI platform, delivering GPU infrastructure and serverless inference innovations from concept through scale
• Building and leading a high-performing team of product leaders, driving accountability, execution discipline, and a culture of customer obsession.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Demonstrate expertise in AI infrastructure, including GPU systems, model deployment, serverless inference, and technologies supporting scalable AI workloads.
• Have direct product experience building and launching commercial AI infrastructure or inference platforms, from product definition through launch, adoption, and monetization.
• Build the foundational platforms and services enabling developers to deploy and manage AI workloads, instead of relying on third-party solutions.
• Bring a successful track record of building and scaling product management organizations and establishing effective operating rhythms.
• Have executive presence and excellent communication skills, representing the company effectively with customers, partners, and analysts.

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security
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Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery
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Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI
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Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

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