Developer Marketing Manager
Listed on 2026-10-24
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Marketing / Advertising / PR
Event Management & Planning, Marketing Strategy, Digital Marketing, Marketing Management
Are you passionate about bringing developers and technical buyers to the world's most distributed cloud platform, and proving it with numbers?
Do you want an opportunity to make podcasts, webinars, and a Kube Con presence all point toward the same goal?
Join our innovative product marketing team.
As a Developer Marketing Manager, you will work closely with developer relations, product marketing, and sales to reach developers and technical decision makers across Akamai's Cloud and Security portfolios. You will run the programs that turn developer interest into engaged accounts, pipeline, and product adoption across PLG and SLG motions.
Partner with the bestIn this role, you will be the marketing counterpart to Developer Relations and the main point of contact for Security product marketing, partnering with demand generation, sales, events, and community teams. If you enjoy turning developer programs into measurable results for both self-serve and sales-led growth, this is the role for you.
As a Developer Marketing Manager, you will be responsible for:
- Running developer and technical programs end to end, including podcasts, webinars, live streams, workshops, and onboarding sessions
- Turning Dev Rel content and expertise into repeatable programs that support Cloud and Security launches and campaigns
- Supporting SLG with field events and customer briefings for target accounts, and PLG with programs that drive sign-ups
- Leading Akamai's developer and open source presence across Kube Con, the CNCF, The Linux Foundation, and projects like Spin
- Managing the budget, vendors, sponsor ships, and ROI of each program, and reporting outcomes back to stakeholders
- Owning the developer program calendar with Dev Rel and product marketing, scaling what works and retiring what doesn't
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 8 years of relevant experience in developer, community, or program marketing and a degree in Marketing, another related field or its equivalent
- Have experience running recurring developer, member, or customer programs such as webinars, live streams, and newsletters at scale
- Have supported sales-led teams through field events, sponsor ships, and customer briefings, managing budgets, vendors, and ROI
- Have partnered closely with Dev Rel teams to turn developer content into repeatable programs
- Excel at written communication and making technical topics accessible to developers and buyers
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. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security :
Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery :
Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI :
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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