Vice President Product Management IaaS

Overview

Are you interested in driving customer and developer experience for next generation cloud services? Do you enjoy creating products that customers love? Come join our Cloud Technology Group! Akamai is transforming cloud computing with a distributed platform built for developers, startups, and enterprises needing scalable, secure, high‑performance infrastructure. With our Cloud launch, we're redefining edge and cloud computing to power modern applications.

Our mission: make cloud computing accessible, fast, and secure for every developer, everywhere.

In this role you will help define and execute our cloud market strategy, partnering across engineering, GTM, and executive teams to build competitive cloud products and lead cross‑functional teams. You will bring deep infrastructure and cloud platform expertise to engage credibly in customer discussions and technical architecture reviews.

• Owning product vision and multi‑year strategy for our IaS portfolio, aligning to broader cloud growth objectives.
• Building and leading a high‑performing team of product leaders, driving accountability, execution discipline, and a culture of customer obsession.
• Leading cross‑functional execution across product, engineering, and SRE, ensuring alignment and delivery against roadmap priorities.
• Partnering with engineering, design, sales, and marketing to bring products from concept to launch and scale adoption.
• Leveraging deep market, customer, and industry insights to identify differentiation opportunities and shape product positioning.
• Owning business outcomes across your 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.

• 15 years of product management experience in cloud, compute, or infrastructure domains; bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.
• Successful track record of building and scaling product management organizations, including hiring, mentoring, and establishing effective operating rhythms.
• Experience defining and executing product strategy at a senior level, including vision setting, stakeholder alignment, and cross‑functional execution.
• Deep fluency in cloud computing concepts, including compute, virtualization, containerization, storage, networking, and managed services.
• Experience launching and scaling products successfully, with the ability to articulate outcomes, lessons learned, and areas for improvement.
• Ability to align stakeholders through clear communication, collaboration, and influential leadership.
• Lead through influence across engineering, SRE, and operations, aligning stakeholders around a shared product vision.
• Navigate across developer and enterprise audiences, understanding distinct needs and buying motions.
• Executive presence and excellent communication skills, representing the company effectively with customers, partners, and analysts.

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from $228,600 - $411,400 per year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications, and location. 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 health care, 401(k) savings plan, company holidays, PTO, sick time, parental leave, and an employee assistance program focusing on mental and financial wellness; eligibility requirements apply.

Akamai Technologies is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.