Director Product Management

Akamai Technologies GmbH; Singapore; On-site; SGD 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai Technologies GmbH in Singapore seeks a Director of Product Management in the Cloud Technology Group to connect customers, markets, and GTM Product Management, ensuring customer needs and market signals shape our strategy.

You will drive expansion signals, identify APJ opportunities, translate customer feedback into product direction, and align Sales, Engineering, and GTM teams across initiatives.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience, with meaningful time spent in cloud, compute, or adjacent infrastructure domains.

Responsibilities

• Identify and develop expansion signals through direct customer engagement.
• Recognize patterns in buying behavior and use cases that suggest broader market opportunities for the APJ region.
• Partner closely with GTM Product Management to accurately capture APJ customer needs, adoption blockers, and market signals.
• Enable large, complex, or custom customer opportunities by translating asks into clear problem statements.
• Ensure pricing, scope, and delivery implications are explicit before commitments are made.
• Understand and translate customer objections into actionable input for GTM Product Management.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and executives on mergers and acquisitions relevant to the security business.
• Close the loop on customer feedback by driving day‑to‑day cross‑functional alignment across Sales, Engineering, and GTM Product.

Job description

A Director Product Management in Akamai's Cloud Technology Group will serve as the strategic connective tissue between customers, the market, and GTM Product Management, ensuring real customer needs, adoption blockers, and market signals are understood and incorporated into product strategy.

• Identify and develop expansion signals through direct customer engagement.
• Recognize patterns in buying behavior and use cases that suggest broader market opportunities for the APJ region.
• Partner closely with GTM Product Management to accurately capture APJ customer needs, adoption blockers, and market signals.
• Enable large, complex, or custom customer opportunities by translating asks into clear problem statements.
• Ensure pricing, scope, and delivery implications are explicit before commitments are made.
• Understand and translate customer objections into actionable input for GTM Product Management.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and executives on mergers and acquisitions relevant to the security business.
• Close the loop on customer feedback by driving day‑to‑day cross‑functional alignment across Sales, Engineering, and GTM Product.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• 8+ years of product management experience, with meaningful time spent in cloud, compute, or adjacent infrastructure domains.