Director Product Management

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 302,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K savings plan

Company holidays

Vacation (PTO)

Sick time

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. seeks a Director of Product Management to own the global billing and commercial platform strategy. You will lead the vision for converging legacy enterprise billing with modern cloud billing, enabling frictionless customer journeys and enterprise-grade invoicing.

You will coordinate across Product, Sales, Finance, Engineering, and Legal to drive monetization, pricing, and governance. This role demands senior leadership in a complex fintech environment.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in product management, billing, fintech, or cloud revenue operations.
• Experience architecting complex billing system integrations, merging legacy enterprise platforms with modern cloud systems.
• Expertise in usage-based monetization models, pricing enablement, metering, rating, and enterprise contract constructs.
• Ability to drive organizational change and influence delivery teams to adopt agile methodologies.
• Knowledge of financial compliance standards, including SOX controls across high-growth platforms.
• Strong cross-functional leadership to align Product, Engineering, Sales, Finance, and Legal.
• Experience structuring billing and monetization platforms for AI technology and acquired platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead the overarching product vision and multi-year roadmap for billing and commercial platform across Compute, Delivery, and Security.
• Architect the convergence of legacy billing stacks with cloud compute billing to reduce customer friction.
• Enable product-led growth through frictionless journeys, credits, real-time cost visibility, and self-service management.
• Build enterprise commerce capabilities for negotiated pricing, complex commitments, discounts, credits, and consolidated billing.
• Partner with engineering to modernize delivery and maintain SOX compliance.
• Establish reusable commercial capabilities for rating, metering, entitlements, and invoicing to accelerate launches and M&A integrations.
• Lead cross-functional alignment with executives across Product, Sales, Finance, Engineering, and Legal.

Skills

Leadership

Billing systems

Pricing enablement

Metering & Rating

Enterprise contracts

Agile development

SOX compliance

Cross-functional leadership

AI monetization

Job description

Job Description

Are you eager to lead the global product strategy and roadmap for Akamai's billing and commercial platform?

Do you want to converge legacy enterprise billing with modern cloud compute platforms while driving product-led growth?

Join our team

Akamai Cloud Technology Group empowers customers to build, deploy, and scale distributed applications across a global cloud platform. Our Billing and Commercial platform team creates unified commercial capabilities, pricing enablement, usage visibility, and invoicing platforms. We power commercial interactions across Akamai's Compute, Delivery, and Security portfolios.

Partner with the best

You will lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Akamai's global billing ecosystem. In this role, you will drive the strategic direction of legacy enterprise billing stacks with cloud compute systems to eliminate customer friction.

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

• Driving the overarching product vision and multi-year roadmap for billing and commercial platform and experience across Compute, Delivery, and Security.
• Architect the convergence of legacy enterprise billing stacks with high-growth cloud compute billing systems to eliminate customer friction.
• Enabling product-led growth through frictionless customer journeys, promotional credits, real-time cost visibility, and self-service account management.
• Building enterprise commerce capabilities supporting negotiated pricing, complex commitments, custom discounts, credits, and consolidated billing requirements.
• Partnering with engineering delivery organizations to transition technical teams toward modern agile frameworks and maintain SOX compliance.
• Establishing reusable commercial capabilities for rating, metering, entitlements, and invoicing to accelerate new product launches and M&A integrations.
• Leading cross-functional alignment across Product, Sales, Finance, Engineering, and Legal to turn billing into a strategic growth enabler.

Do What You Love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in product management, billing, fintech, or cloud revenue operations.
• Possess proven experience architecting complex billing system integrations, merging legacy enterprise platforms with modern consumption-based cloud systems.
• Demonstrate expertise in usage-based monetization models, pricing enablement, metering, rating, and enterprise contract constructs.
• Have a track record of driving organizational change and influencing technical delivery teams to adopt agile development methodologies.
• Maintain deep knowledge of financial compliance standards, including implementing strict SOX controls across high-growth platform environments.
• Exhibit exceptional cross-functional leadership skills to align executive stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Sales, Finance, and Legal.
• Show experience structuring billing and monetization platforms for emerging AI technology, agentic workflows, and acquired platforms.

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. 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.

Benefits at Akamai

• healthcare
• 401K savings plan
• company holidays
• vacation (in the form of PTO)
• sick time
• family friendly benefits including parental leave
• employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness

Eligibility requirements apply.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.

We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

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Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $167,600 - $301,800/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.