Director Product Management

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

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus incentives

Equity awards

ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Plan)

Healthcare benefits

401K

Job summary

Akamai Technologies GmbH seeks a Director of Product Management to lead the global billing and commercial platform strategy across Akamai's Compute, Delivery, and Security portfolios. You will converge legacy enterprise billing with cloud compute systems to enable a frictionless customer journey.

You will drive multi-year roadmaps, enable product-led growth with real-time cost visibility and self-service features, and ensure strict SOX compliance while delivering scalable enterprise-grade

Qualifications

• 15+ years in progressive leadership roles in product management, billing, fintech, or cloud revenue ops.
• Proven ability to architect complex billing integrations merging legacy stacks with cloud systems.
• Experience enabling product-led growth through monetization, pricing enablement, metering, rating, and invoicing.

Responsibilities

• Define the overarching product vision and multi-year roadmap for billing and commercial platform across Compute, Delivery and Security.
• Architect convergence of legacy enterprise billing with cloud compute billing to reduce customer friction.
• Drive product-led growth with real-time cost visibility, self-service account management, and promotional credits.
• Build enterprise commerce capabilities for negotiated pricing, complex discounts, credits, and consolidated billing.
• Partner with engineering to shift to modern agile delivery while maintaining SOX controls.
• Establish reusable commercial capabilities for rating, metering, entitlements, and invoicing for quick launches and M&A integrations.
• Lead cross-functional alignment with Product, Sales, Finance, Engineering and Legal.

Skills

Leadership experience

Billing/fintech expertise

SOX/compliance

Cross-functional leadership

Agile delivery

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

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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.