Principal Product Manager: AI-Driven Cloud DevTools

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Baton Rouge (LA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 287,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Product Manager in Louisiana to shape the multi-year strategy for Akamai Cloud developer tooling and infrastructure integrations.

You will lead vision, strategy, and execution for how developers interact with Akamai Cloud, evolving APIs, CLI, SDKs, and Terraform providers in collaboration with engineering.

Focus on API design guidelines, OpenAPI standards, and Model Context Protocol workflows while unifying the Developer Experience across platforms.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant product management experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience designing REST, gRPC, or GraphQL APIs and delivering developer tools like CLIs, SDKs, and Terraform providers.
• Experience evolving mature developer platforms and managing breaking-change lifecycles.

Responsibilities

• Crafting and driving the multi-year vision, product strategy, and execution roadmap for Akamai Cloud developer tooling.
• Modernizing API paths while elevating API quality, consistency, and platform performance.
• Pioneering AI-first workflows and LLM-driven interfaces.
• Collaborating on API design guidelines, OpenAPI standards, schema governance, and API Gateway capabilities.
• Overseeing product development for official developer tools including CLI, SDKs, and Infrastructure as Code providers.
• Influencing the Developer Experience across platforms to ensure consistency and efficiency.

Skills

30+ years?

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

OpenAPI

API Gateway

OAuth2

mTLS

Terraform

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Product Manager in Louisiana to shape the multi-year strategy for Akamai Cloud developer tooling and infrastructure integrations.

You will lead vision, strategy, and execution for how developers interact with Akamai Cloud, evolving APIs, CLI, SDKs, and Terraform providers in collaboration with engineering.

Focus on API design guidelines, OpenAPI standards, and Model Context Protocol workflows while unifying the Developer Experience across platforms.