Principal Product Manager, AI-First Cloud DevTools Strategy

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Springfield (IL); On-site; USD 160,000 - 287,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a leader to shape the multi-year strategy for cloud APIs, developer tools, and infrastructure integrations within the Akamai Cloud Technology Group. You will bridge architecture and product strategy across the Compute Foundations team.

You will lead vision and execution for developer tooling, API design standards, and AI-first workflows, including CLI, SDKs, and IaC providers, while unifying the Developer Experience across platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience shaping multi-year product strategy for cloud developer tooling.
• Experience modernizing APIs and improving API quality.
• Experience designing AI-first developer interfaces and LLM workflows.
• Experience defining API guidelines, OpenAPI standards, and governance.
• Experience delivering developer tools such as CLI, SDKs, and IaC.

Responsibilities

• Define multi-year vision and execution roadmap for Akamai Cloud developer tooling.
• Modernize enterprise API paths and improve platform performance.
• Pioneer AI-first interfaces for AI agents and LLM workflows.
• Collaborate on API design guidelines, OpenAPI standards, and governance.
• Oversee development of CLI, SDKs, and IaC providers.
• Drive unified Developer Experience across platforms.

Skills

Product strategy

Roadmapping

API tooling

AI interfaces

OpenAPI standards

API gateway

CLI tools

SDKs

IaC

DevEx

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a leader to shape the multi-year strategy for cloud APIs, developer tools, and infrastructure integrations within the Akamai Cloud Technology Group. You will bridge architecture and product strategy across the Compute Foundations team.

You will lead vision and execution for developer tooling, API design standards, and AI-first workflows, including CLI, SDKs, and IaC providers, while unifying the Developer Experience across platforms.