Senior Cloud Compute Product Leader

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Carson City (NV); On-site; USD 139,000 - 251,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

FlexBase program

Work from home or office flexibility

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. seeks a Senior Product Manager for Core Compute to define product strategy and roadmap for our compute offerings. You will bridge hardware layers with developer experiences and oversee the compute lifecycle across virtualization and hardware features.

You will collaborate with sales, marketing and engineering, analyze KPIs, and prioritize development based on business value and customer feedback.

Qualifications

• 12 years of product management or product development experience in cloud, virtualization, or server infrastructure.
• Deep technical knowledge of virtualization, multi-tenant cloud architectures, hypervisors, and CPU/IO hardware.
• Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence hardware engineering and software development stakeholders.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code ecosystems, cloud capacity lifecycle management, and Linux systems architecture.
• Ability to articulate business value of deeply technical cloud primitives.
• Strong relationship-building with customers and technology partners.

Responsibilities

• Gather, document, and communicate business and technical requirements.
• Define and execute the product strategy, roadmap and deliver against the product plan.
• Foster connections with cross-functional teams to promote products and gather feedback for ongoing success.
• Analyze operational metrics and trends to manage and maximize product KPIs, revenue and profitability.
• Become the trusted expert in alternative cloud infrastructure trends, bare-metal innovations, and market landscape.
• Synthesize feedback and prioritise development.

Skills

Product management

Cloud infrastructure

Cross-functional leadership

Technical storytelling

Tools

Linux

Infrastructure-as-code

Hypervisors

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. seeks a Senior Product Manager for Core Compute to define product strategy and roadmap for our compute offerings. You will bridge hardware layers with developer experiences and oversee the compute lifecycle across virtualization and hardware features.

You will collaborate with sales, marketing and engineering, analyze KPIs, and prioritize development based on business value and customer feedback.