Senior Product Manager - Cloud Security & Zero Trust

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Saint Paul (MN); On-site; USD 139,000 - 251,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

FlexBase program

Flexible work locations

Job summary

Senior Product Manager at Akamai Technologies, Inc. leads the cloud network security product roadmap and drives GTM strategies, engaging with enterprise buyers, SEs, and sales leadership to shape product direction.

Collaboration spans engineering teams in India and Israel to translate requirements into robust cloud security solutions. The role focuses on owning strategy, validating PMF with customers, and accelerating PoCs into customers, while advocating for cloud investments across data

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience in cloud infrastructure, cloud security, or network security.
• In-depth understanding of Cloud technologies and security solutions.
• Lead enterprise B2B product strategy through complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles, partnering with SEs to accelerate deal conversion.
• Experience working with enterprise security buyers (CISOs, VP Network Security) through complex sales cycles.
• Track record of working with field teams (SEs, sales) and translating field feedback into product direction.

Responsibilities

• Owning the cloud product roadmap by defining strategy and priorities for cloud network security while balancing customer needs and engineering capacity.
• Driving product-market fit - engage customers directly to discover cloud security challenges, validate roadmap, and convert PoCs into customers.
• Leading customer and field engagement by representing the product strategically with enterprise buyers, SEs, and sales leadership to shape strategies effectively.
• Collaborating across functions with engineering, translating needs into requirements, defining criteria, and addressing trade-offs with engineering teams in India and Israel.
• Shaping the GTM strategy by collaborating with product marketing on positioning, messaging, and differentiation against competition
• Advocating for cloud investments within a broader segmentation portfolio encompassing data center, Kubernetes, and platform capabilities to influence outcomes.

Skills

Product management

Cloud infrastructure

Cloud security

Network security

B2B collaboration

Job description

Senior Product Manager at Akamai Technologies, Inc. leads the cloud network security product roadmap and drives GTM strategies, engaging with enterprise buyers, SEs, and sales leadership to shape product direction.

Collaboration spans engineering teams in India and Israel to translate requirements into robust cloud security solutions. The role focuses on owning strategy, validating PMF with customers, and accelerating PoCs into customers, while advocating for cloud investments across data