Senior Technical Program Manager

Akamai Technologies GmbH; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401K Savings Plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Paid time off

Job summary

Akamai Technologies is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead strategic cross-organization programs that align with global data laws, regional compliance, and security requirements. You will collaborate with engineering, product, architecture, and legal teams to transform complex regulatory criteria into scalable system specifications and ensure program health.

Join a team that drives operational excellence, standardizes governance, and mentors junior program managers while

Qualifications

• 8 years of relevant program management experience.
• Experience with compliance frameworks such as ISO27K01, SOC2, HIPAA.
• Thrives in ambiguous environments and can manage workload effectively.
• Able to analyze workloads and communicate technical issues to senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own complex, cross-functional security initiatives; align engineering roadmaps with risks.
• Proactively manage schedules, risks, and critical decision-making processes.

Skills

Compliance knowledge

Cross-functional collaboration

Risk analysis

Stakeholder communication

Regulatory requirements

Leadership without authority

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Do you relish the prospect of leading strategic cross-organization, transformational programs?

Are you eager to work on fast paced projects that impact a global technology leader?

Join the Cloud Technology Group Product Program Management team!

Our Senior Technical Program Managers lead strategic programs and initiatives across the enterprise. We align product, engineering, architecture among others to exceed the expectations of our customers. Leaders across the organization rely on us to execute on critical programs with high business impact.

Partner with the best

This role oversees programs aligning Akamai's Cloud Infrastructure with global data laws, boundary conditions, and regional compliance frameworks. Success involves fostering collaboration among technical and business stakeholders to simplify risk landscapes into actionable solutions, ensuring operational excellence.

As a Senior Program Manager Technical, you will be responsible for:

• Exercising ownership over complex, cross-functional security initiatives; aligning engineering roadmaps with risks and embedding automated governance into systems and software lifecycles.
• Ensuring health of projects and accountability by proactively managing schedules, risks, and critical decision-making processes.
• Collaborating with engineering, product, architecture and legal teams to transform ambiguous regulatory criteria into hard system specifications at scale .
• Ensuring organizational visibility into program status and risks through reporting, steering meetings, and defining metrics-based reporting for initiative health.
• Collaborating with engineering leadership to evaluate and improve team capacity, ensuring roadmaps remain achievable, prioritized, and aligned with throughput.
• Enhancing operational efficiency by standardizing methodologies, automating recurring tasks, and implementing repeatable project governance models.
• Fostering alignment between technical and business leadership by communicating complex risks and mediating competing priorities to achieve key outcomes
• Contributing to the TPM community by guiding junior program managers, joining interview panels, and improving cross-team processes to enhance organizational maturity.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelors Degree or its equivalent.
• Demonstrate relevant experience in Compliance frameworks, such as: ISO27K01, C5 Type 2, NIS2, SOC2(Type I & II), HIPAA (known as ISOC collectively)
• Thrive in an ambiguous environment.
• Analyzing workload and communicate technical issues to senior stakeholders of varying technical ability
• Inspire people at all levels of the organization without formal authority.

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

We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

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We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $119,600 - $215,400/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.