Director, Field Technology- Federal Defense & Intelligence

About the role

Would you like to engage with the Defense and Intelligence Community as an Akamai security evangelist? Would you like to serve as a trusted advisor? Come join our Field CTO Team! The team advises public sector leaders, enabling secure, scalable applications using Akamai's distributed cloud, AI infrastructure, and zero-trust security solutions.

Partner with the best. This position involves engaging with Defense and Intelligence security stakeholders, including DoD, IC, and COCOMs. Responsibilities include representing Security and Defense Edge solutions, collaborating with sales and growth teams, and relaying customer insights to product development.

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.

Responsibilities

• Operating as the primary contact for security and ADE products while supporting Sales efforts across DoD, IC, and COCOM accounts.
• Building a community of DoD and IC customers to provide feedback on product roadmaps and capability priorities, including compliance requirements.
• Leading engagements with journalists and Industry Analysts (Gartner, Forrester) in support of the PR/AR teams, reinforcing credibility in regulated defense environments
• Discussing