Senior Technical Program Manager

About the role

Join the Cloud Technology Group Product Program Management team as a Senior Technical Program Manager, leading strategic programs and initiatives across the enterprise. This role oversees programs aligning Akamai's Cloud Infrastructure with global data laws, boundary conditions, and regional compliance frameworks. You will foster collaboration among technical and business stakeholders to simplify risk landscapes into actionable solutions, ensuring operational excellence.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

• 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's Degree or its equivalent.
• Relevant experience in Compliance frameworks, such as: ISO27K01, C5 Type 2, NIS2, SOC2 (Type I & II), HIPAA (known as ISOC collectively).
• Ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment.
• Experience analyzing workload and communicating technical issues to senior stakeholders of varying technical ability.
• Ability to 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 includes:

• 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.

Benefits

We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. Benefits include:

• 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 with a focus on mental and financial wellness.
• FlexBase program, allowing employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.
• Incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).

Eligibility requirements apply.

Pay

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).