Vice President Product Management IaaS

About the role

Akamai is transforming cloud computing with a distributed platform built for developers, startups, and enterprises needing scalable, secure, high-performance infrastructure. In this role, you'll help define and execute our cloud market strategy, partnering across engineering, go-to-market (GTM), and executive teams to build competitive cloud products and lead cross-functional initiatives. You'll bring deep infrastructure and cloud platform expertise to engage credibly in customer discussions and technical architecture reviews.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision and multi-year strategy for our Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) portfolio, aligning to broader cloud growth objectives.
• Build and lead a high-performing team of product leaders, driving accountability, execution discipline, and a culture of customer obsession.
• Lead cross-functional execution across product, engineering, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), ensuring alignment and delivery against roadmap priorities.
• Partner with engineering, design, sales, and marketing to bring products from concept to launch and scale adoption.
• Leverage deep market, customer, and industry insights to identify differentiation opportunities and shape product positioning.
• Own business outcomes across your portfolio, including revenue growth, adoption, and customer satisfaction.
• Collaborate with go-to-market leadership on pricing, packaging, and segment strategy, and represent Akamai externally with customers, partners, and analysts.

Requirements

• 15 years of product management experience in cloud, compute, or infrastructure domains; bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
• Successful track record of building and scaling product management organizations, including hiring, mentoring, and establishing effective operating rhythms.
• Experience defining and executing product strategy at a senior level, including vision setting, stakeholder alignment, and cross-functional execution.
• Deep fluency in cloud computing concepts, including compute, virtualization, containerization, storage, networking, and managed services.
• Experience launching and scaling products successfully, with the ability to articulate outcomes, lessons learned, and areas for improvement.
• Ability to align stakeholders through clear communication, collaboration, and influential leadership.
• Lead through influence across engineering, SRE, and operations, aligning stakeholders around a shared product vision.
• Navigate across developer and enterprise audiences, understanding distinct needs and buying motions.
• Executive presence and excellent communication skills, representing the company effectively with customers, partners, and analysts.

Benefits

• Industry-leading healthcare benefits.
• 401K savings plan.
• Company holidays, vacation (PTO), and sick time.
• Family-friendly benefits, including parental leave.
• Employee assistance program with a focus on mental and financial wellness.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
• Development opportunities, including programs like GROW and Mentoring, internal events (e.g., APEX Expo), and tools such as LinkedIn Learning.

Eligibility requirements apply.

Pay

The base salary for this position ranges from $228,600 to $411,400 per year. A candidate’s salary is determined by various factors, including relevant work experience, skills, certifications, and location. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of an annual bonus, incentives, and equity awards.