Vice President Product Management Cloud

Akamai Technologies is transforming cloud computing with a distributed platform designed for developers and enterprises. The Vice President of Product Management Cloud will define and execute cloud market strategy, lead cross-functional teams, and oversee the product vision for the infrastructure as a service portfolio, ensuring alignment with broader cloud growth objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Owning product vision and multi-year strategy for our infrastructure as a service (Iaas) portfolio, aligning to our broader cloud growth objectives
• Building and leading a high-performing team of product leaders, driving accountability, execution discipline, and a culture of customer obsession
• Leading cross-functional execution across product, engineering, and SRE, ensuring alignment and delivery against roadmap priorities
• Partnering with engineering, design, sales, and marketing to bring products from concept to launch and scale adoption
• Leveraging deep market, customer, and industry insights to identify differentiation opportunities and shape product positioning
• Owning business outcomes across your portfolio, including revenue growth, adoption, and customer satisfaction
• Collaborating with go-to-market leadership on pricing, packaging, and segment strategy, and representing Akamai externally with customers, partners, and analysts

Requirements:

• Possess 15 years of product management experience in cloud, compute, or infrastructure domains; bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required
• Have a successful track record of building and scaling product management organizations, including hiring, mentoring, and establishing effective operating rhythms
• Have experience defining and executing product strategy at a senior level, including vision setting, stakeholder alignment, and cross-functional execution
• Possess deep fluency in cloud computing concepts, including compute, virtualization, containerization, storage, networking, and managed services
• Have experience launching and scaling products successfully, with the ability to articulate outcomes, lessons learned, and areas for improvement
• Align stakeholders through clear communication, collaboration, and influential leadership
• Be able to 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
• Have executive presence and excellent communication skills, representing the company effectively with customers, partners, and analysts