Senior Program Manager, Strategy & Operations- Remote

Akamai Technologies is building an innovative inference cloud that will change the way people and AI agents do their work. They are seeking a Senior Program Manager to enhance efficiency, coordination, and delivery throughout high-value AI infrastructure projects by collaborating with various teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Orchestrating cross-functional collaboration for large GPU and AI infrastructure projects, ensuring stakeholder alignment and execution of a unified strategy
• Acting as coordination point and partner to project sponsors, bringing structure, clarity, and discipline to ambiguous, high stakes opportunities and programs
• Facilitating high-speed deal cadences through sessions, checkpoints, and executive reviews, ensuring efficient, informed decisions for technical and commercial teams
• Facilitating collaboration among Sales, Solutions Architecture, Product, Finance, Operations, and external partners to define scope, tradeoffs, and scaling strategies for customers
• Identifying risks, gaps, and cross-team issues, ensuring follow-through and resolution instead of merely reporting concerns or challenges
• Removing obstacles across technical, commercial, and organizational areas while ensuring clear executive visibility into pursuit status, risks, and critical decisions

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in program management, strategic deal operations, or enterprise cloud infrastructure environments
• Excel at bringing order to ambiguity, quickly understanding complex stakeholder landscapes and creating simple, effective structures for getting work done
• Align people, decisions, and information effectively to connect and amplify efforts, driving opportunities forward without doing all tasks independently
• Have executive communication skills and comfort operating in high-visibility environments
• Have a demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders without direct authority