Vice President Product Management IaaS

About the Position

Are you interested in driving customer and developer experience for next-generation cloud services? Do you enjoy creating products that customers love? Come join our Cloud Technology Group!

Akamai is transforming cloud computing with a distributed platform built for developers, startups, and enterprises needing scalable, secure, high-performance infrastructure. With our Cloud launch, we're redefining edge and cloud computing to power modern applications. Our mission is to make cloud computing accessible, fast, and secure for every developer, everywhere.

Responsibilities

As a Vice President Product Management IaaS, you will be responsible for:

• 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

To be successful in this role you will:

• 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.

We Offer

• Competitive salary ranging from $228,600 - $411,400/year.
• Comprehensive benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (PTO), sick time, family-friendly benefits, and an employee assistance program focusing on mental and financial wellness.
• Opportunity to work remotely.

About the Company

Our ability to shape digital life today relies on developing exceptional people like you. The kind that can turn impossible into possible. We’re doing everything we can to make Akamai a great place to work. A place where you can learn, grow, and have a meaningful impact.

With our company moving so fast, it’s important that you’re able to build new skills, explore new roles, and try out different opportunities. There are so many different ways to build your career at Akamai, and we want to support you as much as possible. We have all kinds of development opportunities available, from programs such as GROW and Mentoring, to internal events like the APEX Expo and tools such as LinkedIn Learning, all to help you expand your knowledge and experience here.

Job Info

• Job Identification: 2710
• Posting Date: 05/21/2026, 11:00 AM
• Locations:
  • 145 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, 02142, US
  • (Remote)

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