Senior Product Manager, Compute & Infrastructure

Akamai Technologies

As a Senior Product Manager for Akamai's compute offerings, connect hardware layers with developer experiences. Guide product strategy and oversee compute lifecycle for cloud.

Posted 6/17/2026full-timeRemote • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $139,300 - $250,700 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudLinux

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and guide product strategy for Akamai's compute offerings.
Connect technical hardware layers with developer experiences, ensuring compute instances provide exceptional value compared to traditional cloud providers.
Oversee the compute lifecycle, including hardware assessments and features within the cloud platform's virtualization layer.
Gather, document, and communicate business and technical requirements.
Define and execute the product strategy, roadmap and deliver against the product plan.
Foster connections with cross-functional teams, such as sales and marketing, to promote products and gather feedback for ongoing success.
Analyze operational metrics and trends to manage and maximize product KPIs, revenue and profitability, building business cases and margin analysis.
Become the trusted expert in alternative cloud infrastructure trends, bare-metal innovations, and the comparative market landscape.
Synthesize feedback and prioritize development.

Requirements

What you’ll need

12 years of experience with product management or product development within cloud, virtualization, server infrastructure, or its equivalent.
Demonstrate technical expertise in virtualization concepts, multi-tenant cloud architectures, hypervisors, and CPU/IO hardware architectures.
Demonstrate an ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence hardware engineering, and software development stakeholders.
Have familiarity with infrastructure-as-code ecosystems, cloud capacity lifecycle management, and Linux systems architecture.
Demonstrate an outstanding ability to understand, define, and communicate the business and technical value of deeply technical cloud primitives.
Possess deep relationship-building skills and experience collaborating with customers and technology partners.

Benefits

Comp & perks

healthcare
401K savings plan
company holidays
vacation (in the form of PTO)
sick time
family friendly benefits including parental leave
employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness

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Hard Skills & Tools

product managementproduct developmentvirtualizationmulti-tenant cloud architectureshypervisorsCPU architectureIO architectureinfrastructure-as-codecloud capacity lifecycle managementLinux systems architecture

Soft Skills

leadershipcross-functional collaborationrelationship-buildingcommunicationinfluence