Senior Product Manager, Compute & Infrastructure

Responsibilities

• 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

• 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.