Principal Product Manager

Are you excited to work with innovative enterprise security products?

Do you want an opportunity to make a difference?

Join Akamai Enterprise Security Group

Akamai Enterprise Security Group protects businesses by securing assets, applications, users, and interactions using Zero Trust Segmentation, Access, and AI Control. We eliminate exposure across multi-cloud and self-hosted environments. Our team includes highly skilled cybersecurity professionals. We continually seek individuals who bring fresh perspectives and contribute to our growth and innovation.

Partner with the best

We seek an experienced Principal Product Manager to join our team. You will lead product strategy and roadmap for our modern SSE-like offering, focusing on securing user connections and AI interactions anywhere. You'll help drive growth by defining solutions that address the growing challenges of the AI era and ensuring alignment with market demands. Join us in shaping innovative, secure, and impactful solutions.

As a Principal Product Manager you will be responsible for:

• Shaping, communicating, and validating the product strategy and the product roadmap and GTM strategy in line with stakeholders, company vision, and market trends.
• Becoming an authority in the SSE and AI usage control space by working directly with customers and the field.
• Collaborating with engineering, sales, and support to deliver solutions needed to drive exponential revenue growth.
• Maintaining a deep understanding of relevant technologies and contributing as a thought leader in the security industry.
• Collaborating with the product marketing team to develop effective business and market communications that emphasize product value.
• Hands-on work to define, prioritize, and communicate product requirements and corresponding acceptance criteria.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 12+ years of professional experience within enterprise security, including at least 7 years in product management roles.
• Have an in-depth understanding of SSE/SASE domains, access controls, or AI usage control.
• Have experience leading product lines in Access management, Endpoint Security, or AI security.
• Have a proven track record of launching new products successfully from ideation to production.
• Be a great communicator who can mediate between customer, product, marketing, and engineering.
• Have an inherent passion for cybersecurity and solving problems.

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.

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At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.

Working For You

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

About Us

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

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Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!

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