Program Manager II Technical - Remote

Are you excited by the prospect of working with innovative cloud computing products?

Do you thrive on managing complexity and uncertainty?

Join our Cloud Technology Group Strategy & Operations team

Our Program Managers lead strategic programs and initiatives across the division. We align product, engineering, and business teams to exceed the expectations of our customers. We relied upon by leaders across the organization to execute on critical programs with high business impact.

Partner with the best

Program Managers are key contributors to Akamai's success. Responsible for leading projects, developing processes that enable to measure and improve performance resulting in customer satisfaction.

As a Technical Program Manager II, you will be responsible for:

• Planning and organizing programs at the organization level, across multiple groups.
• Identifying, assessing, mitigating risks arising from variety of situations including those that arise from dependencies between groups
• Managing product teams, working closely with Engineering, Product Management, and Program Stakeholders to meet customer needs
• Working with tooling teams to implement new or updated tools in support of team or business processes.
• Creating well-crafted messages to build consensus and/or enhance collaboration both inside and outside of the division.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 5 years of relevant experience and a High School / Bachelor's degree in program management or its equivalent
• Experience working with JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Office, and Google products
• Have experience in Identifying and managing project dependencies while maintaining accurate project plans with real-time milestone.
• Have experience with program and project management principles and practices.
• Demonstrate effective interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills and the ability to work effectively across different teams
• Be able to analyze workload and communicate technical issues to senior stakeholders of varying technical ability
• Have proven ability to deliver projects on time and on budget while communicating with key senior leaders

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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We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.

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.

Join us

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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