| Location: | Cambridge, MA, US | Posted Date: | 2014-01-08 00:00:00.0 |
| Cost Center: | 538 | Category: | |
| ID: | 9619 |
Overview:
About the Job:
Akamai is looking for a Senior Product Manager with the creativity, vision, drive, and experience to lead the development of new service offerings and help drive and enhance existing services in the Consumer Web product line. The Senior Product Manager will be responsible for defining the product's overall strategy and driving execution against it.
About the Team:
The team is a group of industry leading product and engineering professionals dedicated to the innovation of technology that makes web experiences better for businesses. Our products and services are used by the world's top e-commerce, media and entertainment, travel, financial services, and government web-sites to deliver high-quality user experience that increase page views, conversions, revenues, and the overall effectiveness of their sites and native applications.
Responsibilities:
This individual would be responsible for one or more of the products in the Consumer Web product line.
Responsibilities would include but not be limited to:
* Gather, document and communicate business and technical requirements.
* Brainstorm with the product team to create product strategy and roadmap.
* Follow industry trends and competition to adjust product strategy and roadmap.
* Define the business strategy and manage execution against the business plan for the product.
* Lead cross-functional product teams including engineering, network operations, sales, support, finance, legal and marketing to execute against product releases.
* Analyze and model potential M&A opportunities to grow the product line.
* Manage products through various launch phases and follow-on releases.
* Analyze operational metrics and trends to manage product revenue and profitability.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications
* 7+ years of experience with product management, product marketing, product development or equivalent experience.
* 2+ years of experience with internet-related technologies.
Education: BA/BS Degree, MBA preferred. Or equivalent industry experience may be substituted for education.
Desired Qualifications
* Ability to assess new markets, analyze business opportunities and execute against them.
* Understanding of web technologies and web performance solutions, as well as ability to learn new technologies quickly.
* Understanding of product management discipline – including product lifecycle management and some experience with product line strategic planning.
* Excellent written and oral communication skills.
*Highly self-motivated and self-sufficient.
* Creative and out-of-the-box thinker.
* Proven track record in growing a product business and working within a cross-functional environment to drive results.
Other Information
* Is relocation available for this position: Yes
* Is US Citizenship required: No
* Is a Security Clearance Required: No
If yes, applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation & must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
About Akamai
Akamai provides market-leading, cloud-based services for optimizing Web and mobile content and applications, online HD video, and secure e-commerce. Combining highly-distributed, energy-efficient computing with intelligent software, Akamai has grown from a theoretical “big idea” in 1998, into one of the world’s most successful technology companies. With more than
About Akamai:
Akamai® is the leading cloud platform for helping enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device, anywhere. At the core of the company’s solutions is the Akamai Intelligent PlatformTM providing extensive reach, coupled with unmatched reliability, security, visibility and expertise. Akamai removes the complexities of connecting the increasingly mobile world, supporting 24/7 consumer demand, and enabling enterprises to securely leverage the cloud. To learn more about how Akamai is accelerating the pace of innovation in a hyperconnected world, please visit www.akamai.com and follow @Akamai on Twitter.
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