Senior Product Marketing Manager - Hybrid

Senior Product Marketing Manager

Are you passionate about bringing product and technical stories about Zero Trust architectures and approaches to life? Do you want an opportunity to build and deliver product strategies at a leading technology organization? Join our innovative security product marketing team.

As a Senior Product Marketing Manager, collaborate with marketing and product teams to enhance Akamai's presence and influence in the market. Partner with demand and growth marketers to create strategies for engaging customers through key marketing initiatives. Contribute significantly to Akamai's growth by driving product adoption across diverse audiences comprehensively and on a large scale.

Partner with the best

You will contribute to the security product portfolio and collaborate with the Zero Trust product marketing team on impactful messaging strategies. This team develops technical narratives, partners with digital marketing to enhance buyer journeys, and supports customer interactions at events. If working across teams and delivering value throughout the product lifecycle excites you, this role aligns perfectly.

As a Senior Product Marketing Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Creating a foundation for teams/stakeholders, understanding each product's technical capabilities, highlighting product-market fit, value drivers/product positioning.
• Working closely with product teams to define the product vision for different personas, and product-led growth strategies for self-service cloud customers
• Delivering high value user journeys that drive customers to greater adoption and usage across the Zero Trust security portfolio.
• Driving engagement for different stages of user growth through innovative stories around our solutions.
• Collaborating with Marketing, Sales/Product teams, creating awareness and demand strategies and tactics for product releases and customer stories.
• Designing effective educational materials, programs, plays/campaigns that drive awareness and adoption metrics, aligning with Product Marketing leadership.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have prior experience with product growth strategies and tactics at enterprise technology companies.
• Have practical and technical knowledge of zero trust architectural approaches, SaaS applications, cloud infrastructure and cloud-native security.
• Have experience contributing to product development cycle and release activities in previous roles.
• Define and deliver consistent and high-value user experiences to drive usage and adoption for developers and self-service businesses
• Possess extensive writing and communication skills, with ability to adapt to internal vs. external audiences effectively.
• Demonstrate success in positioning network security products.
• Have the ability to drive strategy and process simultaneously, developing tools or resources to improve efficiency.
• Be collaborative, creative, and willing to learn from the broader team.

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.

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.

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!