Senior Director, Cloud Product Marketing - Remote

Does steering the innovation narrative for Cloud Computing excite you?

Do you enjoy bringing stories to life and working with the world's leading brands?

Join our Innovative Product Marketing team

Product Marketing enables our teams to explain and demonstrate how Akamai stays ahead of our customer's needs at the edge of innovation. Our team engages analysts, sales and presales teams, partners and customers. With value propositions across edge computing, cloud computing platforms and more, there is a lot to tell!

Partner with the best

You will work with a vast product portfolio and top customers from different industries. Being the subject-matter expert on the cloud computing market, latest trends, and steering our teams to capitalize on our unique differentiation. Collaborating cross-functionally to support customers with our market leading cloud products with unlimited opportunities for learning.

As a Senior Director of Cloud Product Marketing, you will be responsible for:

• Understanding the cloud computing market to build and maintain addressable market research to steer go-to-market strategies
• Managing all aspects of the go-to-market strategy for our cloud computing, security, and delivery products
• Engaging IT decision makers while working closely with developer advocates to influence developers to build on Akamai
• Partnering with Product Management and Sales Leaders to drive strategic insights and opportunities
• Crafting clear and engaging story lines that articulate Akamai's differentiation and alignment to business imperatives
• Coordinating content, messaging, and event strategies with the global Marketing team to engage customers and prospects to achieve business targets
  
• Using data and research to evaluate impact, and push for continuous improvement that shows measurable business results
• Leading a diverse team to bring stories to life through narratives, digital content, data visualizations and tools

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 12 years of relevant experience and a Master's Degree in Marketing, Product Management, Computer Science or another related field
• Have a proven track record of success as a leader Product Marketing
• Have experience working with cloud providers including IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS
• Be versed in pragmatic marketing, enabling the customer journey, how to measure and increase engagement
• Have experience leading messaging, content development, ideation, research, strategy, planning, with clear actionable plans
• Be at ease managing multiple projects, working individually, and collaborating across teams
• Enjoy collaborating and working with cross-disciplinary teams to build content strategies and the assets to support them

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.

Learn what makes Akamai a great place to work

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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!

Akamai is committed to complying with COVID-19 requirements in the countries where it operates. For locations or roles subject to vaccination mandates, we require proof of vaccination, if permitted, as a condition of employment. We will provide additional details regarding our vaccine record submission protocols during the hiring and onboarding process.

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