Technical Program Manager II

Would you enjoy providing support across multiple programs?

Are you someone who thrives on managing complexity, navigating uncertainty, and driving impact across multiple high-stakes programs?

Join our Cloud Technology PMO team

Our team leads critical product initiatives across the division from concept to market. You will align product, engineering, and business teams to exceed customer expectations and execute programs with high organizational visibility.

Partner with the best

Program Managers are key contributors to Akamai's success. You will be responsible to lead projects, enhance performance, and increase customer satisfaction. You will serve as a key contributor to Akamai's successleading cross-functional teams, optimizing processes, and driving customer satisfaction.

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

• Driving diverse, cross-functional teams (including Engineering, Product Management, Architecture, Operations and other business stakeholders) to deliver on the product roadmap.
• Being proactive to identify, manage, and mitigate risks while developing robust contingency plans to keep programs on track.
• Maintaining and communicate the backlog of work to key stakeholders, providing strategic guidance on priorities based on evolving business needs.
• Maintaining, iterate, and execute a roadmap of committed work through the current calendar year.
• Delivering clear, structured program status updates and expectation changes to senior leadership using standardized communication frameworks.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 7+ years of relevant technical program management experience, paired with a Bachelor's degree or equivalent foundational experience.
• Possess in depth understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC) and experience working closely within technical engineering teams.
• Be familiar with core Internet technologies and protocols, such as DNS, HTTP, and TCP/IP.
• Be proficient with project management tools, specifically Jira, Confluence, smart sheets, Aha.
• Have excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, with a proven ability to analyze complex workloads and translate technical issues for senior stakeholders of varying technical backgrounds.

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from 92,900 - 167,100 CAD/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, RRSP, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.