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Director of Product Marketing (Zero Trust)

Akamai

Job Description

Posted on: 
November 18, 2024

Summary and company overview

Are you excited about enterprise security?

Are you passionate about crafting impactful, easy-to-understand stories based on complex technology value propositions?

Join our Product Marketing Team

Product Marketing enables our teams to explain and demonstrate how Akamai Security stays ahead of our customer's needs with innovation. Our team engages analysts, sales and presales teams, partners, customers, and prospects. With value propositions across zero trust, segmentation, network access, compliance and more!

Help grow our value to enterprise security teams

The Director will shape Akamai's enterprise security narrative. You will lead a team of product marketers tasked with developing messaging and positioning. This team will educate sellers, prospects and customers to increase product adoption.

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.

Responsibilities

  • Developing positioning and messaging for Akamai Enterprise Security products and services
  • Collaborating with product/engineering teams and influence product roadmaps
  • Engaging in speaking opportunities, conferences, meetups, and webinars
  • Coordinating with sales enablement, analyst/public relations and other teams ensuring consistent messaging for our customers and prospects
  • Reporting on and researching data to evaluate the impact and push for continuous improvement showing real results
  • Managing a team of diverse product marketers that are located around the globe

Job Requirements

Required Qualifications

  • 12 years of relevant B2B product marketing experience in cybersecurity and a Bachelor's Degree

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience leading content development processes - ideation, research, strategy, planning, project management - with clear, actionable plans
  • Manage multiple projects, setting stakeholder expectations, working individually, leading, and collaborating across teams as well as manage a team of product marketers
  • Be well-versed in cybersecurity, particularly in enterprise security and Zero Trust approach
  • Be comfortable in collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams and stakeholders in highly matrixed organizations and ability to drive and turn large group discussions into deliverables

Additional commentary

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

Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like!

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!

Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from $149,500 - $310,500/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications, and location. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of an annual bonus or incentives, equity awards, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family-friendly benefits including parental leave, and an employee assistance program focusing on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.

Summary and company overview

Are you excited about enterprise security?

Are you passionate about crafting impactful, easy-to-understand stories based on complex technology value propositions?

Join our Product Marketing Team

Product Marketing enables our teams to explain and demonstrate how Akamai Security stays ahead of our customer's needs with innovation. Our team engages analysts, sales and presales teams, partners, customers, and prospects. With value propositions across zero trust, segmentation, network access, compliance and more!

Help grow our value to enterprise security teams

The Director will shape Akamai's enterprise security narrative. You will lead a team of product marketers tasked with developing messaging and positioning. This team will educate sellers, prospects and customers to increase product adoption.

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.

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