Principal Product Manager

About this role

Job Description
Are you eager to shape the multi-year strategy for cloud APIs, developer tools, and infrastructure integrations?
Are you looking to bridge the gap between deep technical architecture and product strategy?
Join our team
Akamai Cloud Technology Group empowers customers to build scalable distributed applications across a simple cloud platform. Our Compute Foundations team creates core primitives, APIs, systems, and developer tools. We power compute interactions across the Akamai Cloud platform.


Partner with the best
You will lead the vision, strategy, and execution for how developers interact with Akamai Cloud. In this role, you will evolve enterprise developer tools and pioneer AI-first workflows.


As a Principal Product Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Crafting and driving the multi-year vision, product strategy, and execution roadmap for Akamai Cloud developer tooling
• Modernizing brownfield enterprise API paths while elevating API quality, consistency, and platform performance
• Pioneering next-generation developer interfaces for AI agents and LLM-driven workflows using Model Context Protocol endpoints
• Collaborating with engineering on API design guidelines, OpenAPI standards, schema governance, and API Gateway capabilities
• Overseeing product development for official developer tools including CLI, SDKs, and Infrastructure as Code providers
• Influencing strategy of streamlining and unifying the Developer Experience across multiple platforms to ensure consistency and efficiency.

Do What You Love
To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 15 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or its equivalent
• Have experience designing REST, gRPC, or GraphQL APIs and delivering developer tools like CLIs, SDKs, and Terraform providers
• Possess solid expertise in API Gateway architectures, traffic management, and authentication protocols such as OA...