Engagement Manager II

Are you excited by the prospect of creatively solving problems and delivering exceptional customer service?

Would the opportunity to become a trusted advisor to Fortune 100 financial institutions excite you?

Join our Advanced Technology Group

Our team helps to accelerate and protect the digital experiences of the world's major financial institutions providing advisory and leadership. As the Financial Services team we build loyalty and growth through relationships and understanding of customers' needs.

Partner with the best

You will maximize our customers' value in Akamai with program and/or project management strategic thinking technical acumen pre-sales and leadership. You will move our customers' key initiatives from concept to implementation solving problems and delivering exceptional satisfaction.

As an Engagement Manager II you will be responsible for:

• Owning program and/or project management and playing a trusted advisor that customers get the most value out of solutions.
• Being an expert and technical advisor to architect and manage the web performance and security solutions.
• Defining an account strategy establishing key relationships and building and maintaining a project pipeline.
• Leading a cross functional team and developing a culture of excellence to empower and encourage team synergy.
• Partnering with sales and pre-sales to help expand the use of services and solutions.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 5 years of experience and a Bachelor's in Computer Science MIS Engineering or its equivalent
• Demonstrate experience in a customer-facing role and an understanding of the consulting complex web content delivery and security strategies to ensure customer success
• Have experience managing and delivering large technical customer projects successfully
• Have experience in web development technologies methodologies and languages such as HTTP/S DNS TCP WebSockets APIs LLMs MCPs etc.
• Have excellent organizational communication and presentation skills and articulate technical information in a easy to understand manner
• Be a team player with an ability to work independently and as part of a remote team

Build your career at Akamai

Our ability to shape digital life today relies on developing exceptional people like you. The kind that can turn impossible into possible. We’re doing everything we can to make Akamai a great place to work. A place where you can learn grow and have a meaningful impact.

With our company moving so fast it’s important that you’re able to build new skills explore new roles and try out different opportunities. There are so many different ways to build your career at Akamai and we want to support you as much as possible. We have all kinds of development opportunities available from programs such as GROW and Mentoring to internal events like the APEX Expo and tools such as Linkedin Learning all to help you expand your knowledge and experience here.

Learn more

Not sure if this job is the right match for you or want to learn more about the job before you apply? Schedule a 15-minute exploratory call with the Recruiter and they would be happy to share more details.

Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $119600 - $215400/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including but not limited to relevant work experience skills certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. 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 401K savings plan company holidays vacation (in the form of PTO) sick time family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.

What We Do

At Akamai we make life better for billions of people billions of times a day. Every moment billions of people all over the world are using the internet to shop play games look after finances learn remotely share videos connect across the world and so much more. These life-shaping digital experiences wouldn’t be possible without Akamai. We power and protect life online. It’s an extraordinary mission and our global teams achieve it by solving the toughest challenges and turning the impossible into the possible. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build deliver and secure their digital experiences. Thanks to our world’s most distributed platform for cloud computing security and content delivery. Akamai keeps applications and experiences closer and threats farther away. Devoted determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation. Do you want to power and protect life online by solving the toughest challenges with us? Be part of an amazing team!

Why Work With Us

Our people are devoted determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology. We find solutions through persistence and push ground-breaking ideas forward with urgency and courage. This creates an environment where we harness creative energy and drive innovation. We are inclusive and diverse and we love to collaborate across the world.

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