Job Description

Would you enjoy impacting the digital experiences for users worldwide?

Do you relish the prospect of working with cutting-edge technology?

Join our Professional Services team

Our customer-centric team builds innovative and tailored solutions for our customers to help them achieve their vision. We collaborate to understand customer needs and to deliver results and possibilities for their growth and success. We build trusted relationships through clear communication, honesty and listening to our customers.

Partner with the best

As an Engagement Manager, you will maximize value, retention and growth throughout the customer life cycle. You will help to build, innovate and evolve customers' security, performance or media delivery strategies. Delivering innovative outcomes for customers through efficient relationships, business acumen, and operational focus.

As an Engagement Manager you will be responsible for:

• Being the strategist and technical advisor to architects and technology leaders of Akamai's premium customers
• Partnering with Sales and pre-sales to make recommendations that expand adoption of Akamai's products and services
• Maximizing customer satisfaction, retention, and growth based on the customer's needs and business requirements
• Being the central point of contact for the customer and leading account team to deliver customer success
• Responding to escalations when various program management issues arise and operational improvements to mitigate future risks
• Ensuring customer success by understanding customer's requirements, leveraging best practices and offering services that meet customer needs

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Be a customer advocate passionate about delivering technical solutions
• Demonstrate experience in a customer-facing role within the Information Technology industry
• Show understanding of internet network technologies, application and web security, web performance or media related technologies
• Demonstrate communication skills and an ability to build trusting relationships with customers across various levels
• Be a team player, able to collaborate, prioritize, and solve problems in a fast-changing environment
• Demonstrate experience in Program or Project management in a cross-functional and technical team

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!

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