Senior Technical Project Manager

Akamai Technologies
Canada

Who this role is best for

Aimed at experienced IT professionals with a customer-facing background who excel in technical project management and strategic consulting.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 8+ years of experience in customer-facing IT project management roles
    — “Have 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent”
  • Individuals skilled in translating complex technical concepts into clear business strategies
    — “Have excellent communication and presentation skills to articulate highly technical information in a clear and comprehensive manner”
  • Professionals who thrive in collaborative, cross-functional environments with Fortune 500 clients
    — “You'll be an end-to-end trusted advisor to our customers. Managing their engagement and technical solutions with our platform.”

Things to consider

  • The role demands a strong commitment to long-term client relationships and integration strategy
    — “develop a long-term customer web performance and security strategy”
  • Candidates should be prepared for a hybrid work arrangement with flexibility for in-office collaboration
    — “It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience in managing large-scale web integration projects with global clients
    — “managing and delivering large technical customer projects successfully”
  • Showcase your proficiency in web technologies like HTTP or DNS in your resume and interviews
    — “experience in project management methodologies, web technologies, and languages such as HTTP or DNS”
  • Emphasize your track record of delivering high-quality service and fostering customer relationships
    — “deliver high-quality service and foster customer relationships”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • managing large technical customer projects
  • developing long-term customer strategies
Typical background
8+ years of relevant experienceBachelor's degree or equivalent

Skills & requirements

Required

Project ManagementCustomer Relationship ManagementTechnical Consulting

Preferred

Thought LeadershipConsulting

Stack & domain

Project Management MethodologiesWeb TechnologiesHTTPDNSCommunicationPresentationLeadershipProblem-solvingAttention To DetailITCustomer Support

About the role

Original posting from Akamai Technologies

Would you like to work with cutting-edge technology?

Would providing consultancy to global brands excite you?

Join our prestigious Professional Services team

Our Professional Services team helps to accelerate and protect the websites and digital experiences of some of the worlds largest Fortune 500 clients by bringing them onto the Akamai platform. As a customer-facing team, we provide thought leadership, consulting, and technical support through designing high-quality web solutions and customer advocacy.

Partner with the best

You'll be an end-to-end trusted advisor to our customers. Managing their engagement and technical solutions with our platform. Build close relationships with customers and creatively tackle some of the biggest challenges on the internet.

As a Senior Technical Project Manager, you will be responsible for:

Collaborating closely with an integrated accounts team to evaluate customer web architecture, delivering the best integration solutionEnsuring success through best practice guidance and to develop a long-term customer web performance and security strategyPartnering with the business to review and ensure integration efficiency, deliver high-quality service and foster customer relationshipsParticipating on internal projects to contribute to best practices, improving our methodology and quality of integrationDo what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

Have 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalentDemonstrate experience in a customer-facing role within the Information Technology industryShow experience of managing and delivering large technical customer projects successfullyHave experience in project management methodologies, web technologies, and languages such as HTTP or DNSHave excellent communication and presentation skills to articulate highly technical information in a clear and comprehensive mannerAbout 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.

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Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from 109,900 - 197,700 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.

Source: Akamai Technologies careers

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