Senior Product Manager - Devices Segmentation

Akamai•Cambridge, MA

3d•$139,300 - $250,700

About The Position

The Senior Product Manager will lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution for Akamai’s Devices Segmentation offerings. This role drives customer engagement and works with engineering and field teams to deliver Zero Trust security solutions, with a focus on IoT/OT environments and enterprise customers. The role owns product-market fit and product direction, including customer capability validation, roadmap definition, and proof-of-concept conversion. It advances device visibility and segmentation through discovery, classification, communication visibility, and granular Zero Trust policies. The Product Manager also shapes go-to-market positioning and messaging, differentiates offerings competitively, and drives integrations across relevant network and security ecosystems. Akamai’s FlexBase program supports employees working at home, in an office, or a combination of both. The company describes its distributed platform as spanning Cloud to Edge and supporting performance, security, content delivery, and AI workloads.

Requirements

At least 5 years of product management experience in IoT/OT security, connected-device segmentation, or industrial network security.
Understanding of IoT, OT, and CPS architectures, device discovery, industrial protocols, and device-level segmentation solutions.
Experience leading enterprise B2B product strategy across converged IT/OT environments and complex sales cycles.
Experience engaging enterprise security and operational technology buyers throughout complex sales cycles.
Ability to translate field feedback into clear product direction in close collaboration with sales engineers and sales teams.

Responsibilities

Own the product roadmap by defining OT/IoT segmentation strategy, priorities, and investments.
Drive product-market fit through customer engagement, capability validation, roadmap definition, and proof-of-concept conversion.
Advance device visibility and segmentation through discovery, classification, communication visibility, and granular Zero Trust policies.
Lead engagement with enterprise buyers, OT/IoT stakeholders, sales engineers, and sales leadership.
Collaborate with engineering, architecture, UX, and QA to define requirements and deliver solutions.
Shape go-to-market strategy through positioning, messaging, value propositions, and competitive differentiation.
Drive ecosystem integrations across switches, NAC, network infrastructure, asset discovery, and security platforms.
Translate field feedback into product direction through collaboration with sales engineers and sales teams.
Partner with sales engineers to accelerate deal conversion.