Marketing Program Specialist

Do you enjoy making real business impact through transformational programs in marketing?

Do you like managing complex projects that require process & discipline AND agility & excellent team collaboration?

Join Our Marketing Transformation Team

Our Marketing Transformation team's vision is to ensure Marketing's operating model is efficient and empowers marketers to innovate, driving greater growth for Akamai. We do this by connecting our marketing strategy to measurable business outcomes through adaptive planning, customer journey optimization, cross-functional program orchestration, and building marketing capabilities.

Partner with the best

As a Marketing Program Specialist you will coordinate complex strategic initiatives that support our marketing mission-critical goals. You will work with stakeholders across the marketing organization as well as across the enterprise to help execute on our marketing vision, leveraging AI tools to elevate program outcomes and operational efficiency.

As a Marketing Program Specialist, you will be responsible for:

• Coordinating cross-functional marketing programs for our leading security and cloud solutions, such as acquisition integration.
• Supporting strategic and workflow improvement programs that drive growth for the company, including AI-enabled ways of working.
• Utilizing AI tools to streamline program management, synthesize program insights, and elevate overall program outcomes.
• Creating cross-functional alignment and transparency by documenting, organizing, and communicating program strategies, plans, execution, and results to key internal stakeholders.
• Identifying, raising, and tracking risks, dependencies, and strategic opportunities in a timely, clear manner.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have experience coordinating marketing efforts and/or executing demand generation or inbound marketing programs.
• Have a foundational knowledge of marketing disciplines, program or change management, and design thinking practices.
• Demonstrate hands-on familiarity with AI productivity tools to streamline workflows and enhance personal and program efficiency.
• Be curious, with a continuous learning mindset toward applying AI to improve daily outputs.
• Have good interpersonal and organizational skills with an ability to communicate clearly and transparently to a range of stakeholders, including executives.
• Have a proven ability to build relationships, fostering trust, credibility, and cross-functional collaboration.

About 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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