Director, Field CTO
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Leading Cloud Computing engagement efforts in APJ region as a key voice for Akamai's Cloud Compute story. Partnering with sales teams to relay customer feedback into product development.
Responsibilities:
- Lead our efforts to engage with the Cloud Computing Community in the APJ region
- Be a key voice in telling our comprehensive Cloud Compute story to customers
- Partner with our sales teams to bring the voice of the customer back into the Product Development organization
- Operate as a focal point for compute products within the region and assisting with Sales efforts
- Develop a community of customers across the region that will provide feedback on Product Roadmaps and assist decisions
- Lead specific engagements with journalists and Industry Analysts in support of the PR/AR teams
- Speak at events to discuss both industry trends within cloud computing as well as the Akamai Product Portfolio
- Educate the region's customer facing organizations on emerging trends within the Cloud Computing space
Requirements:
- Have 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, another related field or its equivalent
- Enjoy working cross-functionally with field teams, customers and partners to drive product strategy
- Be an expert in Cloud computing and emerging Edge Computing models
- Cloud & Edge Security: Knowledge of securing diverse workloads across hybrid and edge environments
- Next-Gen AI: Understanding of how AI inference leverages the edge for performance
- Have experience evangelizing and driving technology initiatives in the wider cloud computing community
- Possess an executive presence and the ability to manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Have experience building, managing and developing high performing teams
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