Vice President, Chief of Staff to the CEO

Are you passionate about driving strategic momentum for a global platform that powers and protects life online?

Do you excel at serving as a strategic force multiplier, bridging leadership vision with front-line operational excellence?

Join our Team!

Akamai powers and protects life online. Every day, the world's leading organizations rely on Akamai to build, run, deliver, and secure their applications, workloads, and digital experiences across our global cloud and edge platform.

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We are seeking a highly strategic and organized Chief of Staff to the CEO. In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for orchestrating the Office of the CEO and managing a dedicated team within the office. The Chief of Staff ensures executive productivity, strategic alignment, and the seamless execution of company priorities. This position is primarily remote, yet requires a small percentage of time to be spent at our company headquarters in Cambridge,

As the Vice President Chief of Staff, you will be responsible for:

• Team Management: Lead and mentor a high-performing Office of the CEO team, fostering proactive collaboration and operational excellence.
• Strategic Operations: Manage the CEO's dynamic operating calendar to ensure strategic alignment during mission-critical periods (Earnings, Board meetings, key external events). Oversee centralized scheduling for high-profile customer and partner briefings. Track annual Mission Critical Goal (MCG) attainment.
• Global Engagement & Executive Travel: Orchestrate the CEO's global engagement strategy, including all aspects of worldwide travel logistics, to ensure frictionless engagement in critical business activities. Optimize executive presence by curating high-impact agendas and pre-briefings for key customer, investor, and M&A opportunities. 
• Board Governance Support: Collaborate with Akamai's General Counsel to plan and Board of Director agendas, Director requests, and deliverable schedules. Plan and execute quarterly Board sessions (including a mix of on-site and virtual meetings). Deliver high-quality Board Memos, manage agendas for the Operating Committee (OC) and executive staff while driving synchronization on key cross-functional priorities like Cloud, Cyber Security, AI, and Go-to-Market strategies. 
• Corporate Development: Partner with Corporate Development and Investor Relations to prepare the CEO for critical interactions with bankers and investors. Streamline narratives to prepare quarterly earnings scripts.
• Strategic Communications: Align with Marketing and business leaders to deliver a clear Akamai vision. Develop high-impact scripts, presentations, and digital content for internal Town Halls, leadership calls and manage requests for keynote appearances. Orchestrate quarterly All Hands and Leadership calls, technical demos, financial communications, as well as maintain the CEO’s external voice on LinkedIn.
• AI Innovation & Transformation: Master AI tools to improve output. Identify and implement AI-driven solutions to automate
  routine tasks (written, graphic, or video content development) and ensure all AI usage aligns with Akamai’s brand, security, and ethics guidelines.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Bring 15+ years of experience managing strategic initiatives and operations with a Bachelor's degree in Business, Communications, or equivalent experience.
• Have proven managerial experience with a track record of successfully leading and managing a high-performing team.
• Be an exceptional communications (written and verbal) and organizational skills, with the ability to produce high-level talk tracks,
  scripts, and Board memos.
• Have extensive experience working in a fast-moving and change oriented high-tech corporation, understanding the key providers and
  competitors within Akamai's lines of business as well as having knowledge of foundational concepts related to: technical platforms, cloud computing, cybersecurity and AI infrastructure.
• Have demonstrated capability to orchestrate complex global travel, executive scheduling, and geopolitical navigation.

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 glob