At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.

　　Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

　　The Product Management team in F5 Technology Services is responsible for creating and driving the strategy for how we serve vital functions within F5, such as sales, marketing, finance, legal and HR. The mission of Technology Services is to create a more responsive, nimble and agile F5, supporting internal and external customer needs.

　　As Product Manager, you will bring thought leadership to your area and stakeholder management skills. You will work collaboratively, driving strategic alignment across the organization, and have the ability to communicate effectively to both internal and external audiences. You will develop roadmaps and requirements using a balance of future vision, near-term opportunities, user requirements, business insight, and management of day-to-day product issues. The position is dynamic, and you should be comfortable with ambiguity, a fast-pace and frequent context switching. Areas of assignment are flexible to accommodate evolving business needs.

　　What You'll Do

　　Execute upon a coherent, results-focused vision and roadmap with your team based on user discovery, data and financial analysis, stakeholder discussions, F5 business dynamics and industry trends

　　Evangelize and gain alignment on your vision and road map with senior stakeholders across the company - up to and including the VP and Director level - and manage their expectations with clear, consistent communication

　　Rally delivery teams around clear, stable priorities focused on product goals and user needs, driving timely tradeoff decisions when needed

　　Build business cases for requested initiatives, articulating quantifiable business outcomes and return on investment and success metrics

　　Focus your team's efforts on driving concrete business benefit - ensuring user experience is solid, driving successful adoption of solutions with end users, and tracking usage and performance to gauge business impact

　　Work constructively as a member of the broader product management team to rationalize priorities across workstreams

　　Responsible for upholding F5's Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.

　　Performs other related duties as assigned.

　　The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

　　What You'll Bring

　　Extensive experience as a product manager in an Agile development environment

　　Proven ability to execute upon a coherent product strategy for a complex or highly technical functional area

　　Track record of crafting and driving product results, ideally for products with high visibility and/or significant financial impact

　　Strong customer orientation with the ability to listen, prioritize and champion key initiatives and projects for product development

　　Strong data orientation with proven track record of digging deep into data and using it to drive decisions

　　Strong financial acumen, including ability to structure basic business cases

　　Strong written and oral communication skills, with ability to articulate complex technology and business opportunities clearly

　　Proven ability to construct professional and productive relationships, especially with more senior colleagues, even when there's a need to deliver tough messages

　　Strong leadership, negotiation & persuasion skills

　　Ability to learn our products quickly

　　Qualifications

　　4+ years of experience in Agile software product management, preferably on solutions supporting sales, finance, or other internal support functions

　　5+ years of experience working with a diverse set of partners such as sales, engineering, legal, customer success, data science, marketing etc.

　　Bachelor's degree in business, computer science or related field, MBA a plus

　　The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

　　Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Yello/Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).

　　Equal Employment Opportunity

　　It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting [email protected].