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Position Summary
The Sr Manager, Consulting for XC, develops and maintains a technically qualified team of Technical Account Managers and Support engineers whose mission is to support the existing customers, drive upsell opportunities and help in setting up well-defined processes. This is a leadership opportunity responsible for successful delivery of technical projects and supporting F5 XC customers globally.
Primary Responsibilities:
Management Responsibility: Employee management across APCJ including but not limited to interviewing and hiring candidates for open positions, onboarding, establishing goals, assigning or delegating work, providing on-the-job training, giving guidance to staff, conducting performance evaluations, approving paid time-off (PTO), developing performance improvement plans, decision making and taking disciplinary action.
Defining and engineering the support and consulting team engagement processes.
Liaise with SOC, Product Management and Professional Services Teams to support customers.
Taking ownership of critical incidents, coordinating and establishing effective communication between stakeholders
Taking accountability for service delivery performance, meeting customer expectation and driving future demand
Identify new technical skills required to support the delivery needs of customer engagements.
Achieve or exceed quarterly customer satisfaction, profit margins, and revenue goals.
Review and evaluate team members professional performance (F5 values, work items, professionalism, work ethics, F5 customer satisfaction)
Uphold F5's Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.
Perform other related duties as assigned.
Skills and Abilities
Able to lead and mentor both physical and virtual teams.
Outstanding customer-facing skills
Lead incident investigations of anomalies and document results
Operational ability in a diverse, large-scale environments
Strong organizational skills
Ability to manage and prioritize tasks efficiently.
Strong resource planning and problem-solving skills
Strong English spoken and written language skill essential.
Ability to map and translate customer needs to actions for internal F5 teams.
Additional skill which would be a plus
Understanding of technologies such as cloud services and technologies, network architecture, application availability and security
Qualifications
Minimum 5 years managing professional services, customer success or support team.
Minimum 5 years providing consulting both onsite and remote consulting services.
Bachelor's and/or Master's Degree in information technology related field
Industry certifications such as CISA, CISSP, GIAC, PMP a plus.
Physical Demands and Work Environment
This role requires availability outside normal business hours to align with the global team or to respond to critical security events.
Some travel may be required.
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.
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].