The Director of Product Management for BIG-IP Security at F5 will lead a team responsible for defining the strategic direction of the BIG-IP Access portfolio, including SASE, ZTNA, Cryptography, and SSL-VPN. This role requires a strong leader with deep security product expertise, excellent business judgment, and the ability to influence across functions to deliver market-fit solutions.
What You'll Do
- Independently lead large projects (individual or with cross-functional team) to develop a factbase and set of recommendations to provide into a strategic question or business problem (e.g., new product entry)
- Apply an 80/20 approach to create structured models leveraging data from across sources (e.g., Capital IQ, 3rd party analyst insights, survey data) for 1 & 5 year financial planning
- Use appropriate storylining and storytelling techniques to communicate recommendations or insights to an identified audience (e.g., the Board, the CEO or Executive Leadership team, Product Management leadership, or broad set of employees)
- Apply business acumen to synthesize findings to develop strategic recommendations
- Establish external relationships with industry analysts to build F5 credibility
- Support and coach Product Management leaders to test prospective F5 strategies
- Influence without authority to ensure strategic recommendations are executed by the business
- Proactively identify and manage impact of insights to broader organization, including development and presentation of a strategic point of view, goals, and proposed outcomes
- Facilitate large scale meetings and workshops, including preparation and driving tangible outcomes
- Assist senior business executives in framing, evaluating, and executing against strategic options
- Direct and manage team members to successfully complete product line/program strategy, establish measurable goals and objectives that meet strategic goals
- Formulate innovative use of F5 product functions and open-source software tools to solve operational problems faced by F5 Customers
- Develop timely market insights including competitive analysis and user insights for informed decision making to drive product strategies and ensure product market fit
- Participate in product innovation projects and proof-of-concept initiatives, including research of product requirements to facilitate proactive maintenance and/or outage mitigation
- Partner with marketing, engineering, services, sales, and customers to drive product direction for F5’s products, including Buy, Build, or Partner solution delivery
What We're Looking For
- BA/BS degree in relevant field required
- 5+ years of experience in product management or equivalent is a must
- Experience in Product Management for Security products (e.g., WAF, ZTNA, SASE, Cryptography)
- Strong customer orientation with the ability to listen, organize and champion key initiatives and projects for product/solution development
- Experience identifying, evaluating and analyzing critical strategic questions and business situations
- Outstanding record of sound business judgment and advice to senior leaders
- Highly focused on execution and delivering high-quality, synthesized analysis
- Effectively manage and prioritize multiple work streams through collaboration within Business Strategy team and across the organization
- Demonstrates leadership and the ability to influence by initiating partnerships that promote organizational objectives and change
- Strong written and oral communication skills, with ability to articulate complex technology clearly
- Flexible, self-motivated, collaborative
- Ability to work independently or lead others on projects
- Excellent leadership, interpersonal & persuasion skills
Nice to Have
- MBA a plus
Technical Stack
- Excel
- Powerpoint
- Think-cell
- 6-page narratives
- Deep structured interviews
Team & Environment
- Team size: team driving BIG-IP Access
- Structure: cross-functional across the broader BIG-IP team and product management team
- Reports to: Product Management leadership
Benefits & Compensation
- Incentive compensation
- Bonus
- Restricted stock units
- Health benefits
- Relocation assistance (implied by broad salary ranges across geographic locations)
- Training and development
- Flexible work arrangements (implied by hybrid/onsite context)
- Equal Employment Opportunity and reasonable accommodations
Work Mode
- Type: hybrid
- Flexibility: F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions
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].
