Sr Director, Product Management

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.

Join us in driving innovation at F5 within the BIG-IP product group. If you're a visionary leader passionate about product development, with a knack for creative problem-solving, technical expertise, and strategic thinking, this role is tailor-made for you. This influential position offers you the opportunity to lead a dynamic product management team, comprising geographically dispersed product owners, in developing and launching our next-generation products. These groundbreaking solutions are poised to revolutionize the application security and delivery market, with a special focus on AI workloads and infrastructure.

As the leader of this team, you'll be responsible for:

• Formulating hardware/systems product strategy and roadmap aligned with F5's mission and business objectives.

• Establishing long-term business goals, crafting annual product plans, and defining business priorities.

• Prioritizing product investments, outlining the roadmap, and sequencing execution transparently and rigorously.

• Conducting primary customer research to gather market insights that inform product direction.

• Collaborating closely with sales to identify growth opportunities and implement product and go-to-market initiatives to achieve annual targets.

• Cultivating a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative team culture focused on mutual success.

• Coaching, mentoring, and empowering a talented team of product managers and owners.

• Representing the product area in quarterly business reviews, presenting the business's current state and outlining initiatives to drive growth.

• Working closely with engineering leaders to align execution priorities with goals and provide business context and trade-offs to optimize product delivery.

• Engaging with customers to drive product adoption.

• Collaborating closely with cross-functional stakeholders in marketing, support, manufacturing, and commercial models to articulate dependencies and ensure aligned execution.

Skills, Experience, and Qualifications:

• Background and leadership experience in appliance hardware and modular systems for data centers, including consideration of customer value proposition, technology innovation, and margin.

• Proven track record of launching a full hardware product portfolio widely adopted in the industry.

• 10+ years of experience in product management or engineering.

• Passion for leadership and fostering the career development of individuals.

• Ownership mindset with a proactive approach to challenges and a focus on delivering impact.

• Preference for data-driven decision-making incorporating analytical rigor and managerial judgment.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across engineering, product management, release management, and support.

• Ability to navigate between strategy, technical depth, and execution in product delivery.

• Strong understanding of networking, application delivery, and application security concepts.

• "Can do" attitude and a dedication to ensuring the success of customers and colleagues.

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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 annual U.S. base pay range for this position is: $228,000.00 - $342,000.00

F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions, as well as to reflect F5's differing products, industries, and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.

You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. More details about F5's benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits. F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.

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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 accommodations@f5.com.