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.

Come be part of the innovation we are driving at F5 in the BIG-IP product group. If you are an exemplary leader who is passionate about building products, by bringing creative problem solving, technical acumen and strategic thinking, this role is right for you. This is a high visible and impactful role, you will lead a product management team consisting of a geographically distributed team of product owners to build and bring to market our next generation of infrastructure and operating system that are poised to revolutionize the application security and delivery market.

This position will lead a team of product managers to:

• Set long term business goals, build annual product plans and delineate business priorities.
• Formulate product strategy and roadmap that delivers on F5 mission and business objectives.
• Prioritize product investments, frame roadmap and set the execution sequence with transparency and rigor.
• Engage in primary customer research to bring the market insights and that define product direction.
• Work closely with sales to identify growth opportunities and execute product and GTM initiatives to drive execution against annual plan.
• Represent product are in quarterly product business reviews, articulating the state of the business and framing initiatives to drive growth.
• Work closely with engineering leaders to define execution priorities against goals and support with business context and trade offs to optimize product delivery against business objectives.
• Engage with customers to drive adoption of products.

• Collaborate closely with cross functional stakeholders across marketing, support, manufacturing and commercial models to clearly articulate dependencies and enable aligned execution.

   

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Define quarterly business plans, working closely with General Manager and drive to achieve business results.
• Set product vision and direction and articulate the strategy, in line with broader F5 strategy.
• Lead the team in building product roadmap and drive product execution to deliver differentiated products.
• Collaborate with cross functional leaders to deliver on product goals and fiscal objectives.
• Attract and grow industry leading product management talent that excels in data driven decision making, business orientation, communication excellence and technical acumen.
• Represent product area in sales and customer facing forums, including conferences and industry events.
• Build a diverse, highly inclusive and collaborative team that takes pride in making each other successful.

• Coach, mentor and enable the success of a highly talented team of product managers and product owners.

   

REQUIRED SKILLS EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:

Can do attitude and passion to make customers and colleagues successful.

Background and experience in systems and hardware.

Leadership of appliance hardware and modular systems for data centers including consideration of customer value proposition, technology innovation and margin.

Passion for leading team