Principal Product Manager

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. 
 

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Position Summary

The Principal Product Manager plays a pivotal role in product development for F5 Distributed Cloud (XC) – App Delivery strategies. This position requires an in-depth understanding of market dynamics in Application Delivery & Security, Application Performance, Public Cloud and SaaS platforms as well as strong leadership, partnering and analytical abilities, to help build a shared vision and execute to establish a market leading position.

Primary Responsibilities

Product Delivery:

• Drive end-to-end product management activities for F5XC App Connect
• Build compelling technical marketing content to drive product awareness including building reference architectures and customer case studies
• Deliver web content, whitepapers, and demonstrations to drive customer adoption, and ensure technical marketing alignment with key partners
• Ensure accountability for product success and present data-backed findings during business reviews and QBRs

Customer Engagement & Feedback:

• Engage with customers to understand their business goals, constraints, and requirements
• Prioritize feature enhancements based on customer feedback and business value
• Utilize the Digital Adoption Platform to identify areas of improvement, increase revenue and reduce churn

Market Analysis:

• Position F5XC App Connect with a competitive edge in the market
• Validate market demand based on customer usage
• Conduct in-depth research to stay abreast of developments in Application Delivery

 Team Collaboration:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to make informed decisions on product backlog prioritization
• Foster strong relationships with engineering, sales, marketing, and customer support teams
• Work with technical teams to ensure seamless product rollouts
• Work with key decision makers in marketing and sales to ensure smoot product delivery to customers

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Technical Skills:

• Proficient with L4/L7 load balancing & proxy technologies and protocols
• Well versed with core networking technologies such as BGP, VPNs and tunneling, routing, NAT, etc.
• Proficient with core Public Cloud networking services – especially with AWS, Azure and GCP

Stakeholder Management:

• Demonstrate strong leadership, negotiation, and persuasion capabilities
• Effectively manage and navigate expectations from diverse stakeholder groups
• Uphold a data-driven approach amidst a fast-paced, changing environment

Analytical Skills:

• Ability to generate data-driven reports and transform complex data into actionable insights
• Proven skills in data analytics and making data-backed decisions
• Strong awareness of technology trends and potential influence on F5’s business

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in a relevant field
• 6+ years in technical product management or a related domain
• 3+ years of product management in Application Delivery/Load Balancing
• Experience developing relationships with suppliers and co-marketing partners highly desirable. 

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.

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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.