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Principal Product Manager – Distributed Cloud (Application Delivery)

Position Summary

This Principal Product Manager role is responsible for leading the design, development, and evolution of Application Delivery services powering F5 Distributed Cloud. This platform enables enterprises to deliver, scale, and operate Web, API and AI applications globally across edge and hybrid/multicloud environments.

Responsible for guiding, augmenting and extending the reach of F5 Distributed Cloud’s Application Delivery offerings. The role requires an individual with strong leadership, partnering and analytical abilities, who can build a shared vision for F5’s Distributed Cloud direction; deliver Proxy, CDN, and API Gateway products on the F5 Distributed Cloud SaaS platform; help to build products from existing ideas; and help to develop new insights based on industry experience and contact with customers, prospects and partners.

This is a highly strategic and hands-on role requiring deep expertise in SaaS platforms, networking and application delivery services, with strong influence across product, security, engineering, marketing, sales and other go-to-market teams.

Primary Responsibilities

• Own all product management end-to-end of F5 Distributed Cloud Application Delivery offerings

• Manage the product launch process delivering technical decision maker and business decision maker content, envision a solution demo of new capabilities, price the new capabilities, and drive sales enablement efforts including making product orderable on the SaaS platform.

• Deliver web content, whitepapers, and demonstrations to drive customer adoption, and ensure technical marketing alignment with key partners

• Work with key decision makers in marketing and sales to ensure that the product is accurately communicated to the market

• Define technical roadmap and influence product direction for F5 Distributed Cloud’s Application Delivery capabilities

• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, security, engineering, marketing, sales and other go-to-market teams.

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior product managers

• Establish and uphold best practices in design, development, and go-to-market

• Independently identify risks, drive solutions, and communicate effectively with stakeholders

Required Qualifications

• Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; MBA desirable

• At least 5 years of experience in product management in the cloud networking and security industry

• At least 5 years’ of Application Delivery and Security product management.

• Outstanding listener, great presenter, terrific interpersonal and communication skills with strong ability to influence people at all levels and in various functions

• Strong awareness of technology trends and potential influence on F5’s business

• Strong teaming skills: positive teammate, good team builder, experience to bring together diverse views.

• Demonstrated ability to think strategically and analytically

• Ability to lead in a constantly evolving environment, manage multiple priorities and ambiguity

• Ability to converse with technical and business personnel fluently

• Experience developing relationships with suppliers and co-marketing partners highly desirable

• Demonstrated ability to meet or beat assigned targets and delivery dates consistently

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven deep expertise with modern L7 data plane technologies

• Prior experience working on Proxy/Load Balancer, CDN, API Gateway platforms

• Experience with globally distributed edge systems

• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures

• Strong experience in networking and working with networking-focused companies or products

Physical Demands and Work Environment

• Duties are performed in a normal office environment while sitting at a desk or computer table

• Duties require the ability to utilize a computer, communicate over the telephone, and read printed material

• Duties may require being on call periodically or working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends)

• Duties may require the ability to travel via automobile or airplane, approximately 10% of the time spent traveling

This role is part of the F5 Distributed Cloud product management team, building the future of Web, API and AI application delivery and infrastructure.

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 base pay for this position is: $213,100.00 - $319,700.00

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.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from 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 accommodations@f5.com.