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.

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.

At F5, our mission is to power and protect every app anywhere. We help organizations deliver secure, high-performing digital experiences across clouds and data centers. With the Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP), F5 brings application security and delivery together so customers can simplify operations, improve resiliency, and stay ahead of evolving threats.

F5 Digital platforms accelerate this mission by modernizing the enterprise systems and experiences that support our customers, partners, and internal teams.

Position Summary:

F5 Digital is seeking a Senior Product Manager to support the Product Launch and Fulfillment organization within the Customer Experience pillar. This role owns product strategy and day-to-day execution for our Licensing and Fulfillment systems responsible for enabling the use of BIG-IP, NGINX and all other F5 products.

The role partners closely with F5 Product Development, Commercial Models, Engineering, Sales and Marketing teams and operates within a broader enterprise ecosystem, including our order to cash systems, enterprise data ecosystem and telemetry and reporting pipelines.

The ideal candidate is an end-to-end product leader with proven experience in bringing together a diverse set of stakeholders to deliver positive customer outcomes in a complex technical environment. This candidate brings an outcome driven and data fueled mindset that balances customer value with business constraints, engineering feasibility and usability.

The candidate should be willing to drive Agile delivery, shaping a prioritized team backlog, translating business needs into well-defined work (Features and User Stories), and ensuring consistent stakeholder engagement through sprint planning, demos, and regular business reviews.

Key Responsibilities:

Product Strategy and Strategic Initiatives:

• Define and communicate a clear product vision and roadmap that aligns License and Fulfillment capabilities to broader business strategy and company Promises and Missions.

• Conduct discovery to validate value, usability, feasibility, and business viability risks before committing to build, ensuring the team works on the right problems.

• Influence without authority across senior stakeholders and cross-functional leaders to build alignment on strategic priorities and trade-offs.

• Contribute to business case development for significant investments.

• Represent the product perspective in executive and leadership forums, communicating strategy, progress, and trade-offs with clarity and confidence.

Backlog Ownership and Prioritization:

• Translate business requirements into Epics, Features, and User stories with clear Acceptance Criteria.

• Prioritize work based on business value, revenue impact, urgency, technical dependencies, and risk.

Agile Delivery and Execution:

• Lead sprint planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and execution cadence with engineering and stakeholders.

• Facilitate biweekly demos to validate outcomes, gather feedback, and adjust priorities.

• Maintain delivery predictability by managing scope and surfacing risks early.

Stakeholder Management and Alignment:

• Serve as the primary product point of contact for License and Fulfillment teams

• Partner with Commercial Models, Product Development and Engineering teams to ensure solutions align with business needs.

• Collaborate with other Product Managers to align Fulfillment and Licensing priorities within quarterly plans and enterprise roadmaps.

Metrics, QBRs, and Delivery Transparency

• Maintain accurate backlog, sprint, and release reporting in Azure DevOps or Jira.

• Support Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) with delivery insights such as points planned vs completed, throughput trends, predictability, and release outcomes.

• Use metrics and feedback loops to continuously improve execution, quality, and stakeholder trust.

AI/ML Enablement Mindset

• Apply familiarity with AI/ML concepts to identify opportunities for automation and intelligence within License and Fulfillment as well as our product telemetry pipeline.

• Partner with data, analytics, and architecture teams to define measurable outcomes and support responsible AI adoption.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in Technical Product Management, Product Ownership, Business Systems, or IT delivery roles for enterprise environments. Proficiency with Azure DevOps or Jira for backlog, sprint, and release management.

• Proven Agile delivery leadership, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, stakeholder demos, and iterative delivery.

• Proficiency with Azure DevOps or Jira for backlog, sprint, and release management.

• Strong communication and facilitation skills with the ability to drive alignment across business and technology teams.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting the GTM process and Quote to Cash systems

• Familiarity with enterprise integrations across CRM, ERP, PIM/PDH and analytics platforms.

• Experience in scaled Agile environments with multiple scrum teams and shared dependencies.

• Agile or Product Management certifications are a plus.

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: $149,600.00 - $224,400.00

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.