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.

Director, Product Management, AI Security
 

JOB DESCRIPTION
 

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 everyone can thrive.

We help our customers to embrace the productivity benefits and enhanced end user experiences that generative AI enables. Further, it is our mission to ensure that they can do so with efficiency and security. F5 products are already strategically located in application delivery environments, from BIG-IP load balancers to NGINX ingress controllers for Kubernetes. All in conjunction with our market-leading application security products. We now seek a product leader who can deliver a product to meet the AI security needs of our customers
 

Position Summary
 

This is a fast-paced, high-visibility, high-stakes role for an experienced product leader seeking a career defining opportunity to take AI security solutions to market and establish F5 as a leader in this rapidly growing market.

We're looking for an experienced Product Leader with AI/ML expertise who has a proven track record of owning and being the face of product offerings from business case to product requirements definition to launch. Key to this is past success in finding product-market fit with emerging technologies and establishing meaningful power metrics to measure success. This is a player-coach role with significant growth opportunities.

This position will

• Lead the creation of new product offerings that provide clear and compelling value to Enterprises deploying and operating AI applications.
• Own the business of the product line and be accountable for its success.
• Deeply understand customers’ requirements by leading customer meetings, attending industry events, and continuously testing vision and value to establish, test, and adjust for compelling product market fit.
• Be the face of the new product offerings at customer, community, and industry events as a presenter and speaker able to evangelize vision and value.
• Lead a small team of (technical) product managers while partnering with technical and GTM leaders on a shared product strategy.
• Maintain a deep understanding of the market landscape from start-ups to large incumbents.
• Define and articulate problem statements tied to market opportunities to inform product requirements and priorities.
• Work collaboratively with Engineering and Architecture counterparts to deliver product offerings and roadmaps with velocity.
• Collaborate with sales, marketing and other functional teams to drive GTM activities including strategy, pricing, content creation, sales enablement, customer outreach, and continuously measuring against KPIs for success.
• Engage with customers to drive adoption of cloud-based, SaaS offerings and bring actionable insights to the business.
• Establish clear and measurable metrics and KPIs for transparent tracking of what success means now and into the future.
   

Personal attributes

• Customer obsessed.
• A love for presenting and articulating a compelling vision.
• Endlessly inquisitive towards the root problem that needs to be solved.
• Can-do attitude with passion to make customers, team members, and colleagues successful.
• Thrives on purpose and holds a deep desire to own a mission - an owner.
• Natural inclinations to tackle challenges head on and make a positive impact.
• Bias towards data driven decision making that incorporates analytical rigor and creative thinking.
• Leads by example; with honesty, empathy, and transparency.
• Does not settle for the status quo; constantly looking to raise the bar and set new standards. 
   

Desirable skills, experience and qualifications

• Demonstrated success bringing a new product to market from inception to quantifiable success.
• Deep understanding of Enterprise requirements for deploying and operating AI, ML, and/or NLP applications.
• Demonstrated success in defining, deploying, and realizing (or on the path towards it) product-market fit for an AI, ML, and/or NLP product offering focused on infrastructure software or network capabilities.
• Deep knowledge of the AI landscape, specifically for infrastructure software and network capabilities, including the emerging use of LLMs.
• Demonstrated success in defining and deploying SaaS applications to quantifiable success.
• Experience working with industry analysts, establishing and nurturing those relationships.
• Effective stakeholder management with a talent for leading with influence, and a preference for achieving consensus in decision making.
• Ability to straddle across strategy, technical depth, and execution in product delivery.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Solid understanding of modern application architectures, web applications and APIs.
• Proven track record as a Product Manager with a deep understanding of the discipline of product management and a track record of demonstrating and leading excellence and acting as a true partner to Engineering in the practice of developing B2B products.
• Understanding of application security needs and technologies: WAF, WAAP, authN/Z solutions.
• Minimum 8-years of experience in product management with prior people management experience
• Minimum of a bachelor's degree in engineering. A graduate degree in science, engineering or business is a plus or equivalent qualifications/experience.

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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.

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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