Program Manager, Adaptive Application Go-To-Market at F5 Networks in Seattle, Washington

Job Description:

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!

Program Manager – Adaptive Applications GTM

F5 is in growth mode! Our customers continue to refine how to best serve their customers and nurture them digitally through applications. Our vision is that applications, like living organisms, will naturally adapt based on the environment, becoming an Adaptive Application. F5 is bringing this adaptive application vision to life for our customers by building new offerings to deliver and secure our customers digital experiences. We are also telling our story differently: moving from product to positioning a portfolio of solutions and making great customer experiences possible. Over 400 million websites and forty-nine of the Fortune 50 are betting on F5!

The Portfolio Go-To-Market (GTM) team translates the company’s vision, roadmap, objectives, market opportunities, and portfolio of offerings into a cohesive narrative that is audience-centric. We drive the Go-To-Market strategy, looking left-to-right across the company to determine what message, lands where, when, and to whom for the greatest conversion to revenue. We are looking for a Program Manager to lead our overall Adaptive Apps GTM. This is a highly visible role that works with leaders across Global Marketing and Customer Experience, Product Marketing, Sales, and Partner/Channel organizations to drive the operating model for consistent and repeatable delivery of stories, content, marketing execution and sales enablement, ensuring we deliver against our strategic priorities.

The ideal candidate exhibits our F5 cultural values and elevates our collective bar in being collaborative, customer obsessed, inclusive, and results-driven to:

• Build and manage the Adaptive Apps launch and sustain plan, including identifying who needs this output and when and defining accountabilities


• Lead creation and delivery of the Launch and “always on” GTM Content BOM (for sales, web teams, & campaigns) from the PMM source docs, establishing workback plans and agile execution, and maintaining x-stakeholder systems of record


• Work in close partnership with the Adaptive Apps PMM; identifies when the roadmap must evolve given moments in time, and establishes the workback plans to deliver on time


• Design programs and/or campaigns for driving goals around awareness/mindshare and adoption, with support of field marketing


• Create internal Adaptive Apps Playbook for how, where, and when to use the artifacts and messaging. 


• Responsible for upholding F5’s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.

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.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to organize a list of open deliverables, issues, gaps, risks.


• Must have the personal skills necessary to lead, collaborate, and motivate.


• Strong written, verbal, presentation, and analytic skills.


• Executive maturity and presence.


• Demonstrated success managing complex projects from start to finish.


• Ability to thrive in an unstructured environment with minimal supervision.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Marketing, Business Administration, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent.


• Experience in large software companies a plus.


• Experience as an Agile Coach or Scrum master a plus


• Product marketing or consulting experience a plus.

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 the ability to travel via automobile or airplane, approximately 10% of the time spent traveling.

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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.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Yello/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. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request.