Director, Product Management - FedRamp at F5 Networks, Inc in Seattle, Washington

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 each individual can thrive.

F5 Distributed Cloud (F5XC) is F5’s SaaS Platform for App Security, App Delivery, App Networking, App Performance and App Management services. F5XC has innovated a consistent, cloud-native environment that can be deployed across multiple public clouds and edge sites — a distributed cloud platform. Within this SaaS-based offering, F5XC integrates a broad range of services that have normally been siloed across many point products and network or cloud providers. The solution is designed to provide a single way to view security, operations, and management components.

Job Summary:
We are looking for a Director Product of Management to drive compliance products, such as FedRAMP Moderate, FedRAMP High, IL5, PCI-DSS, SOC2, ISO27001 for the F5XC Platform, collaborate with engineers, architects, and key partners while driving multi-product architectural and executive alignment. You will be responsible for evaluating local, state, federal, and international government needs. This will require conversations with users, buyers, and partners, and industry leaders to establish a data-driven market perspective that will be translated to problem statements and user stories that can be brought into the software development cycle.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Your role will be to get Authorization to Operate (ATO) for FedRAMP Moderate, High and IL5 levels for F5 Distributed Cloud Platform.


• Your role will be to define and drive execution of features and capabilities that will satisfy local, state, federal, and international government needs.


• Your role will be to define pricing, packaging for Federal, local, state, and international government needs.


• Your role will be to define operational aspects of the platform that satisfy Federal, local, state, and international government needs. Operational aspects include access controls, tools, support workflows, continuous monitoring. tools/processes, corporate requirements that satisfy the compliance standards.


• Your role will be to translate the compliance requirements into a technical requirements that engineering can understand and build. This is the most important requirement. You must be technical to understand SaaS platform, App Security, App Delivery and Cloud Networking inter-workings and map FedRAMP requirements to these products and for the SaaS Platform.


• You will be responsible for developing the product strategy that will lead to product growth, adoption, and continued success for F5 F5XC’s services & products in regulated markets.


• You will follow technology trends and work with your PM peers to find new opportunities and sell F5XC/F5 products to local, state, federal, and government organizations.


• You will align with your cross-functional team on the definition of success by defining, measuring, and tracking OKRs for every initiative. You’ll also define business metrics that provide a short and long-term measure of health and success.


• You will coordinate with the product marketing and marketing teams to create content that helps them position and sell F5XC/F5 products and services to existing, new, and future Gov customers.


• You will identify opportunities to support the business by reducing friction the sales team encounters when positioning and selling to our local, state, federal, and international government organizations.


•  Take these inputs, synthesize a clear product vision from them, then evangelize and consistently execute against that vision, in close collaboration with a cross functional group comprising engineering, operations, support, product, marketing, legal and finance.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience leading FedRAMP compliance activities, including DoD Impact Levels.


• Knowledge of compliance and security frameworks such as FedRAMP (Moderate, High, IL5, , SOC 2, NIST, PCI-DSS etc.).


• Highly Technical – can talk both with Sales, Auditors/Assessors, and Engineering, Software, Network, Sec-Ops and SRE.


• Working knowledge of privacy laws and regulations (e.g., CCPA and GDPR).


• Capable of strong individual contribution and influence across non-direct reporting teams.


• Proven track record of managing large-scale, complex, cross functional technical initiatives.


• Detail-oriented and able to understand the bigger picture by using your technical expertise and problem-solving abilities to prioritize and manage blocking issues.


• Knowledge of software product development and release cycles.


• Ability to ramp up quickly and learn new technologies with minimal lag time.


• SaaS and data management industry experience a plus.


• Ability to think strategically and execute tactically, providing timely progress/result reports to the right audiences.


• Excellent oral and written communication skills, good judgment and instincts. Ability to collaborate with and influence other teams to get things done, with diplomacy and without formal authority.


• Strong internal drive, a bias for action and ability to build internal champions across the organization.


• Duties may require the ability to travel via automobile or airplane, approximately 5% of the time spent traveling.

Qualifications

• BS degree in Engineering.


• 10+ years of experience in product management or equivalent.


• 10+ years of experience analyzing products, customers, and market dynamics.

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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.

The annual U.S. base pay range for this position is: $191,470.00 - $287,206.00

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 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.  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.