Sr Product Manager 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, Inc. seeks Sr Product Manager in Seattle, WA:

Job Duties: Define overall vision and strategy for a product / solution, including target customer persona, customer value proposition, and business objectives. Own Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), including product planning / concept definition, Minimum Viable Product (MVP) definition (when is an offering good enough for launch?), ongoing release strategy, and ultimately product retirement. Work with program management to drive the logistics of the PLM. Own creating and delivering against the business objectives for the product / solution. Define capabilities and requirements for product / solution to align with overall vision and strategy; create and maintain a Market Requirement Documents (MRD) or equivalent, including a plan of Record (POR)/Roadmap. Conduct market analyses and financial ROI analyses to inform product / solution roadmap and prioritize product backlog in collaboration with Sales, Marketing, Legal, Agile Product Owners, and many other stakeholders, drive decisions on backlog prioritization (e.g., customer expectations vs. engineering realities). Develop and deliver compelling product positioning with clear competitive differentiation and ROI to all audiences include executives, customers, partners, and analysts. In collaboration with Product Marketing, Sales, Corporate Marketing, Partners, and Customers, develop overall go-to-market strategy and plan, including packaging, pricing, and positioning. Create dashboards and metrics to monitor the performance of product / solution, based on pipeline, bookings, customers, etc. Build excitement for the overall F5 product strategy and portfolio and specific product / solution with customers, market analysts, and internal stakeholders with great communications, customer events, and external presentations. Have overall accountability for the success of the product and business, creating internal visibility and business analysis for QBR’s and business reviews. Telecommuting is an option. Some travel to F5 offices may be required.

Minimum Requirements: Master’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Engineering (any field), or closely related quantitative discipline, and two (2) years of experience in job offered or in any occupation in a related field, OR Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Engineering (any field), or closely related quantitative discipline, and five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in job offered or in any occupation in a related field.

Special Skill Requirements: (1) Advanced Routing Protocols; (2) L2/L3 VPN; (3) TCP/UDP; (4) HTTP/HTTPs; (5) Requirement Analysis; (6) Public Cloud; (7) Private Cloud; (8) Linux; (9) Version Control. Any suitable combination of education, training and experience is acceptable. Telecommuting is an option. Some travel to F5 offices may be required.

Salary: $214,074.00 - $240,998.00 per annum. Benefits: F5 offers competitive pay, 401k, and other benefits: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits. 

Submit a resume with references using the apply button on this posting or by email at: PeopleOps@f5.com at Req.# 21-2803.

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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.