F5 is looking to drive the vision and direction of BIG-IP Portfolio to support AI Workloads, including new product introduction and partnerships for BIG-IP, and to address novel technical challenges with partners as part of a full solution (e.g., AI Data Delivery, AI Enterprise Firewall, Top of Rack hardware).
Requirements
- Modeling with Excel
- Communications: Storylining and Storytelling in Powerpoint or 6-page written narratives
- Deep structured interviews
Responsibilities
- Formulate innovative use of F5 product functions and open-source software tools to solve operational problems faced by F5 Customers.
- Develop timely market insights including competitive analysis and user insights for informed decision making to drive product strategies and ensure product market fit.
- Participate in product innovation projects and proof-of-concept initiatives, including research of product requirements to facilitate proactive maintenance and/or outage mitigation.
- Partner with marketing, engineering, services, sales, and customers to drive product direction for F5’s products, including Buy, Build, or Partner solution delivery.
- Independently lead large projects (individual or with cross-functional team) to develop a factbase and set of recommendations to provide into a strategic question or business problem (e.g., new product entry)
- Apply an 80/20 approach to create structured models leveraging data from across sources (e.g., Capital IQ, 3rd party analyst insights, survey data) for 1 & 5 year financial planning
- Use appropriate storylining and storytelling techniques to communicate recommendations or insights to an identified audience (e.g., the Board, the CEO or Executive Leadership team, Product Management leadership, or broad set of employees)
Other
- 7+ years of experience in product management or equivalent is a must
- Strong customer orientation with the ability to listen, organize and champion key initiatives and projects for product/solution development
- Experience identifying, evaluating and analyzing critical strategic questions and business situations
- Outstanding record of sound business judgment and advice to senior leaders
- Highly focused on execution and delivering high-quality, synthesized analysis
