F5 is looking to solve the problem of developing and directing the vision of BIG-IP Portfolio in Access, including SASE, ZTNA, Cryptography, and SSL-VPN, to drive business growth and improve customer experience
Requirements
- Experience in Product Management for Security products (e.g., WAF, ZTNA, SASE, Cryptography)
- Modeling with Excel
- Communications: Storylining and Storytelling in Powerpoint with Think-cell or 6-page narratives
- Deep structured interviews
- Ability to work with data from across sources (e.g., Capital IQ, 3rd party analyst insights, survey data)
- Knowledge of F5 product functions and open-source software tools
- Experience with product innovation projects and proof-of-concept initiatives
Responsibilities
- Independently lead large projects to develop a factbase and set of recommendations to provide into a strategic question or business problem
- Apply an 80/20 approach to create structured models leveraging data from across sources for 1 & 5 year financial planning
- 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
- Use appropriate storylining and storytelling techniques to communicate recommendations or insights to an identified audience
Other
- BA/BS degree in relevant field required, MBA a plus
- 5+ 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
- Outstanding record of sound business judgment and advice to senior leaders
- Ability to work independently or lead others on projects
- Excellent leadership, interpersonal & persuasion skills
