At F5, the business problem is to drive the vision and direction of BIG-IP LTM, and to create a culture that makes employees feel valued and successful, while also prioritizing a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.
Requirements
- Modeling with Excel
- Communications: Storylining and Storytelling in Powerpoint with Think-cell or 6-page narratives
- Deep structured interviews
- Experience with product management or equivalent
- 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
- Highly focused on execution and delivering high-quality, synthesized analysis
Responsibilities
- Produce product requirements and corresponding business cases for new or evolving BIG-IP products.
- Drive the execution of all processes in the product lifecycle, including product concept, make vs. buy analysis, design requirements, New Product Introduction (NPI), flagship product, cash cow, sunset, and End-of-Life (EOL)
- Maintain stewardship of the BIG-IP roadmap for LTM and related BIG-IP capabilities.
- 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)
- Formulate innovative use of F5 product functions and open-source software tools to solve operational problems faced by F5 Customers.
Other
- BA/BS degree in relevant field required, MBA a plus
- 5+ years of experience in product management or equivalent is a must
- Strong written and oral communication skills, with ability to articulate complex technology clearly
- Flexible, self-motivated, collaborative
- Ability to work independently or lead others on projects
