Principal Enterprise Risk Manager

Job Description

The Principal ERM Risk Manager at F5 is responsible for generating strategic risk guidance on existing and emerging risks aligned to major business activities. Key responsibilities include ensuring risk considerations are embedded into high-stakes decision-making processes, operating in tools like ServiceNow, Jira, and Aha to streamline risk workflows and reporting processes, leveraging AI and machine learning to monitor, predict, and proactively address emerging risk patterns and trends, analyzing and aggregating risk data from across functions to generate actionable insights, defining metrics and dashboards that give real-time insights into enterprise risk health, recommending process and control improvements to enhance risk mitigation, efficiency, and quality, managing risk issue activities, providing guidance on control design, documentation, and automation opportunities during process mapping, supporting senior leaders on projects and strategic initiatives with risk-related decisions, building relationships with senior leaders and stakeholders to strengthen risk culture, and challenging process and business owners on remediation plans to ensure adequacy of actions.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of risk management principles, particularly in the context of M&A activities, strategic partnerships, technology deployments, and market expansions.
• Expertise in identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks associated with third-party vendor relationships and emerging technologies like SaaS platforms.
• Proficiency in analyzing and synthesizing risk data from multiple functions to produce actionable insights and strategic guidance.
• Advanced knowledge and practical experience with risk management tools, such as ServiceNow, Jira, and Aha, for streamlining risk workflows and reporting.
• Familiarity with leveraging AI and machine learning for monitoring, predicting, and addressing emerging risks and trends.
• Strong collaboration skills, including the ability to work effectively with IT, cybersecurity teams, and senior leadership to align risk management strategies.
• Exceptional communication and facilitation skills to lead discussions with stakeholders on emerging risks and embed risk considerations into decision-making processes.
• Strong business acumen and understanding of market, competitive, and macroeconomic factors impacting risk strategies.
• Experience implementing and managing enterprise tools for workflow and risk reporting.
• Practical experience in leveraging AI and machine learning in a risk oversight context is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across technical and operational functions, particularly with IT and cybersecurity teams.
• Prominent knowledge of emerging risks in technology, especially SaaS platforms, product innovation, and cybersecurity.
• Experience advising leadership teams on risk considerations in transformative business contexts such as M&A and market operations.

Salary Range

The annual base pay for this position is: $147,200.00 - $220,800.00. 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.