Principal HR Business Partner

Role Summary

The Principal Human Resources Business Partner (Principal HRBP) is a senior, individual-contributor role within People & Culture that serves as a strategic thought partner to executive leadership, typically at the EVP level. This role is designed to support enterprise-level transformation, providing deep expertise in organizational design, talent strategy, leadership effectiveness, and culture.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor to EVP-level leaders, providing counsel on organizational effectiveness, leadership dynamics, and workforce strategy.
• Translate business priorities into long-term people and talent strategies aligned to F5’s transformation agenda.
• Anticipate risks and opportunities by looking around corners, offering clear, data-informed recommendations to senior leaders.
• Lead enterprise-level organizational design efforts, including operating model changes, restructures, role clarity, and decision-rights.
• Partner with leaders through periods of significant change, ensuring clarity, alignment, and sustainable adoption.
• Diagnose systemic organizational issues and design solutions that improve speed, effectiveness, and talent outcomes.
• Shape talent strategy for critical roles and leadership populations, including talent density, succession, and pipeline health.
• Coach senior leaders on leadership effectiveness, performance, and navigating complexity.
• Partner with HR Centers of Excellence to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions.
• Use workforce data, business metrics, and external perspective to inform executive decision-making.
• Present insights and recommendations with executive-level clarity, including tradeoffs, risks, and expected outcomes.
• Champion F5 culture and leadership behaviors that support business strategy and values.
• Influence and mentor other HRBPs through thought leadership and modeling strong strategic partnership.
• Contribute to the evolution of People & Culture practices, frameworks, and ways of working.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• Typically 8+ years of progressive HR experience in complex, fast-changing environments.
• Demonstrated expertise in organizational design, talent strategy, and executive consulting.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to connect people strategy to business outcomes.
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders without formal authority.

Scope & Impact

Operates with enterprise-level scope, addressing the most complex, ambiguous, and high-risk people challenges. Influences outcomes across multiple functions or business units. Focuses on durable, transformational impact rather than transactional HR delivery.

Pay

The annual base pay for this position is: $160,000.00 - $240,000.00

Benefits

More details about F5’s benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits

Equal Employment Opportunity

F5 is committed to providing 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.