Principal Product Manager, Cloud App Delivery

Primary Responsibilities

• Own all product management end-to-end of F5 Distributed Cloud Application Delivery offerings
• Manage the product launch process delivering technical decision maker and business decision maker content, envision a solution demo of new capabilities, price the new capabilities, and drive sales enablement efforts including making product orderable on the SaaS platform.
• Deliver web content, whitepapers, and demonstrations to drive customer adoption, and ensure technical marketing alignment with key partners
• Work with key decision makers in marketing and sales to ensure that the product is accurately communicated to the market
• Define technical roadmap and influence product direction for F5 Distributed Cloud’s Application Delivery capabilities
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, security, engineering, marketing, sales and other go-to-market teams
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior product managers
• Establish and uphold best practices in design, development, and go-to-market
• Independently identify risks, drive solutions, and communicate effectively with stakeholders

Required Qualifications

• Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; MBA desirable
• At least 5 years of experience in product management in the cloud networking and security industry
• At least 5 years’ of Application Delivery and Security product management
• Outstanding listener, great presenter, terrific interpersonal and communication skills with strong ability to influence people at all levels and in various functions
• Strong awareness of technology trends and potential influence on F5’s business
• Strong teaming skills: positive teammate, good team builder, experience to bring together diverse views
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically and analytically
• Ability to lead in a constantly evolving environment, manage multiple priorities and ambiguity
• Ability to converse with technical and business personnel fluently
• Proven deep expertise with modern L7 data plane technologies
• Prior experience working on Proxy/Load Balancer, CDN, API Gateway platforms
• Experience with globally distributed edge systems
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures
• Strong experience in networking and working with networking-focused companies or products

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven deep expertise with modern L7 data plane technologies
• Prior experience working on Proxy/Load Balancer, CDN, API Gateway platforms
• Experience with globally distributed edge systems
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures
• Strong experience in networking and working with networking-focused companies or products