Senior Product Manager

About the role

The Role
At F5, we seek a Senior Product Manager to join us on shaping the future of NGINX and its place within the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform. This role bridges the experience between F5 and NGINX, focusing on defining capabilities that enhance fleet management, security policy enforcement, observability, and automation. You will collaborate with engineering, design, security, and cross-functional teams to deliver solutions that meet the needs of DevOps, PlatformOps, SecOps, and NetOps teams managing NGINX at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct ongoing customer and market research to deeply understand the pain points of DevOps, PlatformOps, SecOps, and NetOps teams managing NGINX in production at scale, translating insights into prioritized product opportunities.
• Define Market-Viable capabilities, write PRDs, and set tactical strategies for the next generation of NGINX and NGINXaaS offerings, considering public cloud market trends, customer requirements, and the competitive landscape.
• Develop and maintain a clear, outcome-driven product roadmap in collaboration with engineering, design, and cross-functional stakeholders, balancing short-term customer needs with long-term platform strategy.
• Define and drive capabilities across key xOps pillars: Policy & Management, Analytics & Insights, Orchestration & Automation, and AI Assistants & Programmability.
• Partner with marketing and sales to position NGINXOne, NGINXaaS, and related xOps capabilities as key components of F5’s ADSP, crafting compelling narratives that resonate with DevOps engineers, platform operations leaders, and cloud-native audiences.
• Collaborate with Technical Product Managers and engineering to deliver solutions that are developer-centric, technically sound, and deployable across on-prem, cloud, Kubernetes, and SaaS environments.
• Ensure alignment with cloud-native ecosystems, including Kubernetes (NGINX Ingress Controller), Docker, Helm, CI/CD pipelines, and API gateway workflows.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the Director of Product Management, providing data-backed insights, competitive intelligence, and strategic recommendations.
• Define and monitor KPIs and success metrics — including adoption, fleet coverage, time-to-value, and security posture improvements — and iterate strategy based on product and customer data.
• Clearly communicate product strategy, customer outcomes, and roadmap priorities to diverse audiences, from engineering teams to executive stakeholders.

About You

• Strategic yet hands-on, capable of defining a vision while ensuring its execution through practical, well-scoped products and detailed roadmaps.
• Customer-obsessed and operationally empathetic — you've spent time with DevOps and platform teams and understand the real friction of managing infrastructure at scale.
• A natural connector who excels at collaborating across highly technical and non-technical teams, bringing stakeholders along on the journey without losing speed or focus.
• Security-aware, with an appreciation for how security and operations intersect — and why closing that gap matters for DevOps teams.
• Detail-oriented but adaptable, ready to shift priorities as customers’ needs or market signals evolve while still driving toward long-term platform goals.
• Team-oriented, energized by supporting and mentoring others while contributing to a culture of growth and excellence.
• Resilient, thriving in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and navigating complexity with a resourceful, solutions-first mindset.
• Passionate about building businesses, not just features — you own user metrics and optimize business performance metrics with equal rigor.