Senior Product Manager

Primary Responsibilities

• Design and effectively lead large scale products from concept to completion.
• Lead the roadmap development process for large-scale and complex products; provide the strategy and product direction, define features, business benefits, and prioritize deliverables for the end-to-end product lifecycle process.
• Design and conduct primary research and synthesize insights across multiple viewpoints to inform product direction and investment priorities.
• Participate in the development of the PM strategy and vision.
• Drive improvement by regularly reviewing PM practices and proactively identifying opportunities for positive, impactful change.
• Lead efforts to implement solutions, driving innovation.
• Ensure F5 is continuously adapting by aligning innovation with strategy; advocate through influence to try new ideas, and drive alignment on a common objective to put them into practice.
• Facilitate presentations regarding strategic direction, market analysis, research findings, product plans, and updates for both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels of the organization, including executive leadership.
• Proactively identify, address, and resolve existing and potential concerns.
• Conduct comparative analysis against competitors and anticipate industry trends, direction, and innovations.
• Critically review feedback from partners to build effective relationships, proactively identify potential impacts and/or opportunities and take appropriate action.
• Identify and implement changes to current product development procedures based on market research and industry trends.
• Drive financial (budget, contracts, etc.) discussions with Finance, BizOps, and Procurement. Manage financial product plan, including developing and tracking appropriate metrics.
• Lead integration of financial activities, including planning, forecasting, lifecycle analysis and operates with a mentality of P&L ownership

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Proficient with core networking technologies such as BGP, ECMP, BFD, Disaggregation, tunneling, routing, NAT, MPLS, etc.
• Proficient with security technologies such as Firewall, DDoS, CGNAT, IDS/IPS, IPsec, URL Filtering, DPI, etc.
• Proficient with traffic management technologies such as DNS Caching, GSLB, TCP/IP Optimization, Video Optimization, Traffic Steering, etc.
• Proficient with Kubernetes and adjacent cloud-native technologies and tools.
• Experience embedding AI capabilities into security products.
• Strong knowledge of using AI tools to perform routing work functions.
• Able to build & present end-to-end product demos.
• Strong customer orientation with the ability to listen, organize and champion key initiatives and projects for product development.
• Recognized leader in function with a demonstrated ability to achieve strategic goals. Is sought by others across organization for product management guidance and insight.
• Ability to coach and motivate large teams, and encourage the adoption of a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive culture.
• Able to provide vision and direction in an interrupt-driven, fast-paced, and diverse environment.
• Understand, manage, and cultivate a global mindset.
• Effectively drives and influences decision making with leaders internally and externally.
• A talent for visual, verbal, and written storytelling and communicating with clarity and precision, simplifying and presenting complex information in a concise format that is audience appropriate.
• Deep understanding of and ability to speak knowledgeably regarding financials, return on investment (ROI), etc. with key stakeholders, customers, and senior leadership.
• An analytical and empathetic mindset; understands the 'why' of user behavior. A knack for identifying patterns, trends, points of note, drawing meaningful conclusions, translating them into desired user outcomes and effectively building cross-organizational support for change.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in technical related field required, MBA a plus.
• 15+ years relevant industry experience (enterprise and/or service provider networking, security, traffic management, cloud services/products).
• 5+ years of experience in product management or equivalent.
• 5+ years analyzing products, customers and market dynamics a plus.