Sr Product Manager

Position Summary

The Senior Product Manager will drive product management for F5's Web Application Firewall (WAF) capabilities across modern application environments, including containerized and cloud-native architectures built on Nginx, Envoy, and Kubernetes. This role requires strong technical depth in application security, hands-on familiarity with modern proxy and service mesh technologies, and working knowledge of AI/agentic application architectures to help shape F5's approach to AI workload protection. The Senior PM will partner closely with architecture PMs, engineering, and go-to-market teams to deliver features that keep F5's WAAP portfolio ahead of an evolving threat and technology landscape.

Primary Responsibilities

Product Delivery

• Own product management activities for WAF capabilities spanning modern app environments (Nginx, Envoy, Kubernetes/container-based deployments)
• Define and prioritize requirements for extending WAF protections to AI-driven and agentic application workloads
• Contribute to technical marketing content — reference architectures, solution briefs, and customer case studies — to drive product awareness
• Support web content, whitepapers, and product demonstrations that drive customer adoption in partnership with product and technical marketing
• Drive adoption of new WAF and AI workload protection capabilities through customer enablement, sales/partner readiness, and structured adoption tracking
• Track and report on product and business performance, bringing data-backed insights to business reviews

Customer Engagement & Feedback

• Engage directly with customers to understand their security goals, technical constraints, and requirements for protecting modern and AI-powered applications
• Translate customer feedback into prioritized backlog items based on business value and technical feasibility

Market Analysis

• Monitor competitive and market developments in Kubernetes, cloud-native application/API security (WAAP) and AI workload protection
• Validate demand and usage patterns to inform roadmap decisions
• Stay current on developments in cloud-native application delivery, service mesh, and AI agent architectures

Team Collaboration

• Partner with engineering to translate requirements into well-scoped product backlog items and support seamless rollouts
• Build strong working relationships across engineering, sales, marketing, and customer support
• Collaborate with Principal PMs and senior stakeholders on portfolio-level prioritization decisions
• Work with marketing and sales to support smooth product delivery and go-to-market execution

Technical Skills

• Hands-on experience with networking/cybersecurity products such as firewalls, proxies, or WAFs, and core networking concepts
• Working knowledge of modern app infrastructure: Nginx, Envoy, Kubernetes, and container/cloud-native environments
• Familiarity with AI tooling and agentic application architectures, with the ability to reason about associated security risks and workload protection needs
• Understanding of SaaS security services and delivery models

Stakeholder Management

• Strong communication, negotiation, and influencing skills
• Ability to manage expectations across diverse stakeholder groups
• Comfortable operating with a data-driven approach in a fast-paced, changing environment

Analytical Skills

• Strong business analysis skills, with the ability to translate raw data into clear, actionable product and business insights
• Proficient in building metrics, dashboards, and reports using AI-powered analytics tools, in addition to traditional BI platforms (e.g., Excel, Tableau, Power BI, SQL)
• Able to define and track KPIs that measure product adoption, usage, and business impact
• Working knowledge of data analytics to support decision-making
• Awareness of emerging technology trends and their potential impact on F5's business

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in a relevant field
• Networking & cybersecurity technical background required
• 5+ years in technical product management or a related domain
• 3+ years of product management experience in cybersecurity
• Exposure to cloud-native application environments (containers, Kubernetes, service mesh, microservices) and/or AI application architectures strongly preferred
• Demonstrated experience building business metrics and reports using AI-powered analytics tools, moving beyond traditional BI platforms (e.g., Excel, Tableau, Power BI, SQL) to leverage AI-assisted data analysis and reporting

Pay

The annual base pay for this position is $177,600.00 - $266,400.00. 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. You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits.

Benefits

More details about F5's benefits can be found at: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits. F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.