Job Description

Position Summary

Does the idea of being part of a hyper-growth start-up team peak your interest?  Do you get excited about the idea of building things from scratch that will touch millions of users daily?  How about being on the ground floor and building the next billion-dollar business?  Do you live and breathe cloud technology?

If you said “YES” to these questions, the F5 Cloud Services team wants to speak with you now about the next big step in your career as a Senior Product Manager (PM).  

The PM role in the F5 Cloud Services team is responsible for helping to drive product strategy and requirements for new cloud-based security and application services.  A PM must be the market expert listening to customer and prospect needs, analyzing market dynamics, and setting product direction. 

A PM manages the complete product lifecycle from definition and introduction to end-of-life. They must work collaboratively, driving strategic alignment within the organization, and have the ability to communicate effectively to both internal and external audiences. A PM develops requirements using a balance of future vision, near term opportunities, customer requirements, business acumen, and management of day-to-day product issues. The PM will engage with executives, business partners, channel, and end users. The position is dynamic and the individual must be comfortable with frequent multi-tasking among technical, business, strategic, marketing and planning activities.

Primary Responsibilities 

• Identify potential market segments and their profitability
• Responsible for market analyses, product/solutions requirements definition, and financial ROI analyses to guide strategic product roadmaps
• Identify and define routes to market and business models, including pricing & packaging
• Illustrate the vision and key phases of the product deliverables with targeted timeframes via the Roadmap
• Be the company’s thought leader and industry subject matter expert for your product 
• Engage customers and prospects to understand and meet their business objectives with F5 product solutions
• Create and maintain Market Requirement Documents (MRD) and Business Requirements Document (BRD) for product/service requirements based on market inputs such as: customer calls/visits, partners, trends, field feedback, services, win/loss analysis, competitive analysis, and other market opportunities
• Partner with marketing, engineering, services, sales, and customers to drive product direction for F5’s products, including Buy, Build, or Partner solution delivery.
• Create and deliver presentations tailored to the stakeholders and act as a key evangelist for F5 to the F5 product/solution set
• Create reports that track manage the Business Plan of the performance of assigned product(s) based on revenue, customers, market penetration, etc. 
• Perform other related duties as assigned
• Responsible for upholding F5’s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities 

• Strong customer orientation with the ability to listen, organize and champion key initiatives and projects for product development
• Strong written and oral communication skills, with ability to articulate complex technology clearly
• Flexible, self-motivated, team player
• Ability to work independently or lead others on projects
• Excellent leadership, negotiation & persuasion skills

• Duties are performed in a normal office environment while sitting at a desk or computer table.  
• Duties may require working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends).  
• Duties may require the ability to travel via automobile or airplane, approximately 10-25% of the time spent traveling.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in technical related field required, MBA a plus
• 3+ years of experience in product management or equivalent
• 3+ years relevant industry experience (enterprise networking, security, cloud service/products, IT operations)
• 2+ years analyzing products, customers and market dynamics a plus

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

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