Sr Director, Product Management
F5
- Seattle, WA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Set long term business goals, build annual product plans and delineate business priorities.
- Formulate product strategy and roadmap that delivers on F5 mission and business objectives.
- Prioritize product investments, frame roadmap and set the execution sequence with transparency and rigor.
- Engage in primary customer research to bring the market insights and that define product direction.
- Work closely with sales to identify growth opportunities and execute product and GTM initiatives to drive execution against annual plan.
- Represent product are in quarterly product business reviews, articulating the state of the business and framing initiatives to drive growth.
- Work closely with engineering leaders to define execution priorities against goals and support with business context and trade offs to optimize product delivery against business objectives.
- Engage with customers to drive adoption of products.
- Collaborate closely with cross functional stakeholders across marketing, support, manufacturing and commercial models to clearly articulate dependencies and enable aligned execution.
- Define quarterly business plans, working closely with General Manager and drive to achieve business results.
- Set product vision and direction and articulate the strategy, in line with broader F5 strategy.
- Lead the team in building product roadmap and drive product execution to deliver differentiated products.
- Collaborate with cross functional leaders to deliver on product goals and fiscal objectives.
- Attract and grow industry leading product management talent that excels in data driven decision making, business orientation, communication excellence and technical acumen.
- Represent product area in sales and customer facing forums, including conferences and industry events.
- Build a diverse, highly inclusive and collaborative team that takes pride in making each other successful.
- Coach, mentor and enable the success of a highly talented team of product managers and product owners.
- “Can do” attitude and passion to make customers and colleagues successful.
- Background and experience in systems and hardware.
- Leadership of appliance hardware and modular systems for data centers including consideration of customer value proposition, technology innovation and margin.
- Passion for leading teams and contributing to the career development of individuals.
- Ownership mindset with the natural inclinations to take challenges head on and deliver impact.
- Bias towards data driven decision making that incorporates analytical rigor and managerial judgment.
- Proven track record as a product manager leader or engineer leader with experience in B2B solutions.
- Demonstrated ability working across engineering, product management, release management, support etc.
- Ability to straddle across strategy, technical depth and execution in product delivery.
- Analytically minded. Strong bias towards data driven decision making mentality.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
- Solid understanding of networking, application delivery and application security concepts.
- Minimum of a Bachelors in engineering required. Graduate degree in, engineering or business is a plus.
- 10+ experience in product management, or engineering.