Principal Product Manager, Cloud App Delivery

F5•San Jose, CA

10d•$213,100 - $319,700•Onsite

About The Position

This Principal Product Manager role is responsible for leading the design, development, and evolution of Application Delivery services powering F5 Distributed Cloud. This platform enables enterprises to deliver, scale, and operate Web, API and AI applications globally across edge and hybrid/multicloud environments. Responsible for guiding, augmenting and extending the reach of F5 Distributed Cloud’s Application Delivery offerings. The role requires an individual with strong leadership, partnering and analytical abilities, who can build a shared vision for F5’s Distributed Cloud direction; deliver Proxy, CDN, and API Gateway products on the F5 Distributed Cloud SaaS platform; help to build products from existing ideas; and help to develop new insights based on industry experience and contact with customers, prospects and partners. This is a highly strategic and hands-on role requiring deep expertise in SaaS platforms, networking and application delivery services, with strong influence across product, security, engineering, marketing, sales and other go-to-market teams.

Requirements

Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; MBA desirable
At least 5 years of experience in product management in the cloud networking and security industry
At least 5 years’ of Application Delivery and Security product management.
Outstanding listener, great presenter, terrific interpersonal and communication skills with strong ability to influence people at all levels and in various functions
Strong awareness of technology trends and potential influence on F5’s business
Strong teaming skills: positive teammate, good team builder, experience to bring together diverse views.
Demonstrated ability to think strategically and analytically
Ability to lead in a constantly evolving environment, manage multiple priorities and ambiguity
Ability to converse with technical and business personnel fluently
Experience developing relationships with suppliers and co-marketing partners highly desirable
Demonstrated ability to meet or beat assigned targets and delivery dates consistently

Nice To Haves

Proven deep expertise with modern L7 data plane technologies
Prior experience working on Proxy/Load Balancer, CDN, API Gateway platforms
Experience with globally distributed edge systems
Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures
Strong experience in networking and working with networking-focused companies or products

Responsibilities

Own all product management end-to-end of F5 Distributed Cloud Application Delivery offerings
Manage the product launch process delivering technical decision maker and business decision maker content, envision a solution demo of new capabilities, price the new capabilities, and drive sales enablement efforts including making product orderable on the SaaS platform.
Deliver web content, whitepapers, and demonstrations to drive customer adoption, and ensure technical marketing alignment with key partners
Work with key decision makers in marketing and sales to ensure that the product is accurately communicated to the market
Define technical roadmap and influence product direction for F5 Distributed Cloud’s Application Delivery capabilities
Collaborate cross-functionally with product, security, engineering, marketing, sales and other go-to-market teams.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior product managers
Establish and uphold best practices in design, development, and go-to-market
Independently identify risks, drive solutions, and communicate effectively with stakeholders